Our Last Post: An Intentional Ending
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by Stephanie Morrill
1M ago
Hello, Go Teen Writers community. It’s with mixed feelings today that we tell you this is our last post on Go Teen Writers for the foreseeable future. Go Teen Writers has been around since 2010 and has always been a labor of love, but fourteen years is a very long time to post weekly about writing, and both of us are looking forward to devoting time to other writing projects. We will continue to send out Go Teen Writers Notes on a monthly basis, so if you want to keep in touch with us, please make sure you sign up. Sign up to hear from us monthly! From Stephanie Go Teen Writers started waaaa ..read more
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The Manga Toolbelt for Fiction Writers
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by Jill Williamson
2M ago
Ellen McGinty is an author and editor of Young Adult fantasy and historical fiction. She lives in the Tokyo metropolis with her husband, three boys, and a hypoallergenic cat. When not writing or editing, you can find her exploring the wilds of Japan with an abundance of espresso and the occasional kimono. Her debut YA fantasy novel, Saints & Monsters, with dragons, lots of heart, and autoimmune rep releases with Quill & Flame Publishers in March 2024. If you could capture the essence of manga in a fiction novel, would you? Many stories in manga and anime seem to possess an otherw ..read more
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Five Tips for Writing a Successful Query Letter to an Agent
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by Stephanie Morrill
2M ago
Today, we’re thrilled to have Mara Cobb with Martin Literary Management as our guest! That means these are real tips from a real agent who reads real query letters! Here’s a little bit about Mara, followed immediately by her helpful article: After earning her MA in English, Mara Cobb began working for Martin Literary Management in September 2023, where she reviews Christian fiction, young adult, inspirational romance, and adult nonfiction queries. When she’s not working, she can be found baking, reading, and spending time on her family’s farm. You can read more about her on her website. So yo ..read more
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How to Transport Your Reader
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by Jill Williamson
2M ago
Becky Dean is a fan of adventures both real and fictional. She writes contemporary stories of teens finding themselves and falling in love in fun, far-off places and science fiction stories about young people traveling to new planets (and also falling in love). She’s the author of two published and two upcoming YA romance novels and, under the name B.L. Dean, the four-book Shades of Starlight series. When she’s not writing or traveling, she can be found drinking tea, watching science fiction shows, or quoting the Lord of the Rings. We’ve all read books that transported us to a different place ..read more
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Level Up Your Worldbuilding
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by Jill Williamson
2M ago
I had an amazing adventure visiting Japan over Christmas break. My husband, my son Luke, and I spent ten days exploring three cities. We visited three Nintendo stores, three theme parks, several Pokémon stores, and a bunch of other electronics stores, gaming stores, pop culture stores, and bookstores. We had a great time. Here are some pictures. I couldn’t help thinking about many of the different “worlds” we experienced in that country and how writers can use in their storyworld building some of the tricks that theme parks and video games use to entertain. Make Your World Immersive While in ..read more
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Level Up Your World Building
Go Teen Writers
by Jill Williamson
2M ago
I had an amazing adventure visiting Japan over Christmas break. My husband, my son Luke, and I spent ten days exploring three cities. We visited three Nintendo stores, three theme parks, several Pokémon stores, and a bunch of other electronics stores, gaming stores, pop culture stores, and bookstores. We had a great time. Here are some pictures. I couldn’t help thinking about many of the different “worlds” we experienced in that country and how writers can use in their storyworld building some of the tricks that theme parks and video games use to entertain. Make Your World Immersive While in ..read more
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3 Ways To Set Powerful Writing Goals
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by Stephanie Morrill
3M ago
I’ve had an off-and-on relationship with writing goals over the years. There have been years when I set incredibly specific writing goals for myself. In January, I will do this. In February, I will do this. And so forth for the entire year. There have been other years when I’ve set zero writing goals. At the time, my life was a chaotic, unpredictable mess, and I thought, “If I set goals, I’ll fail. That will just frustrate me.” Some years, I’ve limited myself to only setting goals that were 100% in my control and that I could achieve on my own. Other years, I’ve written down things like, “Get ..read more
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10 Steps to Outlining a Short Fiction Story
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by Jill Williamson
3M ago
As a novelist, short stories have always been challenging for me. I have the tendency to overcomplicate things, and short stories need to be simple. Last year I wrote a short fiction story for a magazine. Thankfully, my editor gave me some advice about how to structure a short story that I found so valuable, I created an outline to use again and again. 1) Do You Have a Small Moment Idea? Before we get into the specific steps of the outline, I want to first point out that we can’t structure a short story like we structure a novel. We just don’t have enough room for a complex plot. What we do ne ..read more
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How to Write in December (and other busy months!)
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by Stephanie Morrill
3M ago
Writing in December comes with unique challenges. Whether you have extra time on your hands (like Jill) or less time than you’re used to having (like me) there are tips in here for you ..read more
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4 Ways To Add Length To Your Novels
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by Stephanie Morrill
4M ago
When writing a first draft of a novel, most writers tend to either write long (use more words than necessary) or write short (use too few words). You likely know which one you are. If you’re the type of writer who writes short, you’ll notice that when you’re revising your stories, you’re typically adding more words that you are deleting. Or maybe you intended to write a full length novel and somehow it only came out to be 25,000 words. If you tend to write short, this article is for you. But if you’re the other type of writer, the type who plans to write an 80,000 word novel and it somehow tur ..read more
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