Want to write a novel? This book is the motivation you need! Part Writing guide and part memoir, this inspiring book from the author of Flipped and The Running Dream is like Bird by Bird for YA readers and writers.
You can read more about her work online at WendelinVanDraanen.com or follow her on Twitter, Tumblr, or Instagram at @WendelinVanD--or on Facebook: @SammyKeyesBooks..
She lives in Central California with her husband.
She is also the author of many beloved stand-alone novels, including Flipped, The Running Dream, Wild Bird , and The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones .
Her first Sammy Keyes mystery, Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief , won the coveted Edgar Award.
About author(s): WENDELIN VAN Draanen was a classroom teacher for many years before turning to Writing full-time.
Hope in the Mail is a wildly inspirational read for anyone with a story to share.
And she answers the age-old question Where do you get your ideas? by revealing how events in her own Life became the seeds of her best-loved novels.
But maybe even more helpful is the insight she provides into the persistence, and perseverance, it takes to live a productive, creative life.
This book is packed with practical advice on the craft: about how to create characters and plot a story that\'s exciting to read.
Wendelin shares what she\'s learned--about writing, life, and what it takes to live the Writing life.
And digging deep into fictional characters helped her understand the real people in her Life better as well.
Writing helped her sort out what she thought and felt and wanted.
Or, at least, saved her from a Life of bitterness and despair.
Wendelin Van Draanen didn\'t grow up wanting to be a writer, but thirty books later, she\'s convinced that Writing saved her life.
Want to write a novel? This book is the motivation you need! Part Writing guide and part memoir, this inspiring book from the author of Flipped and The Running Dream is like Bird by Bird for YA readers and writers
