by Stephanie Morrill | Jan 6, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Writing Life
Hello, writers! We are happy to be back to blogging after some time away in November and December. Blogging is a creative work, same as writing stories, and sometimes we need to pull away to recharge. A few highlights from my break: Focused writing time: I’m on...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 22, 2019 | Writing
If you’ve spent much time around Go Teen Writers, you know we value time spent actually writing. Not just talking about writing, thinking about writing, or planning to write, but actually writing. That’s what we want for ourselves during the rest of 2019,...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 18, 2019 | Antagonists, Book Proposals, Brainstorming, Characters, Mailbag, Synopsis
As I mentioned last Wednesday, this is our last week of blogging here on Go Teen Writers until January. This website is a labor of love for all three of us, and we need time away to learn and be creative without simultaneously producing content. “Nothing in...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 13, 2019 | Writing
Hey, writers! I promised Jill a month or so ago that I would host book club today, not realizing that I would instead have a ridiculous schedule that included taking my husband to the airport for a business trip and then doing all the kid-shuttling on my own. As you...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 11, 2019 | First Drafts, Plot, Scenes and Scene Structure
I touched on the idea of identifying your core story in my post about how to describe your story in a way that makes people want to read it, but I didn’t go into detail about what I meant or how to best use this tool. What do I mean by the core of your story? I...
