October is right around the corner which means some fun daily challenges I participate in are coming up. I hope you’ll join me. Writober Writober is a daily flash story challenge with image prompts. I set up the daily prompts on a pinterest board, so you can see them all at once and jump aroundContinue reading “October Challenges: #Writober and #OctPoWriMo”
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#NaNoPrep 101 Week Two – Creating Characters
This second week of NaNo Prep 101 is titled Create Complex, Believable Characters . The exercise provided includes character questionnaires that you may find useful, but the final three questions are the most important: Want Need Internal/External obstacles Where I begin my characters Weeks ago when I began the Writer In Motion Challenge, I talkedContinue reading “#NaNoPrep 101 Week Two – Creating Characters”
#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 : The final draft
This week I received feedback from professional editor Jeni Chappelle of Jeni Chappelle Editorial. Jeni is the co-creator of this challenge as well as #RevPit on Twitter. I want to thank her for her time, encouragement and suggestions. Here it is. The final draft! The Bear’s Breeches Smell Slightly Sweet As They Rot I hadContinue reading “#WriterInMotion : The final draft”
#WriterInMotion: Critique Partners’ Feedback Revision
This week was exciting. I sent my story to two people and received their stories to critique. Based on their feedback I made revisions, creating this new draft of my story that will now go to a professional editor. Before talking about the changes, I want to thank Neta of NetaQBlog and Nicole of TheContinue reading “#WriterInMotion: Critique Partners’ Feedback Revision”
#WriterinMotion: The Second Draft
The Bear’s Breeches Smell Slightly Sweet As They Rot I never saw a man’s face change so fast. He stepped through the door, blocking our view, still laughing with his son. Then he saw me. “You,” he said, then door. “Who is it, Daddy?” from inside. “That rude trespasser from the other day.” Josette scowled upContinue reading “#WriterinMotion: The Second Draft”
#WriterinMotion Week Two: revision plan
For once, I overwrote. I have a story that needs to be told in less than half as many words, so I thought I’d spend a little time and create a plan for this first revision. This Week’s Revision Plan First steps: print out the story read aloud highlight best lines/parts cross out parts IContinue reading “#WriterinMotion Week Two: revision plan”
#WriterinMotion: The Bear’s Breeches Smell Slightly Sweet As They Rot
I thought I would keep writing about process and tools for the rest of the week, but once I let my character’s speak, the draft consumed. It’s long and could be much longer. I see this idea like a House of Sand and Fog meets child services and the now of crazy, but it’s justContinue reading “#WriterinMotion: The Bear’s Breeches Smell Slightly Sweet As They Rot”
#WriterinMotion: Outlines and other pre-drafting thoughts
Outlining Last year, as I was reading a couple books to help me finally get a handle on how to use all the bells and whistles of Scrivener, I set up a template with the Save the Cat beats as my chapter sections and created an idea section that includes all of the different plotsContinue reading “#WriterinMotion: Outlines and other pre-drafting thoughts”
#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”
Experience Writing 