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A Checklist For Finalizing Your Novel

A Checklist For Finalizing Your Novel

by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 28, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing

Before I get into today’s post, I want to let you all know that in the future, new posts will appear on Go Teen Writers on Wednesdays only. Why are we changing to posting one day a week? Because my 3 kids are on 3 different school schedules, Jill landed her...
The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Finishing A Novel: 6 Questions To Ask When Editing Scenes

The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Finishing A Novel: 6 Questions To Ask When Editing Scenes

by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 21, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing, Scenes and Scene Structure

Let’s imagine that your manuscript as a garden. When you wrote your book, you put each seed in the soil where you imagine it should go. When finished, you took a break came back to a blooming garden (along with some weeds that somehow wound up in there!) The...
The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Finishing A Novel: Are You Ready For The Micro Edit?

The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Finishing A Novel: Are You Ready For The Micro Edit?

by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 24, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing

As I talked about in my original post in this series about editing, I’ve found it’s more effective to start editing with big changes that need to be made (regardless of where they are in the story) rather than beginning in chapter one and working my way...
The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Finishing A Novel: Fixing Setting Problems

The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Finishing A Novel: Fixing Setting Problems

by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 17, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing, Setting

When I’m doing a macro edit, the last big picture story element I work on is my setting. The setting for your story isn’t just, “modern day Kansas City,” or, “1920s Chicago,” or a fantasy world of your own creation. You might find...
The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Finishing A Novel: Fixing Plot Problems

The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Finishing A Novel: Fixing Plot Problems

by Stephanie Morrill | Aug 10, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing, Plot

After a couple weeks away from this series, I’m feeling a bit disoriented! If you are too, here are the last few posts: Editing Process Overview Fixing Character Issues Fixing Theme Issues Like I talked about in previous editing posts, all the story elements...
The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Writing A Novel: Fixing Theme Problems

The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Writing A Novel: Fixing Theme Problems

by Stephanie Morrill | Jul 13, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Editing, Theme

The word “theme” can still cause shivers because it calls up my memories of high school English when I had to identify elements like theme or symbolism in five paragraph essays. (The only thing worse was analyzing poetry.) Those essays always left me...
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