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...
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 Shannon Dittemore | Sep 6, 2019 | Author Life, Mailbag, The Craft of Writing, Writing, Writing Life
It’s another Go Teen Writers Mailbag! And today we have a heartfelt question surrounding an issue many of us have pondered at one point or another. Charlie asks: Do you have any tips on writing deep, moving scenes in your novel, while avoiding being preachy or...
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...
