Today felt like the perfect time to drop another free writing tool for aspiring artists...
The Characterbuilder – My Personal Character Development Tool – Is Live on the Resources Page
Process in Progress #6 – I’ve Become a Criticism Vampire
Last night, I asked a friend if he hated my novel. To set this up, it was the one friend who isn’t in my writing group. I sent my MS to him weeks ago and he avoided talking about it. To me, that meant I was getting Ghost Read (my term for that phenomenon when... Continue Reading →
Process in Progress #5 (continued) – I Realized What Was Slowing Down My Edits: Me
Okay. I promise that I’m not stressed out. Edits didn’t go poorly. But they didn’t go poorly because I had a breakthrough . . . that took extremely long to hit me. “If you edit something for long enough, it stops getting better—it just starts getting different.” I don’t remember who told me that. Someone... Continue Reading →
Process in Progress #5 – I Need to Figure Out My Editing Process
Things That Happened While My Back Was Busted: I watched The Princess Bride, and in doing so discovered that . . . holy shit, Inigo Montoya is really the protagonist of that story. Like, the Han Solo factor of “Why am I not following this guy the whole time?” couples so strongly with his arc... Continue Reading →
Camp NaNoWriMo 2021: Week 12 (Bonus) – Memory, My Project for Camp NaNoWriMo 2021, Is Finally Complete
I . . . cannot even begin to express how I feel right now. On one hand . . . so happy. Ffs, I finally finished it. Two full months late, but still, I finally finished Memory. On the other hand . . . so tired. Why? Because I've discovered that when I'm writing a... Continue Reading →
Camp NaNoWriMo 2021: Week 7 (Bonus) – I Was So Close to the Endgame
Ugh. You guys, seriously, I am right there. I was fully intending on being stubborn and writing all night, posting at 4am that, "We're in the endgame now." But then I realized that what stands between me and that endgame . . . is the fight at the end of the second act. A fight... Continue Reading →
Camp NaNoWriMo 2021: Week 3 – A Time to Chill
Fun fact: I did not remember that A Time to Kill was a movie until I wrote the title for this post. Was not a pun, is not a pun: I have just come to terms with the fact . . . that I really need to relax. Week 3 was fine. In fact, Week... Continue Reading →
Camp NaNoWriMo 2021: Week 2 – Oh Yeah, I Jinxed It
I'm still writing. That's the important thing. But . . . man did I take a few hits this week. Hit #1 - Saturday I smacked right into another logistics question about a location. Basically, once again, I didn't thoroughly plot out the floor plan for one setting. Not because I didn't realize I should,... Continue Reading →
Process in Progress #4 – The “Promises Tally” Run
Hello! It’s been a crazy week for me writing-wise. The last time I talked about my outlining process specifically, I explained that I had a hyper detailed system for laying out my stories before writing them. This post is about how I tweaked that outlining system this week. And how it was super satisfying. If... Continue Reading →
Process in Progress #3 – My Villain Isn’t Palpatine (and, Seriously, Thank God)
I had to do my taxes this week. They just got away from me. I was definitely spoiled last year, able to get to them at the point I naturally would have (in June), so when I learned that they were due earlier this year, my brain just kept hearing "Not yet though," until days... Continue Reading →
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