by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 3, 2022 | Characters
We’re back! It has been a hectic couple of months at the Morrill household, full of summer camps, sports, and travel. Most of the summer camps on our schedule were for my kids, but I got in on the summer fun by being a speaker at the One Year Adventure Novel...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 25, 2022 | Writing
If you’ve been hanging around Go Teen Writers for very long, you’ve possibly noticed that summers look different around here. Our Instagram feed is pretty sparse, there’s no fresh content on Wednesdays, and we stop sending out weekly emails. (Unless...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 23, 2022 | 100-for-100
It’s that time of year! Summer break is coming (or is already upon us!) and that means it’s time for another 100-for-100 writing challenge! If you’ve been around Go Teen Writers for very long, you know this is a writing challenge we host most summers, and...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 4, 2022 | Description, Editing
Writing descriptions has never come naturally to me. My first drafts are very scant on any sort of description, and I have to work hard in edits to fill in those gaps. Stephen King has a great quote about description: “The key to good description begins with clear...
by Stephanie Morrill | Apr 27, 2022 | Characters
Ed Catmull is one of the founders of Pixar, and I really enjoyed his book, Creativity, Inc. about the history and inner workings of Pixar. I especially loved this insight he shared: “The definition of superb animation is that each character on the screen makes you...
