by Jill Williamson | Nov 6, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonThis thing all things devours:Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;Gnaws iron, bites steel;Grinds hard stones to meal;Slays kings, ruins town,And beats high mountains down.–J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit(Guess the answer in the comments...
by Jill Williamson | Nov 2, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonIt’s time for another punctuation lesson. I know… boring! But I see colons misused often in the manuscripts of new writers, along with semicolons, dashes, and ellipses. I promise to post only one punctuation lesson a month.Today’s...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 30, 2012 | Writing
by Jill Williamson This past summer I created a video on the topic of how to format a manuscript. I know that some of you participated in the Next Gen Writers Conference, but for those who weren’t able to, here is my class. And for those who’ve already...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 26, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonGo Teen Writers has really been growing. And since there are many new readers here, I thought it might be nice to post some definitions. AbbreviationsABA: American Booksellers AssociationARC: Advance reading copyBCC: Back cover copyBEA: BookExpo...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 23, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonShortly after my first book came out, an actor friend of mine contacted me to talk about the movie option for my project. He seemed excited about the idea of getting the books made into a movie and wanted to pitch the project to Walden Media.This got...
by Jill Williamson | Oct 19, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonOne of my favorites!I hope you enjoyed Susie May Warren’s guest post on Tuesday. The woman knows how to characterize. And plot. And write books. And teach people how to write books. She runs My Book Therapy, a website that teaches writing and...
