Day 4 Word count: 6,350 words Word count goal: 8,000 words Mapping the Hero’s Journey: Call To Adventure Save The Cat: Debate I’m really enjoying meditating on the works of Akiya Kageichi for this project. They are so full of story inspiration. The second top image by Andrew Ferez made me think of the Chekov’sContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo Day 4: Antagonist’s Call to Adventure”
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#NaNoWriMo Day 3: Call To Adventure
Day 3 Word count: 4,393 words Word count goal: 6,000 words Mapping the Hero’s Journey: Call To Adventure Save The Cat: Set-up, Catalyst, Debate I love these images. The one on the left makes me think of the fool card from the tarot, jumping into his new adventure without worry of what’s ahead. The otherContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo Day 3: Call To Adventure”
#NaNoWriMo Day 2: The Antagonist’s Ordinary World
Day 2 Word count: 2,259 words Word count goal: 4,000 words Mapping the Hero’s Journey: The Ordinary World – Antagonist Save The Cat: Theme stated / Set-up I love this painting by Alex Rubio (first image on left). If you would like to learn more about his work, here’s a video on YouTube where heContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo Day 2: The Antagonist’s Ordinary World”
National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo) Day 1: The Ordinary World
Day 1 Word count: 0 words Word count goal: 2,000 words Mapping the Hero’s Journey: The Ordinary World Save The Cat: Opening image / Theme stated Welcome to the first day of your new novel. Today is all about that opening scene. What is your protagonist up to when first introduced? What is her dailyContinue reading “National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo) Day 1: The Ordinary World”
Planning For #NaNoWriMo: Plotting with Tarot
This will be my third adventure into National Novel Writing Month. My first two were “wins” as in I wrote 50,000 words in 30 days, however, they have stayed in their not-quite-fully-realized draft state since their conception and that is not what I hope for this year’s novel. Like my very first novel, this ideaContinue reading “Planning For #NaNoWriMo: Plotting with Tarot”
#Writober Day 31: Words magically open doors
This image is full of story potential. It makes me think of magical worlds like Narnia and Oz,but it also makes me think of all those great stories where the story an author is writing becomes real like Stranger than Fiction, Secret Window and In the Mouth of Madness. What story do you see? IsContinue reading “#Writober Day 31: Words magically open doors”
#Writober Day 30: The skeletons are out of the closets!
An invasion of skeletons. Are they only after you because you accidentally summoned them with a spell book or an ancient amulet? Have all of the science class skeletons risen up to take over the world? This image makes me think of the attack skeletons from Jason And The Argonauts but it also brings upContinue reading “#Writober Day 30: The skeletons are out of the closets!”
#Writober Day 29: Alien Invasion
Isn’t this image amazing? I love this creature. Such a great design and rendering. Last year, the alien image inspired me to write a story about the subtle reptilian invasion going on under our noses; co-workers and friends in human form until “the change”. This year, I’m thinking full-scale, violent invasion. A whole army ofContinue reading “#Writober Day 29: Alien Invasion”
#Writober Day 28: Underwater Living
I love these haunting images of life underwater. They make me think of Atlantis in decay. Maybe a gritty crime drama set in the underwater city. It makes me think of mermaids, but not The Little Mermaid kind. More like the scary ones from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I looked up scaryContinue reading “#Writober Day 28: Underwater Living”
#Writober Day 27: Watch what you wish for, it may show up in mutated ways
I don’t have much to say about this one. I’m listening to Nancy Sinatra and wanting my plant to eat all the people. Or maybe the (other) crazy geneticists have already made the Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) that will reach out and ask how you feel about them as they eat you back. That isContinue reading “#Writober Day 27: Watch what you wish for, it may show up in mutated ways”
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