The fear of too much dialogue

As we continue our conversation about pacing, which comes out of our conversation of writing fears, one of the questions raised was about the balance of dialogue and prose. How much dialogue is too much? How little is too little? And how do you know?!?Every writer...

Tips for writing good sentences

You’re worried I’m going to ask you to diagram your sentences, aren’t you?(Is that what it’s called when you label the parts of your sentences?) I’ve always found grammar lessons somewhat boring, so instead of labeling all our nouns...

Pacing and Description

When I asked on the Go Teen Writers Facebook group about writing fears, I expected things like, “That I’ll never get published” but I didn’t expect this response, “That I don’t have enough description, or that what I have...

Baby Steps

Baby StepsBy Stephanie MorrillWhat causes a sane person to get out of bed early on a Saturday morning and go run in the drizzly cold?This was the thought running through my head as my husband’s alarm went off at 5:45 a.m. On a Saturday. The one day a week that we have...