November is National Novel Writing Month. The aim is to write the first 50,000 words of new fiction, from scratch. There are allowable tweaks and rebellion versions, but this year, I went for the plain, old, NaNo. My 8th attempt. …
NaNo17 :: Days 19 – 25
This is my eighth year taking part in National Novel Writing Month. If you missed the first eighteen days, Click Here for Part I, and Here for Part II. This was week 3-to-4 of NaNoWriMo, and we have 5 days …
NaNo17 :: Days 11 – 18
This is my eighth year taking part in National Novel Writing Month. If you missed the first ten days, Click Here for Part I. This was week 2.5 of NaNoWriMo. Aim for Day 18: 30,000 My Count on Day 18: …
NaNo17 :: Days 1 – 10
This is my eighth year taking part in National Novel Writing Month. I began a whole new setting, character collection and plot idea. I always feel stunted in plotting until I’ve written the first couple of scenes, so on Day …
NaNoWriMo 2017: Outlining
With under three weeks to go until National Novel Writing Month begins, the Sunday night #storycrafter twitter thread got us all chatting about our outlining process. This will be my eighth #NaNo in nine years, and I’ve defintiely tried a few different ways …
Ready Player 3: Character Swapping for Fun and Profit
Today we have a guest post from Ellie Di Julio; author of the Forgotten Relics series, about how she picked point of view characters in her latest book. I’m going to let you in on a little authorly secret. Ready? When …