This blog is part of the Storytelling lessons from Harry Potter series. For part one, click here. For part two, click here.
It’s Harry Potter time here at The Editorial Department, and in honor of the release of the newest addition to the series, Harry Potter and The […]
This blog is part of a series. For part one, click here.
This week we’re talking about Harry Potter. No, not the much-anticipated book that’s releasing next week (although I, for one, already preordered it.) We’re talking about the books that started it all, and the lessons that authors can apply in their own Works In Progress.
It wasn’t so long ago that everyone was talking about The Boy Who Lived and his son, Albus, the main protagonist of the 2016 addition to the Harry Potter series. In anticipation of the (unexpected) new addition, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, we decided to re-read the entire series, all 3407 pages […]
There are three important elements of a novel. The story is only one of them. The other two are about connecting readers to that story: the cover, and the title.
Titles are a contentious subject for fiction writers; most publishing contracts have a clause stipulating that the author’s wishes will be […]
I was once involved in a near knockdown drag-out fight that began with my assertion that John Irving’s The World According to Garp was a great piece of “literature.” The wine-swilling MFA fiction writer seated across from me at the bar took […]
This is part of a series on fanfiction. For the first entry, click here.
So you’re a famous author. You’ve written a series that’s captured the imaginations of millions of readers. You have fan clubs, a movie deal, hordes of Twitter followers, and high six-figure royalty advances. Then along comes some upstart fan who hijacks […]
