I am done with NaNo and I am not sick of my story. I am not. I refuse to be. I want to keep writing, I cannot wait to finish, to do a read through, ect.
I will not give up on these damn characters.
The Art of Notwriting: Revision Day Two: Giant List of Doom
In the interest of providing insight into my revising process (which is always the same), and possibly ideas for others trying to revise, I am blogging about revising as I go. This is a continuation of yesterday’s Revision Day One: The Read-Through.
So I did my read-through, I noted all the…
The Art of Notwriting: Revision Day One: The Read Through
After writing four complete manuscripts and several manuscript fragments, I can tell you with reasonable confidence that this is my drafting process: whatever works. Outline, no outline, partial outline, writing at home, writing away from home, writing in the morning, writing at night, having…
The Writers Helpers: Ransacking the Town: The Basics of Pacing
Anonymous asked: I feel like my story is going too fast. Within the first page, my character’s hometown is ransacked, but I’m not sure what I should do to slow down or transition to that.Although every writer runs into pacing trouble from time to time, there are a couple of key…
The Writers Helpers: Book List: Books with Children or Teenagers as the Main Character and/or Narrator (Either Full-Time or Some of the Time)...
Many lovers of the young adult fiction genre struggle to find adult novels/memoirs that have young main characters, but books for adults that happen to have a child or a teenager as the main character aren’t as rare as you might think!
If you’re looking for a book for adults…
I have decided I will finish a loose draft of my plot this month while busily pretending I am not taking the SAT on December first… but I am going to take a break from writing so much for a little while.
If you were unaware, I have been staying up very late almost every day this month to get my writing done. I can’t really get much done at school unless I happen to be in the “zone”, and I can’t seem to get to the thought process for my characters until it is dark outside and my thoughts have gone a bit wild from sleep deprivation.
And then I will continue to write at least 4,000 words a week until my novel is done. Over Winter Break I will try to write 2,000 words a day like I did during November.
After that, I will do one section of editing a week… and hopefully have most of the edits and rewrites done by the summer. (And then I can do Camp NaNoWriMo!)
In essence, I feel guilty that I wasn’t able to reach my goal of 60,000 and I’m very nervous about being lazy and forgetting about this story altogether.
I am done! Done! Fifty thousand words! I am done writing fifty thousand words!
i'm judging you: Twilight series theory - Twilight as a tragedy rather than a romance.
from a post on reddit:
Let’s put problems with spelling, grammar, narrative flow, plot structure, etc. aside and just look at the story and, in particular, the character arc of Bella Swan.
At the beginning of the story, she is moving from Arizona to…
This is brilliant.
(Source: reddit.com)
I’m less than 900 words away from 50k
