Category: Coming-of-Age

• The F Words: The Fear of F

  

  In an earlier blog I wrote about The Power of F. But now I want to write about a subject that strikes me as very sad: the fear of F. Back in 2020, after City of Light offered me a publishing contract for The F Words, my editor and I discussed the title. Our first…

  Barbara Gregorich

  June 1, 2023

  Books, Coming-of-Age, Literature, Marketing, Novel, Social Justice, Story, The F Words, Title, Titles, Words, YA Fiction

  Books, Censorship, Fear of Words, Fiction, Literature, Story, The F Words, Titles, Writing, YA Fiction

• The F Words: Framing Device

  

  In literature, a framing device is a story that surrounds another story. That is, a novel begins with a story, and that story is interrupted by another story, told to completion. And after the inner story ends, the novel returns to the starting story and finishes that. Some examples of frame stories are Joseph Conrad’s…

  Barbara Gregorich

  March 15, 2023

  Books, Coming-of-Age, Ending, Literature, Novel, Novel, Social Justice, Story, Structure, The F Words, Writing, Writing Decisions, YA Fiction

  Books, Frames, Framing a Story, Literature, The F Words, Writing, Writing Decisions, YA Fiction

• The F Words: Following the F Words

  

  It stands to reason that, before I sat down to write a YA novel titled The F Words  — in which a teen who tags his high school wall with the F word is required to write two poems a week, each about a word that starts with the letter F — I would make…

  Barbara Gregorich

  December 15, 2022

  Books, Character, Cinquain, Coming-of-Age, First Novel, Forms, Free Verse, Literature, Novel, Novel, Poetry, Social Justice, Story, The F Words, Words, Writing Decisions, YA Fiction

  Books, Character, Literature, Poetry, The F Words, Writing Decisions, YA Fiction

• The F Words and She’s on First

  For the last year, as I’ve been marketing The F Words, I’ve often thought about She’s on First. I suppose that the immediate reason I think of the two books together is that they are, for me, both firsts. She’s on First is the first novel I published (1987.) And The F Words (2021) is…

  Barbara Gregorich

  March 15, 2022

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