HeyJaredLit With Amy Makechnie
Good books, love stories, and creative inspiration from the author of The Unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair and other books for young people.
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Manifesting: Do Thoughts Really Attract Outcomes? (opens the original)
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Here’s the book my niners and I are reading:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="626.559065934066" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!frDx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.co
What Did You Read in 9th Grade? (opens the original)
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Hello my darlings and happy September from New Hampshire, where the leaves are beginning to turn red, orange, and yellow. Fall is such perfection.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="594.6666666666666" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!545Z!,w_1456,
Using a Character’s Memory to Drive Suspense (opens the original)
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“The moments that altered your life you remember at length and in detail. Your memory tells you a story. And it is a great storyteller” -Janet Burroway, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative CraftThe brain is wired to love stories. It also loves to be surprised, which is why we love suspense novels. One way to build suspense is using memory, a type of backstory, but much more slippery. For instance, what if there’s something wrong with the protagonist’s memory? What if she's unreliable for some
Great Books I Read August (opens the original)
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Here are some great books I read last month:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="896" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hHpC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2
Five Things So Lit (opens the original)
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Acadia National Park. National Parks are national treasures! After experiencing Yellowstone last year and Acadia1 last week, I feel even more passionately that we must protect this land, support and fund our beautiful parks. For our anniversary this year, we headed north to bike the old carriage trails in Acadia, which has a rich and fascinating history. In the
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