A well-developed character has a backstory, the events that happened in his life before the current story. These past events helped shape the character into who he is today and influence his motivations and why he makes the decisions he does. Sometimes pieces of that backstory are important enough to pass along to the reader. ... Continue Reading →
Here are the entries from the Say What? writing prompt: From our staff member Steph, an excerpt of her work-in-progress novel: http://clumzbella.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/novel-novice-dialogue-writing-prompt/ This excerpt is from an original story written by thejezbeljones: http://thejezebeljones.livejournal.com/1972.html This anonymous entry is also from an original story. I wrote this as part of an all-human Twilight fan fiction story: http://the2amwriter.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/teaser-unseen-scars/ (warning: language) An original story... Continue Reading →
To be honest, I had trouble coming up with questions for these two chapters. Read the chapters, think about the questions, and post your answers in the comments. Breaking Dawn, Chapters 4 and 5: If you were in Bella's place, would you spend your wedding reception with your new husband or with the people you... Continue Reading →
For Chapters 2 and 3 of our Breaking Dawn read-along, we set up three chat sessions throughout the month of March. Unfortunately, there was not as good of a turn-out as we'd hoped. So for the rest of the chapters, we'll go back to blog posting. We're supposed to start Chapters 4 & 5 but... Continue Reading →
Dialogue is key in any story. But is your dialogue working for your story? Is it pulling its weight? Dialogue in story should never be there for the sake of being there; it must always serve a purpose: convey information forward the plot illuminate character Here is a very simple example to illustrate how a... Continue Reading →
Will you be joining us for our Breaking Dawn read-along for Chapters 2 and 3? We're having a chat tomorrow, March 20th at 3:00 PM Eastern (Noon Pacific). You have to sign up in advance using this form. Be logged into your Gmail account at 3:00 PM Eastern (Noon Pacific) to receive the invitation to... Continue Reading →
Will you be joining us for our Breaking Dawn read-along for Chapters 2 and 3? We're having a chat tomorrow, March 16th at 10:30 PM Eastern (7:30 PM Pacific). You have to sign up in advance using this form. Be logged into your Gmail account at 10:30 PM Eastern (10:30 PM Pacific) to receive the... Continue Reading →
Will you be joining us for our Breaking Dawn read-along for Chapters 2 and 3? We're having a chat tomorrow, March 9th at 2:00 PM Eastern (11:00 AM Pacific). You have to sign up in advance using this form. Be logged into your Gmail account at 2:00 PM Eastern (11:00 AMPacific) to receive the invitation... Continue Reading →
Have you written your story for our February-March writing prompt? There's still time! Send us your stories by 11:59PM PST Monday, March 14. The focus is writing your character -- check out the details here. Write your story from ANY fandom or create your own original characters. We're looking forward to reading them!
My apologies for being a few days late posting the next part of the Breaking Dawn read-along. We would like to try something different this time, and see how it works. Instead of doing the discussion in the comments, we want to try a live chat! We've set up three live chats throughout March.... Continue Reading →
Novel Novice 