by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
I actually groaned when I saw this was my chosen topic to write about today.The thing is, middles are insanely tough to write. Which is why for the first few years of my career, I wrote lots and lots of beginnings. Part of the problem is poorly fleshed out ideas, and...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
A reader e-mailed to ask: I have been writing this one story for a very long time. I wrote it out once and then tweaked it to death, so I started again, and now it’s under tweaked and depresses me to read, but I don’t want to risk killing it again. How do I find...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Okay, this is a really big topic and there’s lots of ways to go about it, so I thought I’d just start with some basics for now.Here are a few things that make a good opening:1. Writing a good first line, which we talked about last Thursday.2. You should almost always...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
A reader e-mailed me to ask: Sometimes I find myself borrowing from plots of other books. Is that bad? How do I stop that?In certain situations, yes, it’s bad. Plagiarizing is taken super seriously and can totally destroy careers. So, if you’re writing as a career,...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Next week we’ll talk about writing a good opening, but a good opening starts with a good opening line.The first line of your book is insanely important. Like, I cannot stress to you how important it is. It sets the attitude of the narrator, the mood of the scene,...
