by Stephanie Morrill | May 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of my favorite openings to a TV series is the opening to Lost. My husband and I had been watching the promo commercials for the new series with great interest. (My interest was mostly, “How do they plan on making a years long show out of a plane...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Roseanna M. WhiteWhiteFire PublishingAsk an Editor So What Is It You Do?On my last post, someone asked a really great question–what is it, exactly, an editor at a publishing house does? There’s a whole slew of things, so I figured it would make a...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Stephanie MorrillOkay. I’m leaving on vacation today and therefore decided you all needed a 2,000 word blog post from me to tide you over.Kidding. What really happened is that I became frustrated with the “Steps to Writing a Novel” page that I had...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to the writers who placed in last round’s contest:First PlaceLaurie J. Curtis (received two votes)Second PlaceKarina VieyraRayna HuffmanThird PlaceSarah O.Jessica StarickaHonorable MentionsJessica Zelli (two votes for HM)MacKenzie PaulineJenna...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Stephanie MorrillA writer emailed me to ask, “I struggle with the amount of characters I have in my plot. Most of the time, I end up with too many. It makes it difficult to bring new important characters into the scenes. Is there a limit for the amount of...
