This post idea comes from A Girl Who Writes, who tagged me in her post in a tricksy attempt to con me into doing this very thing! I suppose it worked. Lol. I know I have been super quiet around here for the past month, but I did, indeed, WIN NaNoWriMo, having written 50,327 words in 30 days! I posted a few excerpts throughout November from the NaNo WIP - if you happened to miss them, check out the Writing Prompt Wednesday category and you'll find them there easily enough! Things will get ... View Post
NaNoWriMo BOOT CAMP! Lesson Two: CHARACTERS AND GMCs!
NO, I do NOT mean a GMC car!!! You don't know what else I could possibly mean by GMC?!??! You think your characters are just bodies to occupy your awesomely fantastic setting or move through your utterly original and mind-blowing plot!???!? WRONG!!!!! WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! Failing on the CHARACTER LEVEL will make your entire book FAIL!! THAT'S RIGHT! I don't care how awesome your setting is or how mind-blowing your plot!!!! Without fully realized and FLAWED characters, your book will go ... View Post
NaNoWriMo BOOT CAMP! Lesson One: PREPARATION MATTERS!
OH, so you thought NaNoWriMo started in NOVEMBER, did you!?! WRONG! NaNoWriMo starts NOW, RIGHT NOW! The secret to success in this venture is PLANNING!!! PLANNING, people. "But I'm a PANTSER!" you say??? NOT THIS MONTH YOU AIN'T!!!! Writing 50k words of aimless story you'll just have to rewrite later DOESN'T COUNT. You don't want to go through the agony that is NaNoWriMo and then just have to turn around and SCRAP most of what you just sweated and bled!!! Only newbies jump into NaNo without at ... View Post
WRITE WHAT YOU LOVE. PERIOD.
Has your writing been stuck in a rut lately? Feeling completely uninspired? Dreading opening up that document to stare unproductively again for hours at that blinking cursor? Then maybe it's time to re-evaluate the project in question. Ask yourself WHAT IS THE POINT you want to get across in that work? What is the driving force behind the whole thing? What is the message you want people to take away with them after reading? If these questions draw blanks in your mind, truly take a little ... View Post
Castles in the Sky
*** When I was young (and by that I mean in middle school) and this whole notion and practice of writing novel-length original stories was still brand new to me, I found myself utterly fascinated with the entire process. I found it startling that I could begin a page having no idea what would follow, and yet after a few sentences were jotted down based on my vague idea of what should happen next, the story poured out with very little effort on my part. That didn't mean it was always entirely ... View Post
Slow and steady, said the tortoise to the hare…..
Sooooooo, I went back and took the average of how much I was handwriting on Guardian Angel at each sitting (because I date it in the margine each time I start writing), and it comes out to about one whopping page for each day I write. Heh. That being said, I've got fifty pages written so far. Not really a lot, but more than it feels like to me. And I guess a page for each bout of writing isn't terribly bad considering I get about fifteen minutes ... View Post
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