Sharp Pens Blog

Three Things to Do When You Realize Your Plot is Cliche

A brilliant new plot enters your mind. It charms you with sweeping intrigue, fascinating characters, and a premise that cannot be...

Registration for our fourth workshop is finally underway. Read all about this exciting new event! Plan to join us on Friday evening, May...

Genre Definition: A basic category of fiction. Explanation: The word “Genre” is used by many different industries, including the music...

I’m not quite sure how to write this blog post… I could say many things about the event. I could talk about how it was our third...

Sharp Pens is proud to reveal our third and final contest judge... Nadine Brandes learned to write her alphabet with a fountain pen. In...

We are only 5 days away from our contest deadline and very excited to read your entries. It's now time to reveal our second contest...

If you've entered our contest in the past, you know how it works. You send off your story to an invisible judge, wait a few weeks until...

Early registration for our next workshop, WORLD BUILDING, WORLDVIEW, WORLD CHANGE, is open. (We'll be calling it "World" for short.) To...

Show & Tell Definition: Showing —The word used to describe a writing style that demonstrates the events of a story by using active words...

Sharp Pens’ last workshop, This Means War, went very well and was attended by twenty teen writers from Idaho and Washington. We learned a...