Jill Williamson | Where Adventure Comes to Life

I decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year. Click here to see my NaNo 2020 page. Do I have the time? Not really. However, I do need to get back into the habit of writing words every day—or at least on certain days of the week—so I figured NaNo would be good […]

I’m SO EXCITED to tell you that four the fourth year in a row, Writer’s Digest has listed www.GoTeenWriters.com as one of their recommended best websites for writers. Here is a screenshot of the blog post. What’s even cooler is that we are listed first this year! Click here to read it for yourself and […]

You guys. My friend Shannon Dittemore just had a book release, and I just had to tell you all about it because I loved it so much. The book is called Winter, White and Wicked, and it’s an ice road trucker fantasy novel. It’s Frozen meets Mad Max. It’s awesome. Here’s the story: ❄️ ❄️ […]

A few weeks ago, I visited with Thomas Umstattd on the Christian Publishing Show podcast. Thomas and I had a great conversation about writing for the young adult market. You can listen to listen to the episode by clicking here.

Hello, my bookish Explorers. It has been so long since I gave you an update on life. What have I been up to? Well . . . I finished grad school (hooray!), earned my degree and my teaching credential (hooray!), then started looking for a job (ug). My son went of to COLLEGE (dies), and […]

Last week we released the book cover reveal for the new writing book that Stephanie Morrill, Shannon Dittemore, and I wrote. It’s called Go Teen Writers: Write Your Novel. And it is, in a way, a prequel project to Go Teen Writers: Edit Your Novel. This one is for the beginning writer, who is struggling […]

I have a bad habit of thinking about ALL of the ways I’m always falling short of my own ideals and what I think God and others think I need to be. It’s a constant battle for me to remember that God loves me as I am, and that nobody else really matters. (No offense!) […]

THE EXPANSE SERIES I’ve been hearing SO MUCH about The Expanse series on Amazon Prime—and about the books—I decided to read the first book, Leviathan Wakes, and see if it lived up to the hype. I liked the book. It’s adult science fiction—not what I usually read. It’s kind of a sci fi police procedural […]

Stephanie, Shannon, and I are super excited to tell you that we’ve been secretly working on a new Go Teen Writers book! This one is called Go Teen Writers: Write Your Novel and we wrote it with the beginning writer in mind. We know it’s hard to finish a first draft. We know it’s hard […]

Today, Storyworld First is six years old! I titled the book as I did because the storyworld is almost always the first thing I think about when writing a new story. Some people are character first novelists. Some are plot first novelists. I’m a storyworld first novelist. Another thing to note about the way I […]