Overview: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is an intimate look at a philosopher’s wife, her husband, and eight children and their guests at a summer house. The young son wants to take the boat trip to the Lighthouse but the weather is not cooperating and he is very disappointed. The novel is told inContinue reading “RNLN Attempt 8: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf”
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Character-Building Challenge Day 2: Ten Question Interview
For the second day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge the prompt is to choose one of the character names from yesterday and ask that character ten questions. It’s going to be hard to choose just one. I liked a lot of the names I came up with yesterday, and they are all somehowContinue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 2: Ten Question Interview”
Character-Building Challenge Day 1: Names
Happy first of March. Today is the first day of the first Writer’s Digest Character-Building Challenge. The first prompt is to create ten character names. New Character Names For today’s names I used my Character Creation Spreadsheet and a random number generator. Middle names made a big difference to me this morning, and when aContinue reading “Character-Building Challenge Day 1: Names”
Reading Novels Like a Novelist Attempt 7: A Widow For One Year by John Irving
Procedural Tips I did it! I finally read A Widow for One Year by John Irving. I finally understand the title that’s been sitting on my shelf for what seems like forever. It took a half a day longer than I thought it would, and it felt like I had run a 10K when IContinue reading “Reading Novels Like a Novelist Attempt 7: A Widow For One Year by John Irving”
Reading Novels Like a Novelist Attempt 6: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Now that I’ve explored my process of Reading Novels Like a Novelist (RNLN) for a while, I thought I would combine my RNLN focus post with my Contradictory Abstractions post on Tuesday, but then we had surprise snow and the sun came out, so I took a snow day. Then yesterday was the Heron TreeContinue reading “Reading Novels Like a Novelist Attempt 6: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng”
Reading Novels Like a Novelist Attempt 5: Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey
Procedural Tips Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey is the first novel in this series that I read on my tablet. Using the Kindle functions were more difficult, even frustrating, on my tablet. When I attempted to highlight with my finger, the whole page moved. I had to place my finger, wait and then when theContinue reading “Reading Novels Like a Novelist Attempt 5: Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey”
How to Read Novels Like a Novelist (RNLN): How a Craft Book Can Influence Reading a Novel
The concept of this series of posts is to stop reading craft books, learning from other writers’ chosen examples, and learn from novels, choosing my own examples. However, I had one craft book from the library that I hadn’t finished, Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for the Page, Stage, and Screen by Robert McKee.Continue reading “How to Read Novels Like a Novelist (RNLN): How a Craft Book Can Influence Reading a Novel”
Reading Novels Like a Novelist Attempt 4: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Procedural Tips Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert was available as a free e-book on Project Gutenberg, so it is the first book in this series that I read on Kindle on my laptop. After years of reading on kindle, I finally looked at all of its great note-taking features and went through them on Monday’sContinue reading “Reading Novels Like a Novelist Attempt 4: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert”
How to Read Novels Like a Novelist (RNLN): Kindle Edition
Last week I “won” my first physical book (other than a coloring book) from Library Thing. Won is in quotes because it is actually an exchange for my volunteer labor of reviewing the book, but they call it winning. The coming book that will arrive in my mailbox is a poetry collection which I’ll needContinue reading “How to Read Novels Like a Novelist (RNLN): Kindle Edition”
Reading Like a Writer Attempt 3: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
Procedural Tips Since The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill was so different than the others I’ve looked at so far, I had to come up with another color code for my post-its and notes. I marked the beginning of each of the letters with orange, thinking that on second read it would beContinue reading “Reading Like a Writer Attempt 3: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill”
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