No, I’m not talking about Santa, I’m talking about the originator of The Snowflake Method of novel design, Randy Ingermanson! Randy is doing a workshop in Couer d’Alene this weekend. One of his other blog readers from my area contacted me, and now three of us will drive down this weekend to ‘sit at...
I’m getting a lot more out of Techniques of the Selling Writer this time. I’m a good way in, and I’m grasping the MRU thing a lot better. Applying it may a different story entirely, but it’s a start. I’m having a lot of fun putting in an extra chapter or two to my...
So, while I’m in the re-write of Gift of the Ancients, I’ve had my next novel somewhat on my mind. I plan to do Nanowrimo again this year, and I’d like to have a better fleshed-out Snowflake to work with this time. The story is called Windsinger, and I began it when I was...
In spite of annoying health issues, I did complete the re-write of the first five chapters in my novel Gift of the Ancients. Next week’s goal: write and edit the last two chapters of ‘book one’, also known as, ‘the beginning of the story’. I don’t know if I’ll keep the ‘book one’, ‘book...