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Rewriting is harder than I thought. I have an outline of my book, though it needs some scenes filled in that I couldn’t think of when outlining and planning it during the first half of this month. On the other hand, I’m no longer writing at the breakneck pace that I was during NaNo. Some [...]
Those extra scenes are the hardest to fill in. There are scenes that should happen, but you don’t know exactly where to put them, even with a ready-to-go timeline.
That’s where I am right now with my editing. Several scenes showing the fallout of the inciting incident should happen, but inserting those scenes in the novel [...]
When inspiration isn’t there, we can’t give up and move on with our lives. Relying on the muse alone is a disaster waiting to happen, for the muse can fizzle out at any time.
We have to grab our muses by the collar, strangle them until they surrender, and then get back to work. Sometimes–most of [...]
As a writer, I try to find the strange and make it believable in fiction. After all, reading is about escape from the outside world. Plunging into the adventure of a novel for an afternoon shouldn’t be jarred with thoughts of “Wait a minute, would that really work?” or “Why would he believe her?” or [...]
The first step in revising my novel (and here’s where I admit that the revising has gone untouched for several days–oops) is analyzing each scene and its place in my novel. For me, this involves writing down each scene and the major action on an index card. Let’s look at the last scene I copied [...]
Lots of writers just sit there and wait for the perfect story to write. As many of us know, this is a huge mistake, as inspiration doesn’t like whacking us on the head on a regular basis with ideas. I’m guilty of it; it’s why I quit the first draft of my very first novel [...]
I finished my first NaNoWriMo 2009 novel on the 14th. Even without rereading it, I knew that what was there was definitely not perfect, but salvageable. The basic story is there. That’s what matters. The prose is definitely far from perfect (those of you who have been reading Adventures in Wrimonia now know what one [...]
I’ll get back to the 20 things I need for survival list tomorrow. Today is special, though. I finished my NaNoWriMo novel at 73,006 words, and in honor of that occasion, I opened Microsoft Word. I don’t particularly enjoy using Microsoft Word (or most Microsoft applications for that matter). In fact, one of the few [...]
Writing is hard. As much as I love it, and as seemingly sane as writing keeps me, it’s hard some days. Writing wasn’t hard today because of the content I was writing. I actually had some idea of where I was going with the story, or as much of an idea as someone without an [...]
I’m still awake. Therefore this counts as the November first post.
NaNoWriMo has begun. My region has a dare to include a peach in our novels. (Your challenge: guess my region. It shouldn’t be hard.) Here’s my excerpt.
He poured himself a bowl of Cheerios, grabbed a peach, and sat down at the kitchen table. He fished [...]