Angela Hunt on Remembering Your Reader’s Senses

by | Sep 23, 2014 | Uncategorized

by Stephanie MorrillAs I read Angela Hunt’s Writing Historical Fiction, I was struck by her advice: “Don’t be so caught up in relating dialogue and action that you forget to make your reader’s senses tingle.”Um, guilty. My first drafts...

Worldbuilding For a Historical – Gathering What You Need

by | Sep 22, 2014 | Uncategorized

by Stephanie MorrillStephanie writes young adult contemporary novels and is the creator of GoTeenWriters.com. Her novels include The Reinvention of Skylar Hoyt series (Revell) and the Ellie Sweet books (Playlist). You can connect with her on Facebook, Twitter,...

The Next Thing: Shan’s thoughts

by | Sep 19, 2014 | Writing

Shannon Dittemore is the author of the Angel Eyes trilogy. She has an overactive imagination and a passion for truth. Her lifelong journey to combine the two is responsible for a stint at Portland Bible College, performances with local theater companies, and a focus...

The First Thirty, a guest post from Marion Jensen

by | Sep 18, 2014 | Uncategorized

Marion Jensen is a mild-mannered instructional designer at American Express by day, but at night, he puts on a cape and writes superhero books. Books that will make you laugh, cry (but only because you’re laughing so hard), and then hopefully laugh some more. In...

Creating Creatures for Your Novel

by | Sep 17, 2014 | Writing

Jill Williamson is a chocolate loving, daydreaming, creator of kingdoms. She writes weird books for teens in lots of weird genres like, fantasy (Blood of Kings trilogy), science fiction (Replication), and dystopian (The Safe Lands trilogy). Find Jill...

Stephen King on What He Has

by | Sep 16, 2014 | Uncategorized

by Stephanie Morrill”Why do you write for teens?”I get asked that question a decent amount in interviews. By now, I should have a good answer for it, but the truth is that I don’t know. I can theorize that it has something to do with marrying my high...

How to Develop the Habit of Writing Everyday

by | Sep 15, 2014 | Uncategorized

Whether she’s building life-sized models of dinosaurs with her adopted family, trying her hand at cooking at a private retreat, living in a barn, taking a road trip across Europe or climbing mountains in Asia, author Aidyl Ewoh (aka Lydia Howe) seems to have...

A Message From McKenna Morrill to Her Fellow Writers

by | Sep 13, 2014 | Uncategorized

by Stephanie MorrillStephanie writes young adult contemporary novels and is the creator of GoTeenWriters.com. Her novels include The Reinvention of Skylar Hoyt series (Revell) and the Ellie Sweet books (Playlist). You can connect with her on Facebook, Twitter,...

Writer’s Block: Shan’s thoughts

by | Sep 12, 2014 | Writing

Shannon Dittemore is the author of the Angel Eyes trilogy. She has an overactive imagination and a passion for truth. Her lifelong journey to combine the two is responsible for a stint at Portland Bible College, performances with local theater companies, and a focus...