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Six Tips for Chapter One Success

Lyn Hawks · July 6, 2019 · 4 Comments

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How do you make sure people—readers, agents, editors—keep reading Chapter One of your Great American Novel? How do we get them to Chapter Two? After publishing three works of fiction and after writing (and discarding) several novels, I've figured out how to crack the code of … [Read more...] about Six Tips for Chapter One Success

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: agents, agents, chapter one, editing, fiction, first chapter, plot, six ways to success, YA

Four Ways to Feed Off Feedback

Lyn Hawks · July 4, 2019 · 2 Comments

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If you're like me, sometimes it's tough to process feedback on your writing in an effective way. Doesn't matter whether it's your writers' group, beta readers, reviewers, your agent, your editor—none of us humans are wired to welcome criticism. I talk through my formula for … [Read more...] about Four Ways to Feed Off Feedback

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: author, editing, feedback, Uncategorized, writing life, YA

How a Query Can Help You Write Your Novel

Lyn Hawks · January 21, 2018 · Leave a Comment

Query Right Workshop with Lyn Fairchild Hawks and Tara Lynne Groth

When I headed to the Chicago Writing Workshop to pitch agents, you can bet I brought my best boots, a big smile, and a query letter--polished to a high shine. Better than that, I had a complete manuscript. The complete manuscript came courtesy of years of hard work and several … [Read more...] about How a Query Can Help You Write Your Novel

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: agents, novel, query, query letter, query letters, query right, Tara Lynne Groth, YA, young adult

YA Wonders from This Year

Lyn Hawks · December 14, 2017 · Leave a Comment

I've read many amazing books this year! Find all the reviews at my Goodreads page. A Time to Dance (YA, MG): About pursuing artistic passion (dance) and losing a limb. My review at Teachers Workshop is here. A Wrinkle in Time (YA, MG): About love and hope and interstellar … [Read more...] about YA Wonders from This Year

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: YA, YA, young adult

Why Caleb, Now?

Lyn Hawks · May 16, 2017 · Leave a Comment

I just posted the first episodes of a new novel, CALEB IN MINOR KEY, at Radish Fiction, a place where writers post new works for free as well as for a small fee. I'm excited. But I'm also nervous. Caleb is biracial. Here's the book blurb: All Caleb wants to do is rule … [Read more...] about Why Caleb, Now?

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: #weneeddiversebooks, art, bias, Caleb in Minor Key, censorship, compassion, race, racism, Radish, risk-taking, white privilege, white privilege, whiteness, YA

There Was a Reason Prince Was Purple

Lyn Hawks · July 10, 2016 · 2 Comments

His Purple Highness, the Prince we all loved, rocked a color that is neither red nor blue. It's more than a royal shade; it's the perfect blend that holds all things. Masculine and feminine; hot and cool. Two distinct identities in a loving embrace. I had my own purple moment … [Read more...] about There Was a Reason Prince Was Purple

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: How Minerva Mae Christopoulos Set the Record Straight, LGBT, LGBTIQ, medicine, Minerva, Minerva Mae Christopoulos, Prince, Prince, purple, YA

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A writing process. Ha! Ask me every day what my pr A writing process. Ha! Ask me every day what my process is, because surely it’s changed. I do show up daily, and I have a new mantra. *Write into the relationships. Let people push on one another.* This has replaced STOP EXPLAINING; START CHASING. (Can you tell my character goal was kind of muddy? All caps hollering at myself does help.) The latest advice is about trusting the people I’ve created, whom I’ve gotten to know over a year, and understand their psychology and their interdependencies. Each person has their own goal and arc. They aren’t pawns to be moved in a game of plot. They are humans moving through the beats I’ve planned and making discoveries along the way.

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So excited for next week, and about the lesson on So excited for next week, and about the lesson on rhetoric and persuasive speech I just posted to Teachers Pay Teachers. It’s also a chance to explore media objectivity and bias as well as American history and women in politics. Content analysis and close reading, cooperative learning, Socratic discussion, and then multiple choice questions that help students get ready for standardized tests. All things to all people! If you know of an English or History teacher needing a lesson for next week, please point them to Success Story on Teachers Pay Teachers. On this historic occasion, there’s so much to celebrate!
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