by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’m a list girl. I love being able to check something off my list, marking it as DONE.Something I asked a lot as I wrote my first couple manuscripts was, “When do I get to be done?” Because the process can feel never ending, can’t it?...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
A writer wrote to me and asked, “Is it really that difficult to be a published author? Do you have to pay for printing and such? What does being a published author entail exactly, and what sort of stuff do you have to do besides write what your agent wants or...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last Thursday, we talked about the internal and external of scenes. (Click here to see that post.)While each scene needs internal and external action, so does the overall story. The way to successfully do this is to examine your main character and give them an outer...
by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 31, 2010 | Uncategorized
This question has been covered here before (click here to see the original post), but I received an e-mail last week from a writer saying that it’s her number 1 dream to be published as a teenager, and she wanted to know if I had advice.Last time I talked about...
by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sometimes I read scenes in my manuscripts and think, “Um … no. Something isn’t working.”More times than not, the problem is that I’ve only written one “layer” of the scene.All scenes need to have an internal and an external....
