by Jill Williamson | Jan 16, 2024 | Brainstorming, Creativity, World Building
I had an amazing adventure visiting Japan over Christmas break. My husband, my son Luke, and I spent ten days exploring three cities. We visited three Nintendo stores, three theme parks, several Pokémon stores, and a bunch of other electronics stores, gaming stores,...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 19, 2022 | Brainstorming, Creativity, Fantasy, Setting, Speculative Fiction, World Building, Writing Tools
Before I get into today’s post, I want to let you know that we’re having a sale on the Go Teen Writers books to gear up for National Novel Writing Month. Both Write Your Novel and Edit Your Novel are on sale! You can get them for $2.99 each on Kindle or...
by Jill Williamson | Feb 7, 2018 | Writing
Jill Williamson is a chocolate loving, daydreaming, creator of kingdoms. She writes weird books in lots of weird genres like fantasy (Blood of Kings and Kinsman Chronicles), science fiction (Replication), and dystopian (The Safe Lands trilogy). She has a...
by Jill Williamson | Jan 17, 2018 | Writing
Jill Williamson is a chocolate loving, daydreaming, creator of kingdoms. She writes weird books in lots of weird genres like fantasy (Blood of Kings and Kinsman Chronicles), science fiction (Replication), and dystopian (The Safe Lands trilogy). She has a...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 25, 2014 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonI’m sure many of you have seen this picture. I promise this is the LAST you will see or hear of it, in 2014, anyway. Mwa ha ha!Today’s quote is for all you spec fiction writers out there. Brandon Sanderson, who is so adept at...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Stephanie MorrillStephanie writes young adult contemporary novels and is the creator of GoTeenWriters.com. Her novels include The Reinvention of Skylar Hoyt series (Revell) and the Ellie Sweet books (Playlist). You can connect with her on Facebook, Twitter,...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 7, 2024 | Writing
Hello, Go Teen Writers community. It’s with mixed feelings today that we tell you this is our last post on Go Teen Writers for the foreseeable future. Go Teen Writers has been around since 2010 and has always been a labor of love, but fourteen years is a very...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 15, 2023 | Guest Posts, Setting, World Building
Gillian Bronte Adams writes YA epic fantasy novels, including the award-winning Of Fire and Ash and The Songkeeper Chronicles. She loves strong coffee, desert hikes, and trying out new soup recipes on crisp fall nights. Her favorite books are the ones that make your...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 27, 2023 | First Drafts, Guest Posts
Gillian Bronte Adams writes YA epic fantasy novels, including the award-winning Of Fire and Ash and The Songkeeper Chronicles. She loves strong coffee, desert hikes, and trying out new soup recipes on crisp fall nights. Her favorite books are the ones that make your...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jul 25, 2023
Don’t Just Write A Novel, Grow An Author Back in 2018, Jill Williamson, Shannon Dittemore, and myself were captivated by this idea that we’re not just writing novels, we’re growing authors. We spent the whole year detailing our writing processes....
