Tag Archive | books

How to Make Room for an MC’s Backstory

By izzy-grabs-life June 22, 2022 Leave a comment

What is the best advice you received or could give about including backstory?

7x7x7x7 Writing Challenge

By izzy-grabs-life August 31, 2015 3 Comments

Monday is the new Sunday, guys! . . . Well, not really—I just missed this Sunday challenge on Twitter (@WritingIzzy). Even so, I’m accepting it. BIG thanks to my fellow writers and mentee hopefuls @Married2ARod and @alannalp.

Speak Up! Friday Quotes (23)

By izzy-grabs-life August 28, 2015 7 Comments

A wonderful, and I do mean wonderful, beta reader of mine found out my main character was black in the later half of my first chapter. When she did, she strongly suggested that I make my MC’s race clearer from the beginning (to “show her skin color” and “describe her neighborhood”)—because this beta had pictured someone who looked […]

THAT MOMENT WHEN THURSDAYS (17)

By izzy-grabs-life August 20, 2015 15 Comments

…you’ve been gone for too long. For starters, my name’s Isabelle, but please feel free to call me Izzy (or if you know me on AgentQuery Connect, VitaCoco — based on my favorite coconut water ^_^ ). I’m a YA suspense/contemporary writer who got caught up in the scrambles of life and neglected her blogging family. Yes!

Izzy May I: The Write Open Ending

By izzy-grabs-life June 8, 2015 8 Comments

Simple question. Novels with open endings, Do you love them or hate them? ~*~

THAT MOMENT WHEN THURSDAYS (16)

By izzy-grabs-life May 28, 2015 6 Comments

This is my Thursday feature combined with The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “A Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma”: Tell us something most people probably don’t know about you.

Izzy May I: The Write Element

By izzy-grabs-life May 25, 2015 Leave a comment

Also in response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Fill In the Blank.” Three people walk into a bar . . . and have a deep conversation with yours truly. We’ve talked about what makes an effective book cover, to us, in this post. But the conversation didn’t tip all the way over to what we’d like for our own book covers.

THAT MOMENT WHEN THURSDAYS (15)

By izzy-grabs-life May 21, 2015 1 Comment

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Linger.” Tell us about times in which you linger ~*~ That moment when you bond over literary favorites from your tween years. Did you used to read R. L. Stine, too?? Here’s a reblog that brought back memories. Thank you so much, Traveling with T. You’re awesome!