{"id":552,"date":"2010-04-03T06:56:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2010-04-03T06:57:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T12:57:47","slug":"there-are-no-rules-that-can%e2%80%99t-be-broken-writing-advice-from-marly-youmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booklifenow.com\/2010\/04\/there-are-no-rules-that-can%e2%80%99t-be-broken-writing-advice-from-marly-youmans\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are No Rules That Can\u2019t Be Broken: Writing Advice from Marly Youmans"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jeremy L. C. Jones <\/em><\/a>is a freelance writer, editor, and part-time professor.\u00a0 Jones is a frequent contributor to <\/em>Clarkesworld Magainze<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 He is also the director of <\/em>Shared Worlds<\/em><\/a>, a creative writing and world-building camp that he and <\/em>Jeff VanderMeer <\/em><\/a>designed in 2006.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n ——<\/strong><\/p>\n Marly Youmans<\/a>\u00a0is a poet and a fiction writer\u2026 and a poet and a fiction writer.\u00a0 Each time she switches between genres, Youmans proves the inexhaustibility of her imagination and creativity.\u00a0 (See Youmans\u2019 essay, \u201cLuck\u2019s Child,\u201d on page 302 of BookLife<\/em>.)<\/p>\n Youmans\u2019 fiction ranges from The Wolf Pit<\/em>, an award-winning Civil War novel, to Ingledove<\/em>, a young adult fantasy novel. In between fiction projects, she writes poetry, much of which has been collected in Claire<\/em> and the forthcoming The Throne of Psyche<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Youmans will spend much of her summer teaching creative writing at places such as Hollins College <\/a>and Shared Worlds<\/a>.\u00a0 Below, she talks about some of the best writing advice she has given, missed, and received.<\/p>\n