Andrew M. Friday

Category: fiction writing

  • Mucking around in the rough draft of your NaNoWriMo creation

    Mucking around in the rough draft of your NaNoWriMo creation

    For NaNoWriMo, here are some things I’m leaving in as I write: Before November, I’ve already written a one or two sentence summary of each scene. For NaNoWriMo, I write a “scribble version” of the scene. This is a more developed summary containing key phrases, important dialogue, cues when to describe this or that, etc.…

  • Friday’s Findings: 11.02.18

    Friday’s Findings: 11.02.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: How to Write a Horror Story: 7 Tips for Writing Horror How to Craft Your Characters’ Fears 5 Tips on Writing a Trauma Backstory Should You Include a Prologue in Your Story? 9 Genius Methods for Writing a Great Scene

  • Character Creations: Laying the Foundation

    Character Creations: Laying the Foundation

    I am having a blast creating characters for my NaNoWriMo project this year. I used some tools I haven’t applied in the past and I wanted to tell you about them. But first, a caveat: this is just for the beginning of character development. I believe in just laying a foundation for a character before…

  • Friday’s Findings: 10.26.18

    Friday’s Findings: 10.26.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: Bucket List for Writers Outline Your Novel the Incredibly Easy Way How to Prepare for Writing a Book: 4 Steps Writing Fiction: Stop “Writing”, Create Experiences Writing Is Selection

  • Friday’s Findings: 10.19.18

    Friday’s Findings: 10.19.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: 11 Ways to Write More Scientific Fiction: Lessons from Michael Crichton Realistic dialogue: Writing conversations using setting Finding Your Character’s Blind Spot How to Build Suspense In Your Story The 7 Deadly Sins of Novelists (According to Editors)

  • The Non-Rules of NaNoWriMo

    The Non-Rules of NaNoWriMo

    National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) whips aspiring writers up to writing a 50,000 word draft of a novel in the month of November.  I’ve been doing it off and on for ten years and I have about a fifty-percent success rate. By success, I mean I finish 50,000 words by November’s end. I can tell…

  • Tools I’m Using for NaNoWriMo

    Tools I’m Using for NaNoWriMo

    I haven’t done National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in four years. I got busy with other projects, but this year I’m in a position to take a break and enjoy the spontaneity  of starting a fiction novel from scratch. It’s an opportunity to rediscover the joy of creating something with abandon. If you haven’t done…

  • Friday’s Findings: 10.05.18

    Friday’s Findings: 10.05.18

      Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: 10 Obstacles to Writing a Book and How to Conquer Them What Is Purple Prose? And How to Avoid It The Hardest Thing with Writing Your Novel Journey How to write a positive change character arc

  • Surprise Appendectomy!

    Surprise Appendectomy!

    Usually, on Fridays i post Fridays Findings. But yesterday I had to go the hospital because I was in pain. I thought I was having severe indigestion or something worse but it ended up being my appendix. So, I’m sitting in the recovery room feeling much better now that it’s out of my body. Yes…