Good morning, and you may have noticed there was no blog post for yesterday. I decided to give my brain a chance to absorb all my ideas as well as all my learning for a day, before getting serious on my writing today. But I was not completely idle. I watched The Help yesterday. Both […]
More foundation work today. I started working on the beat sheets for each of my characters, wanting to know their arc before I even begin writing. It will give me an idea of how each character will react to given situations. For some, filling the beat sheet was easy. For others, I still have gaping […]
Today was more of the foundational work. Today was the day I started looking at the blueprint of how I want to build this story, and compared it to the pieces I already have. Some of them will work for the build, and some won’t. I grabbed both my Save the Cat beat sheet and […]
To know where you’re going, you have to see where you’ve been. So, this morning, it was time to start cutting my novel up. I split it up into scenes and divided my past story from my present story. This is what it currently looks like: I originally had the past story as flashbacks, but […]
I finished reading Echoes this morning. It was about a three-hour read, between yesterday and today. And the good news is, I believe it has potential. The bad news is, it’s gonna need a lot of work. I’ve never reviewed my own book before so this will be interesting. The characters are likable, and I […]
Today, I start revisions on my novel from 2006. Or I should say, I start analyzing it to see if it deserves revision or complete restructuring. Today won’t be about writing as much as it will be about reading. I will spend the day going through the novel, seeing what works, what doesn’t work, what […]
So, NaNoWriMo is over. A HUGE thank you to every one of you that encouraged me to keep going. I made it to the finish line. I had my celebratory sparkling wine. I marveled over my winner’s certificate. So, what’s next? Obviously, I will need to revise the novel, but not yet. I need to […]
I did it. I managed to write 50,000 words towards a novel for the first time since 2007. Yes, it’s mostly horrible. Yes, there are parts that make no sense, but yes, I have words that I can hand to Editor Jackson to do something with them. Best of all, I managed to institute a […]
I’m on the home stretch now. 900 words stand between me and victory. My lightbulb of ideas (and candy) is almost completely depleted. I found two more areas that could use a little more expansion. The question is now, where do I add the last 900 words? It’s okay. I am going to sleep on […]
Another 1,026 words this morning, less than 2,000 to go. But they are becoming harder and harder the closer I get to the end. Having already written the ending, I’m having to go back to other parts of the story. And this has shown me, that as the story currently stands, it does not have […]