by Stephanie Morrill | Jun 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Stephanie MorrillToday I’m honored to have Sarah Holman back with us to celebrate the release of her third book, The Destiny of a Galaxy. Here’s a little bit of info about Sarah, in case you’ve missed her previous posts:Sarah Holman, a homeschool...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jun 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Stephanie MorrillWhen I saw what I’d noted on the calendar for myself, I groaned. Partly because this is a tendency I’ve just started noticing in my own writing, which means it’s a mistake I’m sure I made in the Skylar Hoyt series.And...
by Jill Williamson | Jun 5, 2012 | Writing
By Jill WilliamsonWhen you decide you’re going to try and pitch your novel to an editor or agent, the first thing you need to be ready to tell them is the genre. I struggled with genre when I first started out. I was writing for teens, I knew that much. But my...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jun 4, 2012 | Dialogue, Editing, The Craft of Writing
by Stephanie Morrill Today’s post is a revision of something I wrote around a year ago stating that said is considered to be invisible. In that post, I told you guys that in your dialogue, your characters should be saying stuff rather than exclaiming or...
by Jill Williamson | Jun 1, 2012 | Writing
By Jill WilliamsonI talked about describing characters last week. I wanted to expand on that a bit. Editors and writing instructors vary on their insistence that setting and characters be described fully. Some say leave it and let the reader imagine everything. Others...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of my favorite openings to a TV series is the opening to Lost. My husband and I had been watching the promo commercials for the new series with great interest. (My interest was mostly, “How do they plan on making a years long show out of a plane...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Roseanna M. WhiteWhiteFire PublishingAsk an Editor So What Is It You Do?On my last post, someone asked a really great question–what is it, exactly, an editor at a publishing house does? There’s a whole slew of things, so I figured it would make a...
by Jill Williamson | May 29, 2012 | Writing
By Jill WilliamsonSince today is John F. Kennedy’s birthday, in which he would have turned ninety-five years old, and since Stephen King recently released 11/22/63, a novel about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination, it got me thinking about...
by Stephanie Morrill | May 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Stephanie MorrillOkay. I’m leaving on vacation today and therefore decided you all needed a 2,000 word blog post from me to tide you over.Kidding. What really happened is that I became frustrated with the “Steps to Writing a Novel” page that I had...
by Jill Williamson | May 25, 2012 | Writing
By Jill WilliamsonI’m currently working on a dystopian novel in which the village my main characters live in was attacked and all of my characters lost loved ones.I know that this is a big deal, so I’ve been studying grief and how it affects people so that I can...
