Author of Young Adult Fiction
It’s percolating. That’s what I’m calling ‘working’ in this case. 🙂 In the drive through at Chick-Fil-A the other night, I was looking out through the windshield of my mini-van with my girls in the back singing songs and I remembered a quote that my …
When I started writing First Kiss(es) … I had an idea, a character, a problem and an ending. Oh yes, i had the ending. The question became though … as I wrote the beginning, the middle and ‘the end’ would the real ‘the end’ include …
Actually … 64,000 words so far … and counting … and climbing … to be edited, etc. 🙂 I’ve been wanting to write a YA romance for a while, but not under my more explicit pen name of Aimee Laine. So I came up with …
Most would think being able to tell a story using the word ‘I’ would be easy. I’m here to tell you it’s by far a greater challenge (to me) than writing 3rd person. For the last 4 days I have spent an hour or 2 …
No, that wasn’t hard math. 🙂 That was me, saying, which ‘person’ shall I write in? Well … most (not all, but most) Young Adult (YA) novels are written in the 1st person (that means that the narrator can say ‘I’ or ‘Me’). As Aimee …
As NaNoWriMo looms, you’ve already seen what my story will be about … but how did I come up with it? How will I write it? Those are questions that come up in every writer’s life and are asked by those wanting to write. Some …
This is a quick peek into my mind in the planning and preparation for writing First Kiss(es) which will begin on the dot, November 1, 2010 and end November 30, 2010 during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in which I am participating as my other …
Think about your local bookstore. There are sections for general literature, romance, fantasy, self-help, on-fiction … you name it, it’s there. Then, over in the back, there is ‘that kid section’ which, strangely has grown over the years to encompass thousands (or so it seems) …
I find it fun to learn why authors, writers, photographers, actors, actresses, use a pen name and why they chose the one they did. Yes, Emi J. Gayle is a pen name, made from three names. In fact (as my daughters like to say) the …
Don’t all awesome romances have epilogues? Well I love them, so here is mine to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of My teenage love story! Epilogue He left at the end of his senior year, headed to college, two-hours away. I joined him …
Read Part 1 or Part 2 of My teenage love story first …. I hung my head as a wave of remorse and embarrassment sent super-heated shivers down my spine. I hadn’t put one bit of thought into my actions, just walked to him with …
Read My Teenage Love Story Part 1 here. At my whispered announcement into my friends’ ears hours later, they started the second phase of their ‘just pick a guy’ plan. “Just go say ‘hi’,” became their new chorus. I shook my head at them every …
Want to read my embarrassing moment (at 14 years old) in meeting my now husband (of 16 years)? Here’s your chance! Enjoy! I Pick Him As the only girl in a group of eleven guys, a lot of eyes turned my way. The oboe doesn’t …
Hello! My Name is Emi J. Gayle! A first post for yet another writer-author-blogger, right? Yeah, probably, the key is I’m not just any ONE writer-author-blogger, I’m two! And there you go … huh? But that’s okay. Let me explain. So my alter-ego writer-author-blogger is …