by Jill Williamson | Oct 19, 2022 | Brainstorming, Creativity, Fantasy, Setting, Speculative Fiction, World Building, Writing Tools
Before I get into today’s post, I want to let you know that we’re having a sale on the Go Teen Writers books to gear up for National Novel Writing Month. Both Write Your Novel and Edit Your Novel are on sale! You can get them for $2.99 each on Kindle or...
by Shannon Dittemore | Oct 12, 2022 | Writing
Today, we’re moving into our series on The Five Elements of Fiction, with a closer look at Style. When we speak of style in storytelling, we’re not talking about an author’s wardrobe (thank goodness!). We’re talking about how an author tells a story....
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 5, 2022 | 100-for-100
This year, we had an amazing 72 writers finish the 100-for-100 writing challenge! WOW. I lost track of how many emails i received saying things like, “I had been in a writing slump and this challenge broke me out of it.” Or, “I had no idea I was...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 28, 2022 | Learning from Other Authors, Marketing, Writing As A Business
Today I am continuing the Goodreads discussion I began last week. You can read last week’s post here. In short, Goodreads is a place where readers go to talk about books, learn about new books, organize their reading lists, and more. It’s a place authors...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 21, 2022 | Writing
Jill here. I’ll be posting this week and next, so I decided to turn the Goodreads workshop I taught this past summer at Realm Makers into a blog post. I am far from an expert on Goodreads, but I have been using the site since before I was first published in...
by Shannon Dittemore | Sep 14, 2022 | Elements of Fiction, Story Structure, The Craft of Writing, Writing, Writing Exercise
Happy Wednesday, writers! I’m a little bogged down out here in California. There’s a fire raging about a half hour from where we live, and we’ve got a house full of evacuees. They’re lovely, and I’m so glad we have space to share, but it...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 7, 2022 | Characters, Mailbag
A while back, I asked our community, “If you had a writing mentor, what kinds of questions would you ask them?” In today’s post, I’ve culled a selection of your questions about characters to answer: “What are some good ways to develop...
by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 31, 2022 | Story Structure
(If this post sounds familiar, it’s because I’ve adapted it from one written in 2013. My daughter is now a freshman in high school and no longer watches Tangled obsessively. Thank you in advance for offering your condolences.) I love the...
by Jill Williamson | Aug 24, 2022 | Writing
Jill here. Before I get into today’s topic, I wanted to say that I missed you all so much this summer! It has been a crazy time for me. I took on a few too many adventures and had seven trips in three months, five of which involved flights on airlines. Where did...
by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 17, 2022 | Creativity, First Drafts
If you have spent much time hiking in national parks or government protected land, you may have noticed signs like these: These are areas where the park is being intentional about regrowth. The land can still flourish, but not if a bunch of us are traipsing around on...
