Category: my novel’s progress
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Writing Instruction Books I Want to Read Again
In my last post, I pulled out a quote from a book called The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman. It made me realize I haven’t read that book in many years. It also made me realize I wanted to read it again. Then I decided to make a list of books on writing instruction…
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A Hard Question
This is from Noah Lukeman’s book The First Five Pages. I read that a long time ago. It’s one of those books I want to read again. I feel I’ve grown as a writer and I’m curious if the book would mean more to me now. Photo by Leeloo Thefirst: https://www.pexels.com/photo/question-mark-on-crumpled-paper-5428826/
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NaNoWriMo Update: Playing Catch Up This Weekend
Last Saturday I came down with Covid symptoms. First time ever (as far as I know). For the next few days, I wrote only a little. Result: got behind in my word count. I’ve been off work all week, so I wrote all week and got ahead, right? Nope. Like I said, I wrote very…
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Just Finished: Quiet-The Power of Introverts
I wish someone had told me what this book talks about when I was I kid. I would have known it was okay to be who I was. Recommended for introverts for understanding themselves. Also recommended to parents, educators and managers, whether an introvert or extrovert, for understanding that segment of society that is constantly…
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And We’re Off: First Day of NaNoWriMo 2023
I belong to the writing community of Writing Mastery Academy online and I wrote this in the National Novel Writing Month discussion group this morning: “I woke up about 10 minutes before midnight, and figured I should go ahead and do a couple of word sprints. I got about 800 words in one hour, which…
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Terrible First Efforts
Bird by Bird Photo by Klaus Nielsen: https://www.pexels.com/photo/broken-egg-scattered-on-table-in-kitchen-6294191/
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Spooky Reads for a Spooky Season
A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City If you liked Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, you will like this true crime story. Set in the neighborhood of Old Louisville, one Victorian mansion has a sordid history. Author David Domine follows the murder investigation and trial of two men who lived in this…
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Friday’s Findings: Books on Writing
I’d like to share two books on writing I’ve recently purchased: Save the Cat Writes a Young Adult Novel by Jessica Brody Brody expounds on the Save the Cat beats with young adult novel examples. Even if you don’t write YA novels, or even if you are a pantser, you can probably mine out some…
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Friday’s Findings: Two Column Method to Drafting
I’ve discovered a way to create a rough draft more quickly and conveniently. Sometimes, I’ll have a page of notes about a scene I want to write. But going back and forth from the page with my notes to the page where I’m composing my rough draft slows me down. I tried a split screen,…
Andrew M. Friday 