by Stephanie Morrill | Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
The bulletin board is a semi-new tool for me in my writing.Typically, once I’ve written the blurby thing and figured out my basics, I have a couple items for my bulletin board. Sometimes it’s a picture from a magazine that looks like one of my characters....
by Stephanie Morrill | Jan 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Hope everyone had a great weekend!So far this year we’ve talked about gathering your ideas and determining if your idea is big enough. Today we’re going to get basic and make sure we have the five essential elements of a story. This can also be considered...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jan 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
First of all, today’s the last day to enter the writing prompt contest. Entries need to be e-mailed to me by 11:59pm Kansas City time. Click here for more details on the writing prompt contest.I talked on Wednesday about gathering ideas for your novel. One last...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jan 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
Today is the first official day of our “Write Now” program. For those who are just joining us, in 2011, I’m detailing the steps of writing a novel. As much as they can be detailed, anyway. Writing a novel isn’t a science, and every...
by Stephanie Morrill | Dec 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday when I talked about staying motivated with writing, or regaining motivation, something I mentioned was replenishing your inner artist. Something I do to replenish my inner artist is this: I wroodle.Oh man, this post is going to aggravate my...