by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
I remember the first time I fell in love with a book from page one. It was Sarah Dessen’s This Lullaby. I had discovered I wanted to be a Young Adult writer, so I went to Borders to see what was going on in YA fiction. They had quite a few by this Sarah Dessen...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
We’ve spent some time now talking about brainstorming our ideas, our main character, our secondary characters, our antagonist, and our setting. (For a complete list of the posts in the writing process series, click here.)Almost all of this (for me, anyway) falls...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
After going through my out-of-control inbox, I discovered several of you had asked me questions about antagonists … and I completely spaced answering them. I’m so sorry!One writer e-mailed me and asked, “My protagonist and antagonist basically have...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Now that we have some basic bones for our story worked out, and idea of who our main and secondary characters are let’s talk about where our story takes place – the setting.Sometimes a certain plot dictates a setting. Like if you’re writing about a...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jan 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Your main character has a goal, and now you need to find someone who’s going to keep them from achieving that goal. An antagonist, a villain.Now, it’s possible that all your secondary characters will play the antagonist role at some point in the story....
