Creating a Scene Breakdown

So if you liked the character chart thing, my guess is the Scene Breakdown Spreadsheet will rock your writing world too.I think I mentioned this last week, but the Scene Breakdown Spreadsheet (hereafter referred to as the SBS because I don’t want to keep typing...

Writing Your Synopsis

Today’s Monday, which means you have until 11:59 pm Kansas City time to get your 100-word entries into me. Click here if you don’t know what I’m talking about. I’ll be at my computer a lot of the morning, so if you’ve sent me an entry but...

Character Charts

Today’s post might not be a boat-floater for all of you. That’s cool. I understand that not everyone loves organizing like I do. To me, getting to organize writing stuff… Well, what could be better?So if you’re already rolling your eyes and...

Final thoughts on the first three chapters

For those who might be just joining us here on Go Teen Writers, this year we’re walking through the novel writing process. There’s a tab at the top called Write Now 2011 that has details and links to the post in the series. But basically, I’m going...

Kait — Oh! I absolutely LOVE it! I'm hooked. …

Kait — Oh! I absolutely LOVE it! I'm hooked. Please write more! I think these are great, Steph, because beside's all the amazing feedback — seriously, who else gets that? — we get some great story ideas from what we've written! 🙂