Please welcome Jessica Brody! I'll be giving away a copy of her new release UnRemembered to one lucky blog commenter.
What's your best advice for fellow writers?
Don’t be afraid to write badly.
Every first draft is crappy. But you can’t know what needs to be revised until
you finish that crappy first draft. So don’t let “fear of being bad” stop you
from writing. Just write. You can always fix it up and make it pretty later.
What popular writing advice do
you never follow?
The other day I saw a piece of writing advice from Stephen
King that said, “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong
word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Well, apparently there are
exceptions to this rule because I use the thesaurus all the time. It’s my
very best friend when I write. Mostly because my brain is mush and I can never
remember the word I’m trying to think of. So I think of a similar word and
thesaurus search until I find it.
Where do you do most of your
writing?
I find that I have a really hard time writing at home (too
many distractions!) so I have a few coffee shops/tea houses that I rotate
through and I write there.
What's the best book you've read
lately on the craft of writing?
It wasn’t recently that I read it but it’s by far my
favorite book: Save the Cat by Blake
Snyder. It saved my career! I actually teach the method now to fellow
novelists.
About The Book
The only thing worse than
forgetting her past...is remembering it.
When Freedom
Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected
to find a single survivor; which is why the sixteen-year-old girl discovered
floating amid the wreckage—alive—is making headlines across the globe.
She has no memories of boarding the plane. She has no memories of her life
before the crash. She has no memories…period. As she struggles to piece
together her forgotten past and discover who she really is, every clue raises
more questions. Her only hope is a strangely alluring boy who claims to know
her. Who claims they were in love. But can she really trust him? And will he be
able to protect her from the people who have been making her forget?
Set in a world where science knows no
boundaries and memories are manipulated UNREMEMBERED
by Jessica Brody is the first novel in a compelling, romantic, and suspenseful
new sci-fi trilogy for teens.
About The Author
Jessica Brody knew from a young age that she wanted to be a
writer. She started self “publishing” her own books when she was seven years
old, binding the pages together with cardboard, wallpaper samples and
electrical tape. She is the
author of 52 Reasons to Hate My Father, My Life Undecided, The
Karma Club, and now, Unremembered. Her
books have been translated and published in over 15 countries. She currently
splits her time between California and Colorado. www.jessicabrody.com
Please leave a comment to win a copy of the book!
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