by Jill Williamson | Apr 15, 2020 | Book Club Posts, Editing, First Drafts, Getting Feedback On Your Writing, Go Teen Writers Book Club, Learning from Other Authors, Scenes and Scene Structure, Story Structure, The Craft of Writing
This is our final blog post for the Go Teen Writers Book Club. Chapters 24 and 25 of Story Trumps Structure by Steven James were both so short, I decided to combine them into one post. If you didn’t yet read Chapter 25, go read it right now, then come back to the...
by Stephanie Morrill | Apr 13, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Dark Night of the Soul, Story Endings, Story Structure
If you celebrate Easter, I hope you had an enjoyable holiday! I’ve always really enjoyed celebrating Easter with church, family, and my kids dressed in cute spring clothes that it’s not quite warm enough for yet. I always enjoy the day … but the...
by Shannon Dittemore | Apr 10, 2020 | Author Life, Guest Posts, Learning from Other Authors
Good morning, friends! I have a fun surprise for you today. Author Kara Swanson stopped by for a visit. I meet Kara a few years back at a writing conference in Southern California. She’s a young writer with a lovely soul and a compelling life story. In this...
by Jill Williamson | Apr 8, 2020 | Book Club Posts, Characters, Go Teen Writers Book Club
Today on the Go Teen Writers Book Club, we’re discussing “Depth,” chapter twenty-three of Story Trumps Structure by Steven James. Chapter Recap:This week’s chapter was primarily about if, how, and how much your character changes over the course of the story. Mr. James...
by Stephanie Morrill | Apr 6, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Characters
One story element that often feels mushy in the middle of our books is our cast of characters. We sometimes are so focused on getting our main character down the river, we forget about the lives of all those side characters we set up in act one. Or we can have the...
by Shannon Dittemore | Apr 3, 2020 | Encouragement, Productivity, Writing, Writing Life
This is a strange season, is it not? We’re all holed up in our houses. Many of us are bored. Most of us are restless. And yet, it can be very challenging to focus long enough to get much writing done. If you weren’t doing your schooling at home prior to...
by Jill Williamson | Apr 1, 2020 | Book Club Posts, Characters, Go Teen Writers Book Club, Lists for Writers
Today on the Go Teen Writers Book Club, we’re discussing the chapter titled “Attitude,” which was chapter twenty-two of Story Trumps Structure by Steven James. Chapter Recap:I found it strange that this chapter was so close to the end of the book. I suppose it was so...
by Stephanie Morrill | Mar 30, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Story Middles, Story Structure, Writing
I took a break from the series last week because it seemed right to acknowledge that all of us have likely seen some kind of shift—great or small—in our lives with the pandemic going on. If you didn’t see Shan’s post on Friday, You Can Do The Next Thing,...
by Shannon Dittemore | Mar 27, 2020 | Encouragement, Goals, Writing, Writing Life
There’s an old poem with no title and an unknown author, and it opens like this: From an old English parsonage down by the seaThere came in the twilight a message to me;Its quaint Saxon legend, deeply engraven,Hath, it seems to me, teaching from Heaven.And on...
by Jill Williamson | Mar 25, 2020 | Guest Posts, Learning from Other Authors, Story Endings, Writing, Writing a Series
Today we have a guest post from former Go Teen Writer girl Taylor Bennett. The final book in Taylor’s Tradewinds series just released this month, and it’s currently free on Kindle Unlimited! If you’re new to Taylor and her books, you can start at the beginning of the...
