by Jill Williamson | Nov 6, 2019 | Book Club Posts, Editing, First Drafts, Plot, Scenes and Scene Structure, Story Endings, Story Structure
Today on the Go Teen Writers Book Club, we’re discussing Chapter Ten: Twists. Chapter Recap:Mr. James says that every great story will include a twist. He doesn’t say it “should” include a twist, but that if the story is going to be great, it “will” include one. This...
by Shannon Dittemore | Oct 4, 2019 | Characters, Description, Editing, First Drafts, The Craft of Writing, Writing
A couple weeks back, I put out a call for writing questions through our Go Teen Writers Instagram account. Oodles of you responded and I was able to answer several of those questions in a quick hits post. A few of the questions required a longer reply, and so today, I...
by Jill Williamson | Jul 17, 2019 | Editing, Encouragement, Getting Feedback On Your Writing, Grow An Author, Learning from Other Authors
I’m in grad school to become an elementary teacher. Last week in my Literature class, I learned how to do reading and writing assessments for my students. I found the whole experience rather fascinating. Being a writer myself, I knew I’d need to critique...
by Jill Williamson | Jun 26, 2019 | Brainstorming, Editing, Mailbag, Scenes and Scene Structure, Story Structure, World Building, Writing
Today’s Go Teen Writers Mailbag Question comes from Maccey, who writes: I am trying to create a timeline for my story. I wanted to find a site that would let me, but so far I can’t find any decent ones. Do you have any suggestions? This question depends on...
by Shannon Dittemore | Apr 19, 2019 | Editing, Getting Published
A while back, I spent a few weeks talking about agents and query letters. To follow it up, I thought we could talk about what it looks like to be a contracted author working with an editor at a traditional publishing house. As a refresher, agents acquire projects they...
by Jill Williamson | Mar 6, 2019 | Author Life, Brainstorming, Editing, First Drafts, Goals, Writing
First of all… Sorry that my video wasn’t showing up last week! I messed up somewhere and the post never made it out of draft mode. I don’t know what happened other than I clicked (or didn’t click) the right thing. So if you were looking for...
