by Jill Williamson | Jan 15, 2020 | Book Club Posts, Editing, Go Teen Writers Book Club, The Craft of Writing
Today on the Go Teen Writers Book Club, we’re discussing Causality, chapter thirteen of Story Trumps Structure by Steven James. Chapter Recap:The topic of causality, at first, seemed new to me, but once I started reading, it was all too familiar. I wrote a couple blog...
by Jill Williamson | Jan 8, 2020 | Book Club Posts, Go Teen Writers Book Club, Scenes and Scene Structure
Now that Christmas break is over, the Go Teen Writers Book Club is back! Today we are discussing Chapter Twelve: Scenes. Chapter Recap: In this chapter, Mr. James discusses scenes. He tells us that scenes are not the same as chapters. They might be longer than a...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 9, 2019 | Book Club Posts, Characters, Go Teen Writers Book Club
Today on the Go Teen Writers Book Club, we’re discussing Chapter Six: Change. Chapter Recap: Mr. James talked about the difference between putty people and pebble people. The events of the story cause putty people to change, while pebble people remain unchanged....
by Jill Williamson | Oct 2, 2019 | Book Club Posts, Characters, Climax, Dark Night of the Soul, Go Teen Writers Book Club, Story Structure
Today on the Go Teen Writers Book Club, we’re discussing Chapter Five: Discovery. Chapter Recap: A story is a journey in which the protagonist travels from one place in time, location, or relationship to another. Along the way he encounters various struggles,...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 25, 2019 | Book Club Posts, Go Teen Writers Book Club, Story Structure, The Craft of Writing
Some of you might have seen that I released the book cover for Thirst yesterday. If you haven’t seen it, I wanted to post the cover here to celebrate with you all since I wrote that book as part of this blog during the #WeWriteBooks year. So here it is! What do...
by Jill Williamson | Aug 21, 2019 | Go Teen Writers Book Club, Learning from Other Authors, Reading, The Craft of Writing, Writing
The title of this post says it all, doesn’t it? We are starting a book club! This isn’t just any book club. This is a book club in which we will read books on the craft of writing fiction. We’re going to take it slow with this first book. We’ll...
