Daisy Whitney

Write yourself into a corner? Hah. Write yourself out of it!

January 19, 2010

Ever wondered what it’s like to write yourself into a corner? Neither have I! Because it’s technically impossible. You can always write yourself out of it. Here’s my video on that topic…

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Dara, January 19, 2010:

Great advice! Sometimes I don’t think I can write around it, but it IS fiction and it can always change

BTW, you have a great video presence–I’m always too scared to try vlogging.
Kimberly Franklin, January 19, 2010:

Daisy, how much do I love that you record your vlogs in the bathroom? So. Much. : )

Great advice! I’ve had this problem before and it took be forever to figure out that: DUH! These people are fake and whatever makes the most sense for the story I can MAKE happen. : )
Nisa, January 20, 2010:

Haha! Great advice delivered in such a cute way. It really is so true! The great thing about being a writer is how adaptable you get to be. I love that anything can happen!

About Daisy

By day, Daisy Whitney is a producer, on-air correspondent, podcaster and raconteur in the new media business.

At night, she writes novels for teens and is the author of The Mockingbirds, to be published by Little, Brown in November 2010. You can pre-order it on Amazon!

You can follow her blog on writing, reading and editing on this site where she swears her web designer only airbrushed her photos a teensy tiny bit. When Daisy's not inventing fictional high school worlds, she produces conferences for iMedia and provides strategy consulting to businesses on their online video presence and the online video marketplace.

As a reporter, Daisy covers new media for NBC’s KNTV, ABCNews.com, Beet.TV, MediaPost and others.

She is one of the first journalists to launch her own online newscast that covers the business of Internet video – the New Media Minute. Her work is regularly read and watched by executives across the television, cable, advertising and Internet businesses. She also hosts the top-ranked iTunes audio podcast “This Week in Media,” which you should totally subscribe to.

She LOVES talking about books, shoes, chocolate chip cookies and the world's most amazing dog, who happens to be named for a flower too, Violet (Daisy's dog).

Write yourself into a corner? Hah. Write yourself out of it!

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