2023 Teen Readers' Choice Award Winners
This year we created the first literary award for teens to be decided by teens! We went through intense rounds of voting to decide the...
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- Mar 30
- 1 min
TABC Teen Anthology 2023 Winners
It's another round of winners to cheer for! The theme of our all-teen anthology collection for 2023 was "Heroes & Villains!" We saw a...
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- Mar 30
- 1 min
TABC Poetry Collection 2023 Winners
Give a round of applause to the winners of our Poetry Collection! This year's group was carefully selected by our special guest judge,...
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- Mar 28
- 1 min
TABC First Chapter Contest 2023 Winners
We received a TON of awesome entries for our annual First Chapter Contest! Thank you to everyone who mustered up the courage to send us...
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- Jun 13, 2022
- 2 min
In Storytelling, Punchlines Matter
Often in writing, we discuss the importance of the first line, the first page, and the first chapter. In fact, I am constantly...
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- Mar 28, 2021
- 14 min
Writing Prompt Battle Winners!
Teen writers from all over recently joined us for a TABC 2021 preconference event that gave birth to some fantastic on-the-spot writing!...
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- Feb 10, 2021
- 4 min
Revision: Don’t Be Lazy, Be Intentional
By KayLynn Flanders For twenty-nine years of my life, I was content to be a reader. Writing is too hard, I’d always say. However, I loved...
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- Jan 30, 2021
- 4 min
The Novel Is in the Details
by Jessica Day George So, you’ve decided to write a book. This is a great idea! The world always needs more books! But how, HOW do you...
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- Jan 25, 2021
- 3 min
Think Like a Journalist and Interview Your Characters
by Patrick Scalisi When you’re working on a story, it can sometimes be fun to step away from the main project and work instead on...
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- Jan 22, 2021
- 5 min
USING CHAOS or When to Stop Living in Your Head and Start Writing the First Chapter
By Jeff Wheeler One of the fun parts of being a writer is the chance to let your imagination run wild as you dream up new places, new...
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- Jan 15, 2021
- 4 min
Sipping Your Way to Inspiration: Your Characters as Beverages
By Shelly X Leonn No matter how hard I try, I can’t sit still while I’m writing. I wish I could resemble that portrait of Phyllis...
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- Jan 9, 2021
- 4 min
10 Steps to finish your book in 30 days or less!
Know Where You’re Going By: Emily Layne Writers are generally categorized into two groups—ready to find out which one you are? Do you…? ·...
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- Jan 6, 2021
- 3 min
Understand Setting by Mixing It Up
By Candice Marley Conner My favorite books to read are ones I fall into completely. I need to be grounded in the story so I can easily...
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- Dec 30, 2020
- 2 min
CREATING COMPLEX, COMPELLING CHARACTERS
by Maryanne Melloan Woods My main piece of advice: go deep. Your characters should be multi-layered, fully-developed people that your...
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- Feb 7, 2020
- 2 min
Writing to Theme
Johnny Worthen I am excited to be a part of this year’s Teen Author Boot Camp. It is a wonderful event, aimed right where it’ll do the...
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- Jan 23, 2020
- 2 min
The Power of Questioning
Jennifer A. Nielsen Hey young writers, let’s chat about how to build a stronger plot. Play along and see where your imagination takes...
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- Jan 21, 2020
- 3 min
Scofflaws and Revolutionaries: Breaking the Rules
Amy Beatty When I was a wee whippersnapper, my father passed on some excellent age-old writing advice: “Never say always, and always...
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- Jan 17, 2020
- 2 min
Be in the writing for the writing!
Kyra Johnson A lot of times the response I get when I tell people I’ve written books is, “oh, I’ve always wanted to be an author!” I...
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- Jan 15, 2020
- 2 min
Keep Your Eyes On Your Own Paper
Emma Boone Being a writer is a wonderful rollercoaster of super highs and terrible lows. It's a lot of fun imagining new worlds and...
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- Jan 13, 2020
- 3 min
Good Questions and Bad Questions
By Shelly Brown Good questions are critical to have in your writing, whether it’s fantasy or romance or nonfiction. In fact I recently...
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