Day 3 2017 is the call to adventure. Set-up, catalyst, debate. My main character has to decide if he’s going to run and hide, or head back to his childhood home. #vss365: grate Kirk saw something sparkle under the grate. He got down on his knees and pulled aside the rusted metal. He recognized theContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo 2019 Day 3: Playing with my prompts”
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#NaNoWriMo Day 6: The Point Of No Return
Day 6 Word count: 11,446 words Word count goal: 12,000 words Mapping the Hero’s Journey: Refusal Save The Cat: Point of No Return Plotting with Tarot I did a reading a bit off the book. Today, I focused on The Inciting Incident: The Inciting Incident: The Empress Upside-down – the emotional world, the sensual world,Continue reading “#NaNoWriMo Day 6: The Point Of No Return”
#NaNoWriMo Day 5: The Refusal and the First Week Sunday Summary
Day 5 Word count: 9,270 words Word count goal: 10,000 words Mapping the Hero’s Journey: The Refusal Save The Cat: Debate Today, I dove into my surreal images folder on Pinterest. Today my character will be convincing himself that his ordinary life is better than the call to adventure. He’ll be considering the structure heContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo Day 5: The Refusal and the First Week Sunday Summary”
#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”
Reading to Keep the Blues Alive
I recently received an email from author Ben Sandmel announcing that he is the recipient of the Keeping The Blues Alive award in Literature for 2015, presented by the Memphis-based Blues Foundation. Congratulations, Ben! If you, dear readers, are at all interested in history, biography, New Orleans, rhythm and blues, music in general, or evenContinue reading “Reading to Keep the Blues Alive”
Revision: Exploring my characters’ motivations
I love playing with simple photo editing software. All of those fabulous colors were in my photo just waiting for me to draw them out–slough off a bit of brightness, delete a bit of shadow, redefine the contrast and saturate the hues. Now, to apply the same principal (drawing out the good stuff) to myContinue reading “Revision: Exploring my characters’ motivations”
Getting Words on the Page – Three Tools to Increase Productivity
It’s almost time for me to print out the rough draft of my novel, to read through the whole thing with fresh eyes, as if I just brought it home from the bookstore. But first, I have a few more goals to accomplish: I WILL finish reading Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (I was bornContinue reading “Getting Words on the Page – Three Tools to Increase Productivity”
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