Before I went to sleep last night I wrote a few hundred words in a scene where my main character’s cheek is grazed sparring in karate class. The near miss triggers her and she retaliates, out of control, not pulling and controlling her kick and she hurts her classmate. I also started sketching the next scene where her Sensei has to talk with her after class.
Category: Thoughts about Writing
bookmark_borderWriting Each Subplot Separately
My plan for my novel includes one primary inciting incident, followed by internal and external struggles, and ending with an opportunity for the protagonist to finish what was interrupted the first time.
bookmark_borderNoveling
It’s fun to be inside the world of a novel.
I haven’t been this far inside the creation of a new novel in a very long time. Around 2013 I started to focus on improving my prose which led to shorter works. At the time I had a novel in the works but I had difficulty with the ending so I put it aside. Last spring I picked it up and finished it, but finishing an old novel was a different experience than the creation process that I’m in now.
bookmark_borderMe, on CBC
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recently published an article I wrote: “We Let Our Father Die”.
bookmark_borderCheating Writers’ Block: Getting the Story Un-Stuck by Seeing Outside the Box
Looking from inside the character or story and trying to see what’s next can be difficult. Trying to visualize what is going to happen or what needs to happen based on tensions and history and theme is a lot like method acting except that the author has no script to follow. And yet as a pantser this is what I try to do to forage ahead in a story. Continue reading “Cheating Writers’ Block: Getting the Story Un-Stuck by Seeing Outside the Box”
bookmark_borderCheating Writer’s Block
Some claim writer’s block doesn’t exist. If you go all Zen it doesn’t exist but then neither does the writing.
bookmark_borderDangerous Writing App
Here’s a unique site I keep in my writing bookmarks.
If you don’t keep typing it will erase what you’ve done. If you hesitate, the font turns reddish-brown and fuzzy but it returns to normal if you begin typing again. If you don’t start typing as it is becoming fuzzier, a popup blocks you from adding any more words.
bookmark_borderThesaurus Alternatives
There a group of sites that I frequently use as thesaurus alternatives. They’re all created by the same person and use the same broad structure.
bookmark_borderWriting Fiction as if it were Memoir
There was something in Mary Karr’s “The Art Of Memoir” that stuck with me.
I listened to this as an audiobook from the library so it’s difficult to quote exactly but the specifics are less important than the process. She mentioned searching for a scene from her life that showed an example of her father and, something. How he loved her or some other other characteristic.
bookmark_borderStrengths and Weakness of your writing
What are your strengths and weakness as a writer?
You might look at:
- Characters
- Setting
- Plot