by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Back when I was pre-published, I was convinced that while I didn’t have an abundance of confidence in my writing now, publication would fix that. Or maybe just having a literary agent. After all, an agent is an industry professional who reads tons and tons of...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
The combination of the time change here in America and a whirlwind trip to Chicago has me feeling a bit bleary eyed today. But I got to hang out with the beautiful, talented Jill Williamson, and that made for a great trip.This picture suggests that we did something...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
As a budding writer, when I was in classes and the instructor started talking about head-hopping and POV and such, I tuned out. I preferred writing in first person, and I didn’t think head-hopping rules applied to me.(These pictures have nothing to do with this...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m cringing as I type this, because I know with every word, I’m getting closer to showing you examples (the how-not-to-do-it variety) of head hopping. And they’re bad. Oh, so bad.We talked last Friday about writing scenes in “deep 3rd...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 28, 2011 | The Craft of Writing
As we talk about POV (point of view), you may whine. You may grumble. You may pull out your beloved copy of Sense and Sensibility and say, “But Jane head-hopped!” Or you may reference some book that sold gazillions of copies last year and say,...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
Today I’m continuing my post on why the dandelion story was too small of an idea. On Monday, I said it was partially because everything I’d come up with was backstory. The part of the story I’d worked out was all stuff that happened before chapter...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Don’t forget – writing prompts are due this Wednesday. Click here for details.If you missed Friday’s post, pulled out a manuscript of mine from high school and identified what my problem areas were as a teenage writer.The manuscript is called...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
From first grade on, getting published was my Ultimate Dream. That and marrying Joey McIntyre from New Kids on the Block.It seemed unrealistic to hope to get published in elementary school or junior high. But high school seemed reasonable. I was constantly writing...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m back home from my wine country research trip. I won’t force you to look through all 91 pictures or watch the dorky videos I took (“This is the neighborhood Jack could live in…”) but I’ll show a couple pictures and talk about...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
I love that you guys are so vocal about what you like and dislike on Go Teen Writers. For last round’s writing prompt contest, we mixed things up and I supplied the last sentence of your 100 words rather than the first. Many of you told me how much you liked...
