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 took a few minutes to read the info on what comes next at the NaNoWriMo site. Here are a couple of things to know: 1. Get your recognition. You earned it! Click here: So You Participated in NaNoWriMo… In…
It has been such a habit to post something daily for the last 6 weeks, that I find myself gravitating here with nothing much to say. I’m feeling a little post-project depression – even though I have a lot of…
“Dear Novelist, It is my pleasure to inform you that you have officially kicked ass this month.” ~Chris Baty …Your willingness to go out on a creative limb, to stand up and reach for an impossible goal, is an…
“There’s a lot of giggling to yourself, partially because by this point you’ve become slightly mad, but I think also because you’re free to really take yourself less seriously.” ~Ryan Dunsmuir “When week four shows up, I grit my teeth.…
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