I’ve spent the past week toiling away on another project, and now I am back to working on Character Storylines for my sequel. There is a lot of work to be done here, but it is fun work, the kind of work that I most enjoy doing. 3:35 PM: Ok. I feel like I can…
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Liveblogging Thursday: Character Storylines
Well, here I am, on Step Five of the Snowflake Method. Can I just say, I am loving it? Here’s the thing about the Snowflake Method: it breaks your novel up into discrete chunks you can deal with. Trust me when I say that you cannot hold the plot of your entire novel in your…
Liveblogging Thursday: Pretty, Pretty Snowflakes
I am still working on plans for The Big Life: The Sequel. I thought today I’d try to work few a few steps of Randy Ingermanson’s Snowflake Method, which is a sort of well-known novel-planning guide bandied about on the interwebs. I definitely recommend clicking over and having a look, but essentially it is an…
Liveblogging Thursday: Let’s Talk About Sex
Today I thought I would work on plans for my second novel, the sequel to the Big Life. I have a few scenes written for it, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that I need a firmer plan. Two nights ago my writing group workshopped the first couple of scenes. And we wound up having a…
Liveblogging Thursday: One Sentence
So, earlier this week I talked about tanking my first scene. I’ve spent the intervening days making necessary tweaks to chapters 1-5 to account for this lack of first scene-age, but there’s still one remaining problem. The first sentence of Scene 2 is now the first sentence of the book. And while it’s a perfectly…
Liveblogging Thursday: Home Sick Home
Ok, sorry for punking out on the whole Liveblogging Wednesday thing yesterday. I had a lot of stuff going on, and people coming over in the evening. Suffice it to say, I dropped the ball. That’s ok, because today we have the new, better, extra special Liveblogging Thursday. Today I’m going to be working on…
Liveblogging Wednesday: In With The New
3:50 PM: And we have a very late start to Liveblogging Wednesday this week. Sorry about that. Today I plan to start on a new book. Not the sequel to my current book, but a whole new project, something Mark and I dreamed up during our what-would-you-do-if-you-had-to conversation last week. I’m still mostly interested in…
Liveblogging Wednesday: This and That, and Also Sex and the City
It’s time for another Liveblogging Wednesday. I’m having a hard time deciding what to liveblog today. I could work on revisions to my query letter. Or I could work on the initial pages for the sequel to my novel. But what I really, really want to write is a pan of Sex and the City…
Liveblogging, Fin (For Realsies)
Ok, whew. I’m back to liveblogging, and rather sorry for punking out on it last week. One of the plusses, and minuses, of a writing group is that it’s like writing with someone looking over your shoulder. That provides a lot of accountability, which is great, but it also provides a lot of pressure, and…
Liveblogging… Again?
I am going to finish this story if it kills me. Harold’s story has been a very difficult one for me to write. Dude is seriously the hardest protagonist I’ve ever worked with. Here are a few of the reasons: Harold is male, elderly, and severely handicapped. I cannot claim a lot of experience with…