D.A. Reed

About Deborah Reed

D.A. Reed writes young adult novels—from page-turning thrillers to stories based on challenges children and adults face every day.

Then Came a Pandemic

By |2020-05-28T19:12:30-04:00May 28th, 2020|Categories: Tips & Tricks|Tags: , , |

All this time to sit around at home and…write. Right? (Picture me rolling my eyes…) Right. Loads of time to write – as my husband suddenly wants to purge the entire house and keeps coming up with projects for us both to do because he’s climbing the walls. As my children fight constantly because they are always, well…together.

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The Plot Thickens

By |2020-05-11T12:29:08-04:00April 29th, 2020|Categories: Tips & Tricks|Tags: , , , , |

If you are not moved to tears as you pen the death of a character you love, or some other tragedy befalls him or her, how can you expect the reader to care enough to shed tears? Likewise, if everything that happens is expected, well…the reader will find the plot and characters predictable and boring.

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