by Stephanie Morrill | Apr 13, 2020 | Beginning Writer's Guide To Finishing A Novel, Dark Night of the Soul, Story Endings, Story Structure
If you celebrate Easter, I hope you had an enjoyable holiday! I’ve always really enjoyed celebrating Easter with church, family, and my kids dressed in cute spring clothes that it’s not quite warm enough for yet. I always enjoy the day … but the...
by Jill Williamson | Mar 25, 2020 | Guest Posts, Learning from Other Authors, Story Endings, Writing, Writing a Series
Today we have a guest post from former Go Teen Writer girl Taylor Bennett. The final book in Taylor’s Tradewinds series just released this month, and it’s currently free on Kindle Unlimited! If you’re new to Taylor and her books, you can start at the beginning of the...
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 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 Shannon Dittemore | Dec 14, 2018 | Denouement, Grow An Author, Story Endings
It seems only fitting that as we near the end of the year, we’ve reached the last few posts in our #GrowAnAuthor series. It’s almost like we planned it that way! Today, we’re going to finish our talk on story endings. Story endings are made up of two main components....
by Shannon Dittemore | Dec 7, 2018 | Climax, Grow An Author, Story Endings
Before National Novel Writing Month, we were talking about something, weren’t we? Oh yes! How to draft a novel. And specifically, I think we’re on to endings now, which is just fabulous, because who doesn’t like to write THE END? Before we can finish...
