It’s time to Plot with Jill Williamson

Written by: admin on December 8, 2011 @ 1:49 pm

Here’s the third and final installment in our December event with Jill Williamson. A huge thank you to Jill for presenting this awesome workshop and for fielding all your ideas! Thanks Jill!! Before we begin, please make sure to take a moment and click through to our presenters’ books page. You will find a list [...]

Tags: Jill Williamson, Plot, Randy Ingermanson, Replication, Writing for Dummies

From Premise to Characters (Part Two with Jill Williamson)

Written by: admin on December 5, 2011 @ 2:42 pm

(Don’t forget to visit Jill whenever you can.) Our first lesson was on premise. Today we’re going to test our premise, then talk about characters.   Testing our idea   Contemporary Fiction: What if there’s a reason behind the computer’s hard drive being erased?   Has it been done before? Not that I know of. [...]

Tags: Character, Jill Williamson, Premise, Replication

Starting from Scratch-Brainstorming a Story Before You Write

Written by: admin on December 2, 2011 @ 1:02 am

All right NextGenners December’s event will be hosted by Jill Williamson and it will be a multiple entry event spread over the next week, so make sure to stop back often. Enough from me, let’s hear from Jill…   Happy December, NexGen Writers! I’m glad to be back among all you creative types! I hope [...]

Tags: Creating a Story, Jill Williamson, Premise, Replication

December’s Event with Jill Williamson…

Written by: admin on December 1, 2011 @ 3:30 pm

…Starts tomorrow. Don’t miss it. Jill will be visiting with us all week, to interact and answer your questions about creating a story, the early stages. Can’t wait!!  

Tags: December event, Jill Williamson, Story creation

A Voice from Among You–What’s it Like to Put Your Writing Out There?

Written by: admin on November 16, 2011 @ 12:47 pm

Today’s post (which is a day late due to my daughter’s broken wrist…sorry friends:) is from one of our NextGenWriter’s attendees, Chris M. It’s hard to put your writing out there, serve it to the world on a silver platter and wait to see if they send it back or scarf it up. Hard and [...]

Tags: chris miles, critiques, nextgenwriters, writing

Wow! That was fun.

Written by: admin on November 3, 2011 @ 1:19 am

Thanks to all who participated in yesterday’s character parade. Great heroes and heroines with a huge touch of creativity in sharing the best of who they are. Next month Jill Williamson will be stopping by to teach us a thing or two. You won’t want to miss that one. The December event will occur on [...]

Today’s the Day!!

Written by: admin on November 2, 2011 @ 12:38 pm

Have you prepared your character’s big debut? Post it today! Then come and visit with the other character’s prancing around:). Let’s see what all that hard work was about! Post. Now. I can’t wait any longer. Oh yeah, here’s the link: Forum

Your Character’s Perfect World

Written by: admin on October 29, 2011 @ 6:34 am

Now that you have a good grasp on your character (you know his or her quirks, reaction tendencies, and flaws) it’s time to look at where–and when–to set their story. Oftentimes we picture the character within the story before the character is fully developed. Ever done that? Let’s look at two strong characters in recent [...]

Tags: characters, jeff gerke, November event

What Are You Going to Do to Your Character?

Written by: admin on October 19, 2011 @ 1:32 pm

Last week we took a look at the major temperaments according to the Kiersey scale. I hope you all took a moment to choose one and really dig deep into that temperament’s traits. Now you’ll have a good handle on how your character would deal with conflict. Let’s face it, good books have good characters, [...]

Tags: Character development, external conflict, internal conflict, kiersey temperament, moral premise