by Stephanie Morrill | Mar 4, 2013 | Brainstorming, Dialogue, Editing, Lists for Writers, The Craft of Writing
by Stephanie Morrill We’re continuing the celebration of the Go Teen Writers book release with more free printables for you! These lists are found in the Extras section of the Go Teen Writers. They’ve been on the blog before, but we updated them for the...
by Stephanie Morrill | Jun 4, 2012 | Dialogue, Editing, The Craft of Writing
by Stephanie Morrill Today’s post is a revision of something I wrote around a year ago stating that said is considered to be invisible. In that post, I told you guys that in your dialogue, your characters should be saying stuff rather than exclaiming or...
by Stephanie Morrill | Apr 12, 2012 | The Craft of Writing
by Stephanie Morrill Let’s establish straight away that I’m no expert on active or passive writing. Or anything grammar related, really. But once upon a time, I wrote with a lot of passive sentences until a literary agent told me she liked my story, but...
by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 14, 2011 | Characters, The Craft of Writing
A couple weeks ago, I pulled out a manuscript of mine from high school. At the time I wrote it, I felt like if I could complete the project, I would have a shot at getting it published. But the dandelion story, as I’ve been calling it on here, had problems I...
by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 28, 2011 | The Craft of Writing
As we talk about POV (point of view), you may whine. You may grumble. You may pull out your beloved copy of Sense and Sensibility and say, “But Jane head-hopped!” Or you may reference some book that sold gazillions of copies last year and say,...
