Andrew M. Friday

Category: novel planning

  • A Sneak Peek into How I Set Up My Scrivener for Writing Fiction

    A Sneak Peek into How I Set Up My Scrivener for Writing Fiction

    If you are a writer–either a veteran or an aspiring or somewhere in-between–you’ve probably heard other writers gush over the writing software named Scrivener. When I finally purchased it, I said to myself, “I should have started using Scrivener sooner.” Most fans of Scrivener agree. The best part of Scrivener is its versatility. You can…

  • Friday’s Findings 06.01.18

    Friday’s Findings 06.01.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: One Is Always Writing or Should be Writing 5 Steps to Ensure Your Novel is a Bestseller in its Genre How to Avoid Flat Characters How to Write a Book When You’ve Got Writer’s Block 5 Productivity Tips: Avoid Distractions And Write More Explore the Consortium…

  • Friday’s Findings 05.11.18

    Friday’s Findings 05.11.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: Conveying the Senses of Place to Our Readers 9 Ways to Create a Rock-Solid Writing Habit Why Writers Need to Perfect Their First Thirty Pages You’ve Got to Work It Over Plot Points: A Storytelling Exercise View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.  

  • 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 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…