by Jill Williamson | Apr 15, 2020 | Book Club Posts, Editing, First Drafts, Getting Feedback On Your Writing, Go Teen Writers Book Club, Learning from Other Authors, Scenes and Scene Structure, Story Structure, The Craft of Writing
This is our final blog post for the Go Teen Writers Book Club. Chapters 24 and 25 of Story Trumps Structure by Steven James were both so short, I decided to combine them into one post. If you didn’t yet read Chapter 25, go read it right now, then come back to the...
by Stephanie Morrill | Feb 10, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, First Drafts, Story Beginnings
Previous posts in this series Make Space Actually Write Get Ready to Celebrate An Overview of Beginning to End How to Start Your Story Right I’ve talked about chapter two before in this post, and today’s is a refresh of that article with a few additional...
by Shannon Dittemore | Jan 17, 2020 | First Drafts, The Craft of Writing
Here at Go Teen Writers, we’re pretty good at encouraging you all to write at your own pace. Some of us are quick twitch writers, while others plot our novels out painstakingly before a word is written. Some of us believe that the shortest distance between two...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 11, 2019 | First Drafts, Plot, Scenes and Scene Structure
I touched on the idea of identifying your core story in my post about how to describe your story in a way that makes people want to read it, but I didn’t go into detail about what I meant or how to best use this tool. What do I mean by the core of your story? I...
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...
