by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 6, 2018 | Writing
Go Teen Writers: Edit Your Novel is out in the world, and we couldn’t be happier about it! Buy now from Amazon.com Buy now from BarnesandNoble.com Buy now from Kobo.com After months of revamping old content and and adding new chapters on writing historical...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 5, 2018 | Grow An Author
When we moved the website off Blogger and onto our pretty new site, one of the the things we lost was our “Looking for something specific?” tab with links to many of our most popular posts. Making a new one has sat on my to-do list for the last few months,...
by Shannon Dittemore | Nov 2, 2018 | Author Life, NaNoWriMo
It’s day two of National Novel Writing Month! Who put words on the page yesterday? I did! To be honest, my day started off a little rough. Construction crews rolled into my court at 8am and set up camp in the front yard. The noise, you guys! But, the upside of...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 31, 2018 | First Drafts, NaNoWriMo
Have you signed on for this year’s National Novel Writing Month? I have! I’m determined to finish a novel I’ve been working on ALL YEAR LONG. NaNo starts tomorrow. (I can’t believe it’s here already!) But I am ready. Are you? Here are...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 29, 2018 | Author Life, Grow An Author
Do you ever find yourself wanting to do something—start your novel, start posting on Instagram as an author, self-publish—but don’t do any of it. The task feels big/scary/vulnerable, and what if you don’t do it perfectly? If you’ve had conversations...
by Shannon Dittemore | Oct 26, 2018 | Author Life, NaNoWriMo
Roll call! Who’s doing NaNoWriMo? “What’s NaNoWriMo?” you ask. Well! Let me tell you all about it. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It was started in 1999 by a guy named Chris Baty – which, basically means this...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 24, 2018 | Antagonists, Plot, Story Middles
You guys. There is WAY too much going on in my life right now. I feel like a hamster on a wheel that someone rolled down a very steep hill. Anyone relate? Anyone? Bueller? “Hang on, Jill,” I tell myself. “Almost there.” Where...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 22, 2018 | Brainstorming, First Drafts, Writing Competitions
While November is officially National Novel Writing Month, October is unofficially prep-your-novel-for-NaNoWriMo month. If you’re not familiar with it, NaNoWriMo is an international event where you “win” by writing 50,000 words during the month of...
by Shannon Dittemore | Oct 19, 2018 | First Drafts, Grow An Author
It’s Friday again! Doughnuts all around, methinks! Over the past few weeks we’ve been discussing the cracks that have a tendency to show up in our manuscripts when we reach the mid-way point of our first draft. We’ve looked at ways to address...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 17, 2018 | Plot
You’ve likely heard both of the writing terms: midpoint twist and mirror moment. We’ve talked about them here before, but I don’t think we’ve talked about them together. I’m going to talk about them together. 🙂 The whole point of the...
