by Stephanie Morrill | Jan 13, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel
So, you’ve identified your time and place where you’ll write. If you’re really lucky, that place has a door that others respect when it’s closed. Or maybe you write better with people around you, like at a coffee house or your kitchen table. Wherever you are, it’s...
by Shannon Dittemore | Jan 10, 2020 | Characters, Mailbag
Welcome back, friends! Since we’re back from the holiday break we’ve got several things going on. Steph’s got a new series up and running that focuses on finishing your novel, while Jill has picked right up where she left off with the Go Teen Writers...
by Jill Williamson | Jan 8, 2020 | Book Club Posts, Go Teen Writers Book Club, Scenes and Scene Structure
Now that Christmas break is over, the Go Teen Writers Book Club is back! Today we are discussing Chapter Twelve: Scenes. Chapter Recap: In this chapter, Mr. James discusses scenes. He tells us that scenes are not the same as chapters. They might be longer than a...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jan 6, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Writing Life
Hello, writers! We are happy to be back to blogging after some time away in November and December. Blogging is a creative work, same as writing stories, and sometimes we need to pull away to recharge. A few highlights from my break: Focused writing time: I’m on...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 22, 2019 | Writing
If you’ve spent much time around Go Teen Writers, you know we value time spent actually writing. Not just talking about writing, thinking about writing, or planning to write, but actually writing. That’s what we want for ourselves during the rest of 2019,...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 20, 2019 | Book Club Posts
Today on the Go Teen Writers Book Club, we’re discussing Chapter Eleven: Promises. Chapter Recap:The whole point of this chapter is to understand that the way you write makes promises to your readers, and it’s very important that you don’t break the promises you make....
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 18, 2019 | Antagonists, Book Proposals, Brainstorming, Characters, Mailbag, Synopsis
As I mentioned last Wednesday, this is our last week of blogging here on Go Teen Writers until January. This website is a labor of love for all three of us, and we need time away to learn and be creative without simultaneously producing content. “Nothing in...
by Shannon Dittemore | Nov 15, 2019 | The Craft of Writing, Writing
We get a lot of questions here at Go Teen Writers about writing books for kids and teens. “What’s the difference between chapter books and middle grade?” “What distinguishes YA from adult? Is it the age of the characters or the content of the...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 13, 2019 | Writing
Hey, writers! I promised Jill a month or so ago that I would host book club today, not realizing that I would instead have a ridiculous schedule that included taking my husband to the airport for a business trip and then doing all the kid-shuttling on my own. As you...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 11, 2019 | First Drafts, Plot, Scenes and Scene Structure
I touched on the idea of identifying your core story in my post about how to describe your story in a way that makes people want to read it, but I didn’t go into detail about what I meant or how to best use this tool. What do I mean by the core of your story? I...
