by Jill Williamson | Jan 20, 2021 | Creativity, Editing, First Drafts, Getting Feedback On Your Writing, Learning from Other Authors, Plot, Writing
Last fall, my husband stumbled upon a YouTuber that he greatly enjoys. His name is Ryan George, and he makes short Pitch Meeting videos for the Screen Rant YouTube channel that make fun of the plots of popular movies. You should check them out sometime. You’ll...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 2, 2020 | Editing, Getting Feedback On Your Writing
**As a reminder, beginning next week, fresh content will appear on Wednesdays only. I’m pulling today’s post from the 2017 archives since we talked about finishing your manuscript earlier this week. I have never been a particularly thick-skinned person. I...
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...
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...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 4, 2020 | Editing, Guest Posts
Our guest today is McCall Hoyle! McCall is both a lovely writer and lovely human being. Because we had the same publisher and editor, I had the opportunity to hang out with her at two American Library Association conferences. And even though we’ve eaten several...
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...
