by Stephanie Morrill | Mar 16, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Story Middles
Last week, I shared the analogy of your story being like a canoe ride down a river. In the opening of your story, your character is paddling down a river they’ve traveled for a long time. This is their normal world. Out of the blue, they’re surprised by a...
by Stephanie Morrill | Mar 9, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Story Middles
Let’s imagine your story is like a river, and your main character is traveling down it in a canoe. When we meet your character on page one, they’ve been paddling the same way for a long time. Maybe they don’t like it, but it’s comfortable and seems safe. It’s gotten...
by Stephanie Morrill | Mar 2, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel
I had an email a few weeks ago from a writer named Taylor asking: “I am writing a story that I love, but I keep going off track and getting stuck at points . . . I don’t want to give up on my story. Do you have any advice to make the story more fun and...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 24, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Characters
I spent my weekend in charming Fredericksburg, Texas at the National Museum of the Pacific War honoring the Day of Remembrance. This day commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 in 1942, which authorized the government to put the Japanese Americans into...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 17, 2020 | Writing
Hi, writers! No fresh post today (well, technically this is, but it doesn’t really count) but here are two quick things I want to let you know about: If you missed it last Friday, Shan revealed the cover for Winter, White and Wicked. It’s fantastic, just...
