Andrew M. Friday

Category: fiction writing

  • Fleshing Out One-Dimensional Characters

    Fleshing Out One-Dimensional Characters

    NOTE: I dusted off some notes I took for a webinar, How to Revise Your NaNo Novel, from January 2016. Grant Faulkner hosted the segment on writing advice with guest speakers KM Weiland, James Scott Bell and Kami Garcia. The following was one of the questions asked. How do you take a one-dimensional character and…

  • What is the most important aspect of revision?

    What is the most important aspect of revision?

    NOTE: I dusted off some notes I took for a webinar, How to Revise Your NaNo Novel, from January 2016. Grant Faulkner hosted the segment on writing advice with guest speakers KM Weiland, James Scott Bell and Kami Garcia. The following was one of the questions asked. What is the most important aspect of revision?…

  • Friday’s Findings 04.20.18

    Friday’s Findings 04.20.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: John Keene: Elements of Literary Style Andrew Sean Greer Wins 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Your Ultimate First Chapter Checklist, Part 2: Writing the Opening Scene Three Techniques to Write Better Settings Fix Scene by Employing Black Box Analysis View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.…

  • Epiphanies in Writing, Part 2: Editing your Novel

    Epiphanies in Writing, Part 2: Editing your Novel

    I don’t want to rehash what you’ve heard and discovered for yourself as a writer: “Most of writing is rewriting”; “Show don’t Tell”; “Use spell check”; “Let it cool off before you start to edit.” All good stuff. Personally, I love editing. It’s a chance to play with words, accessorize my paragraphs and  paint word…

  • Friday’s Findings 04.13.18

    Friday’s Findings 04.13.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: Saying Goodbye to That WIP: When it’s Okay to Give Up on a Writing Project Are You Telegraphing Your Plot? Middle Scenes: A Non-Linear Approach How Self-Publishing Made Today’s Small Independent Presses Possible Start writing, no matter what View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.

  • Epiphanies in Writing, Part 1: Planning Your Novel

    Epiphanies in Writing, Part 1: Planning Your Novel

    Currently I am writing a series of short novels part of a series called CONSORTIUM. One epiphany I learned a long time ago was that no two writers use the same method of getting their story down on paper. And something else: A writer may not even use the same method two times in a…

  • Friday’s Findings 04.06.18

    Friday’s Findings 04.06.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: Loved ‘Ready Player One’? Check out these 8 Books Margaret Atwood’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction Amazon to Spend a Billion Dollars to License “The Three-Body Problem”? Using Third Person vs First Person Novel Narratives What Mystery Propels Your Novel? View my Consortium SF Series at…

  • Scrivener Tip: Keeping Track of Characters

    Scrivener Tip: Keeping Track of Characters

    I have many characters in my novel, both major and minor. Here’s the method I use in Scrivener to keep track of characters in my books series. My books are science fiction, so consistency in the odd spelling of non-Earth names is important–but I was going crazy trying to spell an alien’s name the same…

  • My Fiction Writing Toolkit

    My Fiction Writing Toolkit

    When I write, I motivate myself by reviewing some of my Fiction Writing Tools. For some reason they get me going. Below are articles from this blog that are sure to motivate you: Character Character Workshop Temptations to Avoid Conflict Conflict Workshop Description Describe an Object Ten Ways Dialogue Subtext Plot Hero’s Journey Three Act…