The Knitting Wordsmith

Time To Sleep

“Ouch.” “Sorry, no hugs for now.” “No, no. It’s a whole lot better than what I thought would happen. You know, waking up dead.”

And then they said…

“World-building can seem overwhelming. One trick is to avoid listing only large-scale details. Think of it like a camera; you want to zoom in and give readers specific details of your world.”

—Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning writer and author of the young adult novels Dealing in Dreams and The Education of Margot Sanchez, both from Simon & Schuster and available now in bookstores everywhere. Her work has appeared in Elle, Los Angeles Times, Tin House, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, to name a few. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles. Follow @lilliamr on Twitter.

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Quotable – John Dos Passos

An island is destroyed by a natural disaster. The only one who survives is the lighthouse keeper. Write it from the keeper’s POV as they try to find out what happened to everyone else.