Take some time today to think more about What If questions. You can take them a step further by first thinking about your chosen genre. Ask yourself, what is expected from this genre? You could say, if mystery is your thing,…
A Look at the Snowflake Method – Part 4 of 4 Here is the fourth installment of the ten steps to writing a novel using the Snowflake Method. Steps one through eight were posted previously. Here now are steps nine…
A Look at the Snowflake Method – Part 3 of 4 Here is the third installment of the ten steps to writing a novel using the Snowflake Method. Steps one through six were posted previously. Here now are steps seven…
A Look at the Snowflake Method – Part 2 of 4 Here is the second installment of the ten steps to writing a novel using the Snowflake Method. Yesterday I posted steps one through three. Here now are steps four,…
A Look at the Snowflake Method – Part 1 of 4 I recently ran across a method of novel planning called the Snowflake Method. I’d heard of it before, but never seen what it is. It takes a seemingly…
It’s October, or for those in the WriMo Realm, its National Novel Planning Month. What are you doing about your novel? Do you have a plan? Do you know your characters? Their motivation? Their conflicts? Think about the stories and…
I can see a tiny swath of trees and sunshine from beneath the awning over my bedroom window. The leaves on the trees have begun to take on the sunshine-yellow hues that herald the start of fall. There must be…
My life always feels like a poorly conducted balancing act. No matter what my goals, there seem to be too many of them all clamoring for attention and I, loving them all, glance longingly from one to the other trying…
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