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It seems like almost every book on writing craft makes at least one reference to The Wizard of Oz (the film, not the books), and it's often a prominent example. I finally picked up Debra Dixon's GOAL, MOTIVATION, CONFLICT, and she suggested a rewatch. Thi ...
There's been a bunch of talk in my spheres lately about what folks are reading to learn about their craft. I found a bunch of new things to explore, and I figure I should share. This week I'll post about the blogs I follow, and later I'll go into the book ...
Hopefully you're reading this post in your inbox. If you are, that means I got my auto-emailer settings to work! Hooray! You're subscribed to get an email every time I update. (If you change your mind you can always unsubscribe at the bottom of this email ...
Today I'm going to introduce a little beastie I call The Monster Structure Worksheet. That led me to create my own. A full explanation of what I did and why can be found on the worksheet's new home, a page specially made for it. Over time I'll update it ...
A few weeks ago Ms. Lovett (@lovettromance) urged me and some of the others in our writing group to hop into a Twitter chat (#rwchat, more on that later). She's become very involved, not only in participating but in helping to organize and run these weekl ...
It's a common lament. "I've already done all this work! Now I have to backtrack and throw it out." My friend, you are not Penelope perpetually unraveling her weaving at night so she can redo the exact same section the next day. Penelope never wanted to ...
You might think this is a NaNoWriMo-only rule, and you would be wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. When you write, your brain is working. Sometimes it associates ideas that don't belong together. Maybe you realize at some point that, cool as laser beam-blasti ...
Or rather, an ode to Bridget. BRIDGET JONES helped keep my sanity intact on a very long flight. (Johannesburg to JFK is about 17+ hours.) I had bought it and THE EDGE OF REASON at the airport and I'm so glad I did. Every minute accounting of fat cells ...
This has been driving me crazy for months: how do you change the size of text in Scrivener's Inspector? Today, Celal Öney provided the answer. He calls himself a Scrivener Expert, and he really does know his stuff. Control over the Inspector Turns out, ...
My writing group has several Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans, so for New Year's we decided to marathon. It was a lot of fun, and I've continued watching. I've tried doing a full rewatch before and never got very far, but I think I'll make it this time. B ...
When I was a little girl, I looked for echoes of myself on television. I didn't do this consciously, but looking back I can clearly identify what I was doing. Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers? I liked Gadget. Tail Spin? Rebecca. Rugrats? Lil. Batman? Har ...
Well, it took me until almost the 11th hour, but I made it. This year I managed to stay above par almost the entire month. I built up a four day buffer. I lost it over the Thanksgiving break. Pies (from scratch, mind you) Turkey Day Very C ...
Today I broke 44k, which means my win is within the week. According to the official site calculations, I'll finish on the 25, which is a very comfortable win and right on target for my goal of 55k by the end of the month. Oh yes, I may finish early but I ...
Whaddaya know? 14 chapters and approximately 100 pages in, I hit a slump. There's this theory that says that about 100 pages into a novel, most people hit a wall. It's around the 20-25k mark. Coincidentally, this is typically in the second week of NaNoWr ...
So, I might be cheating just a little bit. The official rules for NaNoWriMo state: Just be sure to only count words written during the month. Now, I have about 15k of a previous draft of GISELLE sitting on my hard drive. It covers quite a bit of the sa ...
So, how's that fancy graph thing working out? Not. So. Hot. As you can see, I'm well below the plan. But, Days 1 and 2 both managed to beat the daily minimums, so there's that. Day 1 was a blast. We held a midnight KOP at a diner and I wrote over a th ...
While checking out the competition browsing our neighbor regions I came across a link to The Pacemaker. It's a super nifty little words-per-day calculator. Set your target word total, designate when you'll be most and least productive, and voila! For ...
Last month I heard that Octavia Butler's XENOGENESIS TRILOGY, aka LILITH'S BROOD, is in development as a TV series. At the time I had yet to read anything by her, and I figured this was a great opportunity to start. So I bought the first book and got stuc ...
I first heard about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in 2003. It was my senior year of high school and I was game to try. I was, after all, preparing for a career as a novelist. The project I started, still known as UNTITLED MOBSTER CAPER, has nev ...
Scrivener does a lot of nifty things. I think most people are aware by now that it has a cork board/index card function. Each text file has an accompanying information card, where you can put things like a description of what the file contains. These card ...
In Part One of this mini-series I shared how I use Label colors in Scrivener to show progress of my documents. This worked really well for me during UNCHURCHED, which is a single POV. My trouble began when I started work on GISELLE, which has two POVs. Su ...
A few months back, I shared this tweet: Trying a new approach to revising in @ScrivenerApp #amwriting #amrevising #amgettingdesperate pic.twitter.com/imd6SxggvZ — Bronwen Fleetwood (@bronniesway) April 13, 2015 It was retweeted by @Scrivenerapp and ...
I haven't written fanfiction in years, but there was a time when it played a big role in my life. Way back in the dark ages, also known as the late 90s, early 00s, I was a tween. We weren't called tweens then, that slang hadn't become popular yet. I ha ...
I've been tagged for the 7/7/7/ #PitchWars Challenge by Verna Austen. Here are the rules: Go to page 7 of your WIP. Scroll down to Line 7. Share the next 7 sentences in a blog post. After the excerpt, tag 7 other writers to continue the ...
