by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
As a budding writer, when I was in classes and the instructor started talking about head-hopping and POV and such, I tuned out. I preferred writing in first person, and I didn’t think head-hopping rules applied to me.(These pictures have nothing to do with this...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m cringing as I type this, because I know with every word, I’m getting closer to showing you examples (the how-not-to-do-it variety) of head hopping. And they’re bad. Oh, so bad.We talked last Friday about writing scenes in “deep 3rd...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 28, 2011 | The Craft of Writing
As we talk about POV (point of view), you may whine. You may grumble. You may pull out your beloved copy of Sense and Sensibility and say, “But Jane head-hopped!” Or you may reference some book that sold gazillions of copies last year and say,...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Today I’m continuing my post on why the dandelion story was too small of an idea. On Monday, I said it was partially because everything I’d come up with was backstory. The part of the story I’d worked out was all stuff that happened before chapter...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Don’t forget – writing prompts are due this Wednesday. Click here for details.If you missed Friday’s post, pulled out a manuscript of mine from high school and identified what my problem areas were as a teenage writer.The manuscript is called...
