by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 27, 2021 | Guest Posts, Marketing
Jenneth Dyck is a dyslexic writer, illustrator, and designer who creates book covers professionally for indie authors and small press publishers. She is currently the senior graphic designer at Havok Publishing and resides outside of Washington D.C. She holds degrees...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 6, 2021 | Characters, Writing a Series
An excellent question was emailed to us by Rachel. She asked, “I know that if I’m writing a stand alone book my character should overcome her internal flaw or lie by the end, but since I’m planning a series should I create another flaw or lie for the...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 29, 2021 | Characters, Editing, First Drafts
I have a tendency to create overly large casts of characters. I never intend to do this, but I frequently have to spend time in edits pruning away needless people from my first drafts. One technique that has really helped me is to think through each character’s...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 22, 2021 | 100-for-100
We are blown away by the 50 finishers of the 2021 Go Teen Writers 100-for-100 writing challenge! Together they wrote for a combined 1,374,072 words! AMAZING! And I know there are many of you out there who made it through part of the challenge before stopping for a...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 1, 2021 | Brainstorming, Discovery Writing, First Drafts, Story Ideas
Story ideas come to us in all different ways. Sometimes our spark of a story idea is a character facing a dilemma or making a hard choice. Other times, we might have an idea for a world we want to explore. This is especially common with fantasy or science fiction...
