An Invitation: Story Nerds Book Group (Holly Schindler)
In addition to being the administrator at YAOTL, I'm also the administrator of an MG blog, Smack Dab in the Middle. One of my fellow bloggers there, Bobbi Miller, have been discussing putting together a craft group. The whole idea is to make it a bit like a critique group but instead of trading manuscripts, we get together to talk about issues of craft. What we're reading. What we're thinking about. Better ways to build stories. Here's the post Bobbi wrote for Smack Dab. She said it all so eloquently, I wanted to paste it in here verbatim. If you'd like to join us, we'd love to have you. Please use the email Bobbi mentions below: Agatha Christie You may have noticed that we at Smack Dab are a bit nerdy when it comes to story. We love taking deep dives into those story bits – theme, language, world-building, points of view, scene types, tropes and tone – that make a story timeless. At the core of every story is character. Character drives the plot even as plot ...
