by SCBWI Western Washington
SCBWI Montana invites everyone to participate in their upcoming webinar with author and writing teacher, Darcy Pattison. Darcy has helped whip many an SCBWI WWA writer's manuscripts into shape at past events (Novel Metamorphosis FTW!), so we're excited about another opportunity to learn with her. Learn to see the overall structure of your novel with simple... Continue Reading →
Darcy Pattison has taught her Novel Revision retreat locally, and thought we might be interested in her Master Class in Novel Writing that she's teaching at Highlights Foundation this summer. Writing teacher Darcy Pattison will be teaching a Master Class in Novel Writing at the Highlights Foundation on June 14-16, 2016. Pattison says, “In every... Continue Reading →
Great information, passed along by Joni Sensel: Darcy Pattison is going to be teaching a Master Class in Novel Writing next summer at Highlights Foundation. In order to attend, writers must be published or have attended one of my novel revision classes. For this first time, the topics are plot and point of view. I'm... Continue Reading →
It may be in the future, but there are ONLY THREE SPACES LEFT in Darcy Pattison's Novel Revision Retreat, which takes place June 6-8, 2014, in Tacoma. Darcy is the author of Novel Metamorphosis, and has been a teacher at our own WWA retreat not once, but twice. For information on the retreat, which comes... Continue Reading →
Check out Darcy Pattison's new book trailer for PRARIE STORMS, a nonfiction picture book about how animals survive the storms on the prairies.This new video is an example of a YouTube Aesthetic Book Trailer, an informal, humorous video that only addresses the content of the book tangentially, but nevertheless, creates interest. The humor is meant... Continue Reading →
A great post on Darcy Pattison's blog Fiction Notes. It's about how to create a book trailer and also celebrates the second launch of WRITING YOUNG ADULT FICTION FOR DUMMIES. A great link to check out. Thanks to Laurie for sending the link!!
Darcy Pattison has a longish post on the art of the epiphany--that moment in a story where your character reveals something vital. Here's the top: “And then, it suddenly dawned on her.” That phrase is the ultimate cliche for a character epiphany. The term epiphany was originally a religious term referring to the physical... Continue Reading →
Darcy Pattison has a series up about sympathetic characters (and good villains). Here's the first part of the one on what makes characters sympathetic--something you need to do to keep readers engaged:Help Your Readers Identify with Your Characters. We tend to identify with characters who are like us in some way. They play certain roles... Continue Reading →
If you've taken a class with Darcy Pattison, you know she gives great advice. The author of 19 GIRLS AND ME and two picture books about Oliver K. Woodman explains here why--and how--to make a dummy.Why Make a Dummy?Picture books combine text and words in a short 32 page book. The structure is so unusual,... Continue Reading →
Darcy Pattison wrote a second post on how narrative arcs work in picture books. Understanding this is essential if you want to tell a story in this incredibly compressed format:Very simple picture books still have a narrative arc, even though the word count is extremely small. Yesterday, we looked at an example of a great... Continue Reading →
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