Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. Read things you like, read things you hate, and try to figure out what makes the difference. To be a good writer, you should read as much as possible. As far as how to develop your writing, there really is no shortcut. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. There are three tips that are my mainstays. “Original, sparkling bright, and layered with feeling…”-Sally Thorne, author of The Hating GameĪ romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.Īugustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction.
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