Aug - 17th
Weekend Workload - Light but Productive
Posted at 10:16 pm | Filed Under E-Books, First Drafts, My Projects, Writing Fiction, Writing Nonfiction
I didn’t spend as much time on Three Weeks this past weekend as I’d hoped (only have a few pages down, but still moving in the right direction - while I “timed” my outlining, I’m not really doing that for the drafting, at least for now).
Other than that though, I did make some pretty nice [...]
Aug - 14th
One Page Down - A Few Hundred to Go
Posted at 11:49 pm | Filed Under First Drafts, My Projects, Writing Fiction
I finished all of this week’s planned client work early today as expected, meaning I’m officially on a long weekend at the moment. I decided not to waste it, but to get started on two business-oriented projects - one being to start drafting Three Weeks.
I’m thrilled to say that I did get started today (not [...]
Aug - 7th
Book Writing Break Coming to a Close
Posted at 8:09 am | Filed Under First Drafts, My Projects, Writing Fiction
I haven’t updated here in a little while - I’ve been taking a break from my bigger writing projects for a few reasons:
1. I’ve been focusing on clients.
2. I’ve been focusing on the transition from full-time PR work to full-time writing.
3. I had a long break in there due to some Mother Nature-related damage which [...]
Jul - 28th
Character Quirks and Novel Writing Software
Posted at 8:47 am | Filed Under Characters, Resources & Reviews, Writing Fiction
I may be taking a few weeks off before continuing with my next novel project, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about my projects or fooling around with some interesting tools, books, and such in the meantime. So I just thought I’d share a quick run-down of some of the things I’ve been [...]
Jul - 18th
Three Weeks - Novel Outline Complete in Just 9 Days!!!
Posted at 6:06 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction
Boy, am I happy! I was expecting my Three Weeks novel outline to be completed by Sunday evening. I thought I’d be busy all weekend with it. Instead, I finished it up today. Actually, it was all written up yesterday, but today I went back over everything, filled in holes, adjusted the order of some [...]
Jul - 16th
Getting Into the Head of Your Characters
Posted at 11:23 am | Filed Under Book Outlining, Characters, My Projects, Writing Fiction
While outlining Three Weeks, I’m doing what I can to get into the mind of my main character (Jillian). As the book involves her looking back over failed relationships, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately doing the same - trying to bring up old emotions for example. I posted about my efforts to [...]
Jul - 13th
Comparing 30-Day Novel Outline Plans
Posted at 11:57 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Resources & Reviews, Writing Fiction
I’ve mentioned this here before, but not in too much detail. When I launched this blog, I was nearing the end of one 30-day novel outline program for my book with a working title Sarah. With that novel outline (which finished up this past Saturday), I followed the plan detailed in First Draft in 30 [...]
Jul - 11th
Three Weeks Novel Outline - An Early Finish?
Posted at 11:45 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction
I poured through the rest of the 30-day plan’s worksheets and steps from Book in a Month today. As mentioned before, the plan is designed to help you outline and draft your novel, although right now I’m only using it for outlining Three Weeks.
I scrapped the character note cards I was going to be using [...]
Jul - 11th
Three Weeks - Novel Outline - Day 3
Posted at 4:03 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction
As expected, yesterday’s “scene cards” took more than one day (given that I used 17 instead of 10). Yesterday I took care of the first 10, and today I finished up the remaining 7. I also managed to get through Day 3’s tasks - a research list and an At-a-Glance outline. Given the way my [...]
Jul - 10th
Three Weeks - Novel Outline - Day 2 and Plan Deviations
Posted at 1:01 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction
I mentioned yesterday that I wouldn’t be following the Book in a Month plan exactly as it’s laid out in the book, so today I’m going to talk a bit about how I’m altering that plan to meet my needs for these 30 days, and more specifically how that will affect my use of “scene [...]
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