Welp, it's been a crazy couple of weeks, my kid has been home because the daycare is closed, and even though I've been home a lot this week too, I haven't been able to accomplish a whole lot story wise. I still haven't met my last goal. In fact, yesterday is the first day I've… Continue reading 2020 – Week 12 and Covid-19
I met my goal this week and tweaked my latest scene, chapter 7 scene 2 which is the subject of my "Evolution of a Scene" series, which you can read about here, and I also have my first draft of the next scene about 75% completed. I don't know if I want to tack this… Continue reading 2020 – Week 10 and Tailoring Chapter/Scene Length to your Audience
I'd like to take you through my iterations of a draft, from first conception to final product. I've chosen one paragraph to do this way and dissect--the opening of my latest scene as of 7 March 2020. Hopefully, you will come to the determination that the final draft is a good one, and one that… Continue reading Evolution of a Manuscript: Part 1 – On-the-Go Scribble to Writing Space
I did not meet my writing goal this week! Grr! I got about half of the scene tweaked, but not all of it, and no editing. So I'll be spending some time this week doing just that and hopefully moving on to the next scene. I had a critique meetup this past weekend and we… Continue reading 2020 – Week 9 and Using Music to Invoke Imagery
I exceeded my goal this week, tweaking my dream sequence and not only drafted the first paragraph of the next scene, but completed the draft, adding another 1041 words to my running total. My manuscript is now over 32,000 words. My goal for this week is to tweak the new scene, and run it through… Continue reading 2020 – Week 8
I completed my goal this week to get my last scene ready for peer review and get my first draft of the dream sequence done. Yay! Well, I decided the dream didn't need to be a gigantic scene, it's only a couple of paragraphs, and with a little tweaking to the previous scene, I was… Continue reading 2020 – Week 7
I've made some excellent progress this week and exceeded my goal to fill in the missing pieces of the scene. The pieces are in and I've started my editing process. I'm currently on step 5. Every step reveals something that needs changing, something that doesn't look or sound right, or something that's still missing or… Continue reading 2020 – Week 6 “To Cut or Not to Cut”
I was able to get all 3 scenes edited and sent to a peer to review. I did add in a few more paragraphs to two of the scenes to add a bit more depth, and one of them now reminds the reader of a small detail in an earlier scene and hopefully makes it… Continue reading 2020 – Week 5 and “Agent Killers”
I only partially met my goal this week, but I feel that I made up for it by doing some additional new scene work. Last week my goal was to edit the last three scenes I've completed, and I made it to step 5 of my self-editing process, which you can read about here. As… Continue reading 2020 – Week 4
I met my writing goals this week, decided whose perspective the next scene would be, what would happen in it, and drafted my first paragraph. There are about 150 words so far, but I have a direction now, and I've found that accomplishing that is the hardest part sometimes. This scene is a continuation of… Continue reading 2020 – Week 3 and Scene Stacking
