by Jill Williamson | Nov 30, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonIn her book, Getting into Character, Brandilyn Collins has a chapter on what she calls emotional memory. This concept will help you learn to write emotions for your character that you’ve never actually experienced by using a combination of...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 27, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonLike it or not, formulas can work very well. The trick is to know how to twist the plot so that the formula’s cliché isn’t recognizable. That’s not the case with the children’s cartoon Dora the Explorer. My kids both loved watching...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 20, 2012 | Writing
by Jill Williamson & Mindy Starns ClarkSince I’ve been talking about mystery and suspense in my last few posts, I thought you all might find this list helpful. Like many other genres (fantasy, romance), there are many sub-genres that fall under the...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 16, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonWhen I wrote my mystery vs. suspense post on Tuesday, I tried to link to this post. Then I discovered that I never posted this post on Go Teen Writes. This was one of my last posts on my old Teenage Authors blog. So I decided to post it here for...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 13, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonI’ve done some research these past few weeks on this topic, and here’s what I found: Mystery novels make you think. Suspense novels make you sweat.But let’s look a bit closer at each.The Mystery NovelA mystery is a secret. A puzzle to...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 9, 2012 | Writing
By Jill WilliamsonI started writing my novel The New Recruit in 2004. I attended my first writer’s conference in 2005, where I learned that my writing needed a lot of work. Near the end of 2006, I was preparing to attend a large writer’s conference in the...
