Andrew M. Friday

Tag: Sean Platt

  • Friday’s Findings: How to Write Fast

    Friday’s Findings: How to Write Fast

    Some writers imagine the writing process as slow and meticulous. They take their time composing that first draft, lingering over it for months, maybe years. These writers are tortoises and they don’t mind. However, in How to Write Fast by Sean Platt and Neeve Silver, the writing process is the hare, not the tortoise. They…

  • NaNoWriMo Day 5: the 3rd step

    NaNoWriMo Day 5: the 3rd step

    Just to review, here’s my NaNoWriMo plan: Step 1: Write one complete sentence summarizing each scene Step 2: Turn each sentence into a five sentence paragraph. Step 3: Turn each paragraph into five paragraphs. (I’m writing step 3 in red to help it stick out) Step 4: Turn the five paragraphs into a narrative (Not…

  • Friday’s Findings

    Friday’s Findings

    While being at home this week, I took a Udemy.com course called How to Plan and Outline Novels (Using Scrivener). I loved the simplicity of how the instructor, novelist Sean Platt, broke down the novel writing process. And I got a lot of great ideas for using Scrivener. The course is only about two hours…