I’ve been keeping a writer’s journal/notebook/thing for years now. At first, I used a simple bound notebooks where I’d scribble stories, ideas for stories, freewriting, dialog snippets, and character descriptions. Later, I tracked submissions and notes on stories, freewriting, character…
Tag: writing process
NaNo 2010: Write In Motion
Word Count: 13289 for a total of 53,607 I originally wanted to post this recap of Saturday’s awesomeness on Saturday or Sunday but my brain was feeling a bit too fried. Doing it today also gave me the distance I…
NaNo 2010 Day Ten
Word Count: 2833 for a total of 25871 Revised Words: 5971 for a total of 29009 I’ve done it! I’m now on the backside of 50k words. I’m not sure if it’s all downhill from here but it does feel…
NaNo 2010 Days 5-8
Word Count: 2973 words today, for a total of 20353 Hooboy. What a weekend. I didn’t post anything mainly because I was busy with a Tarot Intensive that my friend Katrina Wynne was putting on. Pretty much ate most of…
NaNo 2010 Day Four
Word Count: 3013 words today, for a total of 11770 Today was funky. I woke up late, and had to attend to Real Life things before I could actually properly sit down and focus on anything. I did manage to…
NaNo 2010 Day Two
Word Count: 3077 for a total of 5644 Today I took the plunge and badly wrote a car race and wreck for my MC Julien. Basically, the goal was to kill him off so the real story starts. A friend…
NaNo 2010 Day One
Word Count: 2567 In 2008, while I went crazy and wrote a novel in a month by hand, instead of posting the whole thing live, I wrote about my writing experiences. This was partially based off a fellow writer (and…
Story ideas come from the strangest places
This year’s NaNoWriMo novel is based off an experience I had this past July. I was driving my car in town and speaking to my spirit guide. I was musing how such a guide ended up with me as their…
The Value of Tracking Scenes
Last night I attended a NaNoWriMo Plot Party where we discussed various techniques on plotting and drafting stories. One of the things that stuck with me was a small discussion revolving around the idea of scenes in novels. Taken from…
Summertime Fun Updates
So crazy month came and went and I’ve been spending the final weeks of August completing various projects. I got my level one certification with Katrina, started working on BATS items and Fall Equinox, and completed writing and sending in…