Sep - 3rd
Three Weeks - My Biggest Hurdle So Far
Posted at 10:27 pm | Filed Under First Drafts, My Projects
I’ve been trying to get back into the groove of working on Three Weeks (the humourous novel I’m working on for anyone new). I’ve definitely run into what’s likely to be my biggest hurdle in novel writing, with this project and future ones. I need to find a way to get past it.
That hurdle is [...]
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 - 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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