Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice by Beth Revis

Paper Hearts, Volume 1: Some Writing Advice

by Beth Revis

Source: Books provided via NetGally. Thank you.

My Rating: 5 stars

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Summary:

Your enemy is the blank page. When it comes to writing, there's no wrong way to get words on paper. But it's not always easy to make the ink flow. Paper Hearts: Some Writing Advice won't make writing any simpler, but it may help spark your imagination and get your hands back on the keyboard.

Practical Advice Meets Real Experience

With information that takes you from common mistakes in grammar to detailed charts on story structure, Paper Hearts describes:

• How to Develop Character, Plot, and World
• What Common Advice You Should Ignore
• What Advice Actually Helps
• How to Develop a Novel
• The Basics of Grammar, Style, and Tone
• Four Practical Methods of Charting Story Structure
• How to Get Critiques and Revise Your Novel
• How to Deal with Failure
• And much more!

BONUS! More than 25 "What to do if" scenarios to help writers navigate problems in writing from a New York Times Bestselling author who's written more than 2 million words of fiction.

*****

 

Paper Hearts by Beth Revis is an amazing and helpful read for readers and writers alike. I, as a blogger, found this book very interesting because it gives you a deep view of the process of writing, and I found myself noticing things I didn’t notice before about the books I’m currently reading.

The first time I read Paper Hearts was via Wattpad. But when I found it on NetGally I discovered it has extra content and that was even better.

Paper Hearts for readers and bloggers: If you like to read about the writing process of your favorite authors, Paper Hearts shows you exactly how hard is to be a good author, so you learn to appreciate their work even more. It makes you notice mistakes some of them do. It gives you to tools you might need when trying to give the perfect rating.

Paper Hearts for writers: Beth Revis crafted a perfect lesson to improve your writing. Aspiring authors or published ones have the chance to learn SO MANY different things. Just by reading the first volume, you have all the tools you need to write a very solid first draft. Beth Revis explain perfectly various aspects like tense, voice, world-building, character development, etc, etc. Even I wanted to write a book as soon as I finished reading it. And the best is that Paper Heart is a very organized book with a fresh and light tone. It’s like a dear friend of you is encouraging you to write now.

I really enjoyed the first volume of the Paper Heart series and I highly recommend it to everyone. 

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What's New? A World Without You by Beth Revis

 

Beth Revis is one of my favorite authors out there. So, I’m dying to read her first contemporary book. It sounds so heartbreaking.

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Expected publication: July 19th 2016 by Razorbill

 

 

Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he’s actually attending The Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers."

At The Academy, Bo falls in love with Sofia, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Sofia helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age. 

But even the strength of their love isn’t enough to help Sofia escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that she's not actually dead. He believes that she's stuck somewhere in time — that he somehow left her in the past, and now it's his job to save her.  

Not since Ned Vizzini’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story has there been such a heartrending depiction of mental illness. In her first contemporary novel, Beth Revis guides readers through the mind of a young man struggling to process his grief as he fights his way through his delusions. As Bo becomes more and more determined to save Sofia, he has to decide whether to face his demons head-on, or succumb to a psychosis that will let him be with the girl he loves.

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What's new? The Body Electric by Beth Revis

 

I’m a huge fan of the Across the Universe series by Beth Revis, so, when I read about her new book I knew it’ll be amazing!

And so it seems!

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Expected publication:  October 2014

 

 

The future world is at peace.

Ella Shepherd has dedicated her life to using her unique gift—the ability to enter people’s dreams and memories using technology developed by her mother—to help others relive their happy memories.

But not all is at it seems.

Ella starts seeing impossible things—images of her dead father, warnings of who she cannot trust. Her government recruits her to spy on a rebel group, using her ability to experience—and influence—the memories of traitors. But the leader of the rebels claims they used to be in love—even though Ella’s never met him before in her life. Which can only mean one thing…

Someone’s altered her memory.

Ella’s gift is enough to overthrow a corrupt government or crush a growing rebel group. She is the key to stopping a war she didn’t even know was happening. But if someone else has been inside Ella’s head, she cannot trust her own memories, thoughts, or feelings.

So who can she trust?

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Shades of earth by Beth Revis

Shades of earth

Series: Across the universe #3

Author: Beth Revis

Pages: 369

Goodreads AVG Rating: 4.22

Summary:

Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience.

But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for. There are giant pterodactyl-like birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than their stone walls first let on. The biggest secret of all? Godspeed's former passengers aren't alone on this planet. And if they're going to stay, they'll have to fight.

Amy and Elder must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together. They will have to look inward to the very core of what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey yet. Because if the colony collapses? Then everything they have sacrificed--friends, family, life on Earth--will have been for nothing.

FUELED BY LIES. RULED BY CHAOS. ALMOST HOME.

 

 

10 Reasons why I loved Shades of earth

1.    The first chapter was awesomeness

2.    Even though Amy was always annoying and childish this time she finally grows up and starts thinking the way she must’ve since the beginning

3.    Elder was a great leader. So good, so strong.

4.    The writing was so wonderfully well describing. It was like being part of the world of Amy and Elder. I could understand everything I could practically pictured every little detail.

5.    The aliens. Oh man! It was unexpected. Though, sometimes I had that vague feeling of wisdom, I never thought it could be possible. And then, BANG! The WOW factor never disappointed.

6.    The language: Beth Revis always writes smart words, smart terms, smart phrases, and smart conversations. This time wasn’t the exception.  It felt like it was reading real words from someone that was there, in Centauri Earth!

7.    The mind-blowing action never stopped. Each chapter (like a good friend said) was like a mini cliffhanger. I enjoyed the double POVs and show the actions goes from Amy to Elder and the other way around.

8.    The characters. Like I said, I didn’t like Amy when I started this series, but all the losses, and the bad things that happened to her, makes her stronger, more mature and selfless. Elder was a lovely sweetheart like always, there’s nothing I don’t like about him! Kit, Amy’s parents, even Chris, I loved every old and new character in this book.

9.    The romance. Well, they never said the famous 3 words but it was damn cute! Of course, the romance was stronger and purer and sweeter on Elder’s side, but Amy’s feelings were obvious and as beautiful as his!

10.    THE DAMN FUCKING ENDING.
And this is how every series must to end. Just like Soul Screamers, TID, Dilirium, etc. There must be sacrifices, and losses, and and a lot of tears. An emotional rollercoaster. This is the kind of ending I, every reader deserve!!

 

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