Category: novel planning
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Friday’s Findings: Keep It Simple
The best principle to keep in mind when it comes to making writing goals for the new year is this: keep it simple. I’ve broken my writing goals down in three ways: There. It’s that simple. I’ll come back here at the end of 2024 to see how I’m doing. Here are some links about…
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Some Advice for Writing a Series
As a member of The Writing Mastery Academy, I get to listen to a couple of webinars each month. These webinars feature guest authors, editors and others in the publishing field. This past weekend, I tuned into webinar with science fiction and fantasy author Scott Reintgen as guest. He spent an hour answering questions members…
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Dedicated Five Minutes
Rachel Aaron is a fantasy and science fiction author. My favorite two series she has written are the Eli Monpress books and the Heartstrikers. Photo by Moose Photos: https://www.pexels.com/photo/gray-double-bell-clock-1037993/
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NaNoWriMo 23: The Verdict
I’ll go ahead and say it: I didn’t win NaNoWriMo 23. Am I sad about it? Nope. During my first NaNoWriMo in 2008, I wanted to win so badly I could taste it. And I did win. I gained a lot of confidence in myself as a writer that year. And, to be honest, if…
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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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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,…
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Should I Do NaNoWriMo?
Should I do NaNoWriMo this year? Whether or not I do is in question. Here’s why: I’m currently working on three novels. Yes, I’m crazy. Currently, the momentum I have working on all three is going well. I don’t want to break it. I also have three or four outlines of potential novels. I want…
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Friday’s Findings: Writing Lessons from One Piece
I watched the new Netflix series called One Piece over the Labor Day weekend. I recommend it if you’re looking for both humor and drama. Being a pirate-themed show, One Piece has a lot of swashbuckling fun. Monkey D. Luffa wants the One Piece, a treasure hidden by the executed pirate Gol D. Roger. He…
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