by Jill Williamson | Nov 20, 2012 | Writing
by Jill Williamson & Mindy Starns ClarkSince I’ve been talking about mystery and suspense in my last few posts, I thought you all might find this list helpful. Like many other genres (fantasy, romance), there are many sub-genres that fall under the...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 16, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonWhen I wrote my mystery vs. suspense post on Tuesday, I tried to link to this post. Then I discovered that I never posted this post on Go Teen Writes. This was one of my last posts on my old Teenage Authors blog. So I decided to post it here for...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 13, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonI’ve done some research these past few weeks on this topic, and here’s what I found: Mystery novels make you think. Suspense novels make you sweat.But let’s look a bit closer at each.The Mystery NovelA mystery is a secret. A puzzle to...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 9, 2012 | Writing
By Jill WilliamsonI started writing my novel The New Recruit in 2004. I attended my first writer’s conference in 2005, where I learned that my writing needed a lot of work. Near the end of 2006, I was preparing to attend a large writer’s conference in the...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 6, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonThis thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard stones to meal;Slays kings, ruins town,And beats high mountains down.–J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit(Guess the answer in the comments...
