by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Oct 6, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, For the love of writing
When was the last time you walked through a meadow? Not a cut-lawn city park expanse, or your own back yard just before mowing, but an honest-to-goodness meadow? Last weekend I attended an intimate writer’s retreat at Prue’s House at Hilltop Park on...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Sep 8, 2014 | For the love of writing, Short stories
Warning: this story contains adult themes. While in no way graphic, the content is nonetheless appropriate only to readers eighteen and older. Thank you! I’m so excited to announce that this story appears in the September 2014 publication of GRAVEL magazine....
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Aug 18, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing
7 Techniques for Building (ahem) Conquering Teen Fears – The Back-To-School Edition School is often the mainstay milieu of YA and NA protagonists. Building story tension, we authors can freely add conflict upon conflict, but one emotional stake is shared among...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Aug 11, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts
The character who is an unreliable narrator can be one of the most powerful tools available to a writer, telling the readers a story that the reader cannot take at face value. In this post, Now Novel, an excellent resource for writers, explains: “The...
by raynelacko.com raynelacko.com | Jul 23, 2014 | For the love of writing
A month ago, my family moved from Orange County’s endless summer to a small(ish) island off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. It’s the beginning of summer, and the weather has been sunny and warm, so climate-wise, not much of a shift. But that’s...
