Andrew M. Friday

Category: scene

  • How I got to my rough draft

    How I got to my rough draft

    Now I’m getting to the fun part! Sorry I haven’t published in a while. I have a good excuse: I finished the draft of the novel I started for 2018’s National Novel Writing Month. I’m calling it The Sentient and it falls under the genre of science fiction, more specifically, space opera. One thing I’ve…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • Friday’s Findings: 07.13.18

    Friday’s Findings: 07.13.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: How to Build Your Sci-Fi World What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Writing 6 Ways to Double Your Writing Speed Using the Ten Key Scene Structure to Frame Up Your Novel Why You Need Beta Readers

  • 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 04.27.18

    Friday’s Findings 04.27.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: 7 Stress-Free Ways to Handle Notes From Your Book Editor The Best Book Is the One You Can’t Remember Not Your Mama’s Character Descriptions 5 Ways to Structure (and Plot) Your Novel How to Write (and Read) a Good Fight Scene View my Consortium SF Series…

  • 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.…

  • Friday’s Findings 03.30.18

    Friday’s Findings 03.30.18

    Here are some articles on writing I’ve read lately: How Do You Find Time To Write? Essential Writing Advice from Virginia Woolf Frame Your Scene with Essay Structure How to Increase Your Income as a Fiction Writer in 2018 Visual Thinking View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.