by Jill Williamson | Sep 14, 2012 | Writing
By Jill WilliamsonThe plot of a story is simply the series of events that takes your character from the beginning of the story to the end as he chases after his story goal. By far, the most popular plot structure is the three act structure that divides a story into...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 11, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonTo capitalize the name or not to capitalize? Here are the answers as per the Chicago Manual of Style.FamilyIf your character is addressing her mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, cousin, or grandparent and first uses a pronoun (my, her,...
by Jill Williamson | Sep 7, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonA few weeks ago I wrote a post introducing rhetoric to you all. Learning to use different types of rhetoric is fun because it gives more inspiration. Spontaneous creativity is awesome, but intentional creativity is cool too. And once you learn some...
by Jill Williamson | Aug 24, 2012 | Writing
Me and Susie May Warren By Jill WilliamsonLast week I got to go to my absolute favorite writer’s conference. Now, I love all writer’s conferences. I just can’t help it. But this one… it’s special. Here’s why:1. It’s mine....
by Jill Williamson | Aug 21, 2012 | Writing
By Jill WilliamsonThis was not what I’d planned to write about this morning…I’m having a hard few weeks, that’s for certain. Ever been there? Of course you have! We all have.I know better than to save my documents. And I’ve lost them...
by Jill Williamson | Aug 17, 2012 | Writing
by Jill WilliamsonThis may be review for some of you. But I’d like to go over this for those of you who have some confusion about when to use a comma or period or what when writing dialogue.First of all, there are two types of dialogue tags: “said” tags and...
