by Jill Williamson | May 13, 2020 | Creativity, poetry, The Craft of Writing, Writing
Over the 2019-2020 winter break, I studied hard to pass a test that would give me an endorsement for teaching English and Humanities in middle school. One thing I had to study a lot of that I previously knew almost nothing about was poetry. Since we have rarely talked...
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 Shannon Dittemore | Mar 6, 2020 | The Craft of Writing, Writing
Like every being of light, Canaan hates fear. It has little effect on him, but humans can’t make such a claim. Only Celestial eyes can see it for what it is. Black and thick. Like tar, but icy and alive. It clings and oozes. It weighs down its victims until they are...
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...
