Purple Prose [02/16/11] 

  • Enriching Your Story

    As writers, our goal is to create stories with intricately woven layers that keep the reader on the edge of her seat. But how do you do that?In his non-fiction book, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (which I highly recommend), Donald Maass talks about the plot layer and the subplot. The plot layer is specific to the main charac…

  1. Interview with Zoë Marriott
  2. Review: Zel by Donna Jo Napoli
  3. Guest Post with Heather Dixon, author of Entwined
  4. Why I Always Forgive My Fairy Tales
  5. Review: Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli
  6. Watch This Instantly: California Split
  7. Streets of Fire
  8. Sundance: Catechism Cataclysm and Sound of My Voice
  9. Avatar makes people go KRAZY
  10. RIP Zelda Rubinstein