by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 21, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing, Scenes and Scene Structure
Let’s imagine that your manuscript as a garden. When you wrote your book, you put each seed in the soil where you imagine it should go. When finished, you took a break came back to a blooming garden (along with some weeds that somehow wound up in there!) The...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 14, 2020 | 100-for-100
We are super proud of everyone who signed up for this year’s 100-for-100 writing challenge. Just signing up for a writing challenge can take courage! Especially during a year of a global pandemic when many of us are facing extra uncertainty and stress. And these...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 7, 2020 | Writing
Today in the U.S. is Labor Day, a holiday that exists to mark the end of summer and give people a day off from their laboring. This year for our family, Labor Day marks the end of a looooooong weird season. The last day my kids went to school was March 12th, and they...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 4, 2020 | Editing, Guest Posts
Our guest today is McCall Hoyle! McCall is both a lovely writer and lovely human being. Because we had the same publisher and editor, I had the opportunity to hang out with her at two American Library Association conferences. And even though we’ve eaten several...
by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 31, 2020 | First Drafts, Go Teen Writers Books
Jill, Shannon, and I are so excited to tell you that we’ve been secretly working on a new Go Teen Writers book! This one is called Go Teen Writers: Write Your Novel and we wrote it with the beginning writer in mind. We know it’s hard to finish a first...
