This year’s theme for everything I’m doing on Experience Writing is Depth, so for this year’s daily posts in April I’ll be exploring the A-Z of Depth, and writing daily poems for Poetry Month about the A-Z of Depth. The word depth has many different and interesting meanings which I presented in my post “OurContinue reading “The A-Z of Depth”
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November Expectations
Writober Recap This Writober was a huge success. Thank you everyone who participated, linking up their images, poems, and stories. Your work was intriguing, thought provoking, entertaining, and fun. And you kept me inspired to keep working every day. Congratulations to Circe of Baldacchino di Perla, ladyleemanila, Carol anne at Therapy Bits, and A.M. MoscosoContinue reading “November Expectations”
Happy New Year! Welcome to Experience Writing 2023
I came across this video this morning, and it really spoke to me, so I wanted to share it. I named last year “The Year of Finishing Novels.” I dove into studying goal setting and motivation, from tiny habits to atomic habits. And it worked for a little while. But I found, like the videoContinue reading “Happy New Year! Welcome to Experience Writing 2023”
#NaNoWriMo : Futurism & NaNo Prep 101
This year, I started thinking about my National Novel Writing Month novel early, so I’m participating in NaNo Prep 101. This will be my sixth NaNoWriMo and I’m going to attempt my first sci-fi novel. This is the first week of NaNo Prep 101 “Develop a Story Idea You Are Passionate About.” My idea wasContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo : Futurism & NaNo Prep 101”
#WriterinMotion – Playing with some plots
There are many different ways to approach plotting and I have studied and tried a bunch. Most plots, and thus outlines, follow a form of Three Act Structure and I have found that this is true for short form as well as long form. I’ll start with The Hero’s Journey. Using ideas from Arwen Lynch’sContinue reading “#WriterinMotion – Playing with some plots”
#WriterinMotion – the brainstorm
After my first thoughts, I printed out the image on a nice piece of matte photo paper. The colors printed even more vibrantly and got me thinking about color meaning and how I will use the colors in my story. I recently talked about specifics of color naming and thought I would start there. TheContinue reading “#WriterinMotion – the brainstorm”
Fantasy, Horror and Sci-Fi. Oh my!
Just when I thought I had run out of paying markets for the planner, I happened upon Locus, a journal that reviews speculative fiction journals which expanded my knowledge of available paying markets. Speculative Fiction Speculative fiction includes: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Horror, Slipstream, Weird, Bizarro, and more. Curious what slipstream is?Continue reading “Fantasy, Horror and Sci-Fi. Oh my!”
The Deadlines: Collecting and organizing
I made a breakthrough over the weekend. I entered the information I’ve been collecting about different literary magazines and their reading windows into a spreadsheet. Now I can easily sort all of the reading periods by deadlines and what month I want to include them in my planner. I also added spreadsheet pages for contests,Continue reading “The Deadlines: Collecting and organizing”
Realistic Goal Setting vs. Creative Chaos
The Chaos Moments after I published my last post with realistic reading goals that I would put in my planner for January, I went to the library and checked out twenty-five books that were not on that list. I’m glad I did. There’s nothing wrong with my reading gluttony. I should not have imagined IContinue reading “Realistic Goal Setting vs. Creative Chaos”