Creative Writing Blog for Young Writers | One Year Adventure Novel

How to Make Your Critique Group Genuinely Helpful, Part 2

October 14, 2015
Daniel Schwabauer
Daniel's Writing Log, Giving and Receiving Critique, Writing Tips and Tools
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Daniel Schwabauer You must commit to being both honest and specific. Everyone in the group should understand this up front. You will be kind, but you will also tell the truth. A critique session is no place for white lies, however small.

How to Make Your Critique Group Genuinely Helpful

October 8, 2015
Daniel Schwabauer
Daniel's Writing Log, Giving and Receiving Critique, Writing Tips and Tools
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Daniel Schwabauer Why join—or start—a critique group? Critiquing is critical to the development of any writer. The problem, for many writers, is not unwillingness to critique, but lack of opportunity. Good critique groups can be hard to find. So how are you supposed to do all this critiquing without a group?

In Someone Else’s Shoes – Developing Empathy by Writing Stories

September 30, 2015
Student Contributor
Guest posts, Push Your Imagination, The Writing Life
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Rebecca Harrison, Guest Contributer Writers have an amazing and, I believe, unique opportunity to relate to and understand those around us. On a daily basis, we insert ourselves into the shoes of complete strangers, learning who they are, where they come from, why they do what they do.

4 Skills Novelists Can Learn from Journalists

September 22, 2015
Student Contributor
Guest posts, The Writing Life, Writing Tips and Tools
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Brynn Fitzsimmons, Guest Contributer Journalism caught me unawares. When an editor offered me a journalism job in my university’s communications department, I told him he was crazy. I am a novelist—a fantasy novelist. You do not get farther from journalism than that, right?

Story Coaching: A Student & Parent Review

September 17, 2015
Daniel Schwabauer
Giving and Receiving Critique, Homeschooling, Novel Submission, OYAN News, Parenting a Young Writer
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A review of Story Coaching by a student and her mother This week we announced a new 3-month track of Story Coaching! Holly, a One Year Adventure Novel student, and her mother, Angie, kindly agreed to share their thoughts on the pilot program we ran this summer, so you could get a feel for what Story Coaching is like. Hurry over to the Story Coaching page and apply—there are only 10 spots this fall!