by Jill Williamson | Feb 26, 2020 | Book Club Posts, Description, Editing, Go Teen Writers Book Club, The Craft of Writing
Today on the Go Teen Writers Book Club, we’re discussing “Polish,” chapter eighteen of Story Trumps Structure by Steven James. Chapter Recap:This chapter is really about editing in the form of tightening your prose. When polishing a story, every word counts. Anything...
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 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 Shannon Dittemore | Nov 15, 2019 | The Craft of Writing, Writing
We get a lot of questions here at Go Teen Writers about writing books for kids and teens. “What’s the difference between chapter books and middle grade?” “What distinguishes YA from adult? Is it the age of the characters or the content of the...
by Shannon Dittemore | Oct 25, 2019 | The Craft of Writing, Writing
When a reader’s eyes travel your book’s first page, they are not only reading a story, but one promise after another. Each promise crafted carefully by you, the author. Wait, what? You didn’t realize you were making promises? Oh, but you are. Story beginnings are...
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...
