Author: hannahfwhitten

-self-harm for magic use (cutting) -parental neglect/emotional abuse -mentions of physical symptoms that might be triggering to those with emetophobia -anxiety/panic attacks -parental death -gore -mild audio/visual hallucinations -religious abuse  

One of the things that it seems every single author has to address (and re-address...over and over...) in revision is the timeline of events. Keeping up with when things happen and how much time elapses between them is a headache in and of itself, but knowing how to convey that naturally in the narrative is [...]

I meant to write this MUCH earlier, and now Pitch Wars is upon us. Better late than never, right? To be honest, others have covered most of this ground. There are eight million blog posts telling you what to expect and, more importantly, what not to expect. There are success stories of agents and book [...]

If you read my How I Got My Agent post, you'll recall that the first draft of WOLF was, charitably, a mess. And that I pantsed the whole thing. I pants all first drafts, because it's mostly just me telling myself the story. Granted, I pay far too much attention to prose as I'm doing [...]

The topic of this post was decided, as all weighty decisions are made, in a Twitter poll. And to be honest, the entire reason I made the Twitter poll in the first place was because I wasn't sure how to write this post, and was hoping you would all just want me to link my [...]