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Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel

Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)

Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes

Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

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I love the checklists, visuals, and character-first focus!

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Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel

Jessica Brody

An indispensable guide in the bestselling Save the Cat! story structure series that reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any young adult novel a success, from an accomplished novelist and the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel. In Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel, prolific author and story coach Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story structure guide for anyone who wants to write a young adult novel by applying the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of YA fiction. In this book, you will learn: • The fifteen "beats" (or plot points) that are necessary for crafting a successful story with a compelling character arc —including the Opening Image, Catalyst, Fun and Games, Bad Guys Close In, Dark Night of the Soul, and Finale • The ten universal story genres that will help you drill into what makes your type of story work, including those most commonly found in young adult novels like Rites of Passage, Superhero, Buddy Love, Institutionalized, and Golden Fleece • Quirky, original insights and writing tips like “Save the Cat,” the “Shard of Glass,” and the “Dark Night Epiphany,” that help you craft a story that will thrill and captivate teen readers Filled with practical advice, easy-to-follow templates, and "beat sheets" analyzing the structure of popular young adult novels such as Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, and Lois Lowry's The Giver, this book is the ultimate reference for anyone who's ever dreamed of writing their own young adult bestseller.

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Spent the weekend playing Stardew Valley and tending to my irl garden, what are your other hobbies outside of reading?

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Leather & Lark (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #2)

Brynne Weaver

Contract killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about his traumatic past. But when he botches a job for his boss’s biggest client, Lachlan knows he’ll never claw his way out of the underworld. At least, not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she’ll find a way to secure his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first. And they can’t stand each other. Indie singer-songwriter Lark is the sunshine and glitter that burns through every cloud and clings to every crevice that Lachlan Kane tries to hide inside. The surly older brother of her best friend’s soulmate, Lachlan thinks she’s just a privileged princess, but Lark has plenty of secrets hiding in the shadows of her bright light. With her formidable family in a tailspin and her best friend’s happiness on the line, she’s willing to make a vow to the man she’s determined to hate, no matter how tempting the broody assassin might be. As Lachlan and Lark navigate the dark world that binds them together, it becomes impossible to discern their fake marriage from a real one. But it’s not just familiar dangers that haunt them. There’s another phantom lurking on their doorstep. And this one has come for blood.

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What is your longest reading Streak?

I think mine is 100days ? Even tho some of those days where just 5pages, still proud of it, i think im at 56 atm :)

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Other Hobbies

Spent the weekend playing Stardew Valley and tending to my irl garden, what are your other hobbies outside of reading?

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Troubleshooting Your Novel: Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems

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I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Ann Liang

Snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters. Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class." It’s not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times: she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She'd never send them of course -- she'd rather die than hurt anyone's feelings -- but it's a relief to let loose on her power-hungry English teacher or a freeloading classmate taking credit for Sadie's work. All her most vehemently worded emails are directed at her infuriating cocaptain, Julius Gong, whose arrogance and competitive streak have irked Sadie since they were kids. "You're attention starved and self-obsessed and unbearably vain . . . I really hope your comb breaks and you run out of whatever expensive hair products you've been using to make your hair appear deceptively soft..." Sadie doesn't have to hold back in her emails, because nobody will ever read them... that is, until they're accidentally sent out. Overnight, Sadie’s carefully crafted, conflict-free life is turned upside down. It's her worst nightmare -- now everyone at school knows what she really thinks of them, and they're not afraid to tell her what they really think of her either. But amidst the chaos, there's one person growing to appreciate the "real" Sadie -- Julius, the only boy she's sworn to hate...

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I Hope This Doesn't Find You

Ann Liang

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Cherry Baby

Rainbow Rowell

Everybody knows that Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie... Almost nobody knows that he isn't coming home. Tom is the creator of Thursday--a semi-autobiographical webcomic, turned bestselling graphic novel, turned international phenomenon. Semi-autobiographical. That means there's a character in this movie based on Cherry... "Baby." Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby. Cherry never wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page--let alone on the big screen. But there's no getting away from it. Baby looks so much like Cherry that strangers recognize her at the grocery store. While her soon-to-be ex-husband is in Los Angeles getting rich and famous and being the Internet's latest boyfriend, Cherry is stuck in Omaha taking care of the dog he always wanted and the house they were going to raise a family in...and wondering who she's supposed to be without him. Cherry had promised to love Tom through thick and thin. She'd meant it. One night, Cherry decides to leave all her problems, including Tom's overgrown puppy, at home. She ventures out to see her favorite band play her favorite album...and someone recognizes her from across the room. Russ Sutton knew Cherry when she was a young art student with a fondness for pin-up dresses and patent leather heels. Before Tom. Russ knows Cherry. He likes Cherry. And best of all...he's never heard of Thursday.

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Change of Plans

Sarah Dessen

An S&S BFYR book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader!

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Office Romances

SPECIFICALLY recommendations for office (not just any workplace) romance. Bonus if it is in a legal office. Thanks!

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Troubleshooting Your Novel: Essential Techniques for Identifying and Solving Manuscript Problems

Steven James

Take your story to the next level of excellence! You've completed the first draft of your novel--now what? Chances are, it's not perfect...at least not yet. In order to increase your chances of getting a literary agent, selling your manuscript to a publisher, or garnering an audience for your self-published work, you need targeted, practical instruction on tackling the problem areas and weak spots in your story. You need Troubleshooting Your Novel. In this hand-on, easy-to-use guide, award-winning author Steven James provides helpful techniques and checklists, timesaving tricks of the trade, and hundreds of questions for manuscript analysis and revision. You'll learn how to: ADJUST elements of story progression, from causality, tension, and setbacks to plot twists, climaxes, and endings. DEVELOP authentic, riveting characters by exploring their attitudes, desires, beliefs, and more. LEARN narrative techniques for elements such as dialogue, flashbacks, suspense, voice, subtext, and flow. ENSURE reader engagement by aligning with their expectations, fulfilling promises, and instilling trust. CHECK issues with context and continuity. You owe your book more than just a polish and a proofread. Strengthen your story, prepare it for the marketplace, and make it the best it can be with Troubleshooting Your Novel.

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Office Romances

SPECIFICALLY recommendations for office (not just any workplace) romance. Bonus if it is in a legal office. Thanks!

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Office Romances

SPECIFICALLY recommendations for office (not just any workplace) romance. Bonus if it is in a legal office. Thanks!

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YA (NOT Murder) Mystery Rec Request

My sister tends to struggle with finding books she enjoys, but she recently started reading The Inheritance Games and said she likes that the plot is mystery-based but doesn’t revolve around a murder/crime. She said she wants more books that feel like escape rooms rather than full crime investigations, so I guess she likes lower stakes? In the past, she read A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder but it was a bit dark for her. She’s in high school, so she probably wouldn’t prefer lower YA or middle grade, but most of the mysteries I’ve read involve murder or dark themes that she’d prefer to avoid. I’m not super familiar with YA mysteries that aren’t fantasy as well, so I’m open to any recs that my sister might enjoy. Thanks in advance!

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Small font size and spacing

Sometimes, the font and spacing of a book really affects my focus. I would be enjoying a book but the tiny words will throw me off. Does that happen to you?

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Enjoying reread

How do you guys enjoy rereading?

This is may sound outrageous, but I never look forward to rereading my (fiction) books, which makes me feel guilty, it's such a waste of money to only read your books once in a lifetime. When I want to be reminded what happened from the previous book, I just jump ahead through the specific pages or not doing altogether. Brute forcing the 2nd book with no memory and hoping to remember anything as I go. Other times was for literary analysis given by my professor, so I need to read the text several times.

I've tried it, but the feeling of already knowing what happens in a book makes me feel like Phil from Groundhog Day in his 100th—or only god know how many—loop.

So, what kind of activities or techniques you guys did?

Sorry for my grammar (⁠ᗒ⁠ᗩ⁠ᗕ⁠) And I'm sorry if it sound idiotic

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Change of Plans

Sarah Dessen

An S&S BFYR book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader!

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