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The 8 Best Things About Writing Young Adult Paranormal Romance
You get to escape into a new world. You get to be a young adult again! Perpetually! You get to live an exciting, daring life without...
Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 22, 20241 min read
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9 Tricks About Adapting A Screenplay Into A Novel You Wish You Knew Before
Use the screenplay as the outline. Kick out those slug lines and turn them into sentences. Present tense? Past tense? First person, third...
Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 22, 20242 min read
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9 Solid Reasons To Avoid Adapting A Screenplay Into A Novel
You enjoy sending query letters, writing loglines and worrying about your synopsis. You like to spend $75 per script per contest every...
Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 22, 20241 min read
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The Slacker's Guide to Writing a Sweet Christmas Romance Novel
I'm a slacker. Really. Card-carrying. I have a DVD of Richard Linklater's film, Slacker, which he signed at the end of my internship at...
Amy Quick Parrish
Feb 21, 20243 min read
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