Second time around
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 Nanowrimo novel as I re-write it. I seem to do well on the whole big picture thing and can snowflake that, but all the interesting layers and details and little subplots that reinforce the big ones seem to come to me organically as I’m tying the bigger things together. I guess I work better creatively withing the boundaries of an established framework. I’m not putting the time into it that I’d like as there’s a lot of upheaval as our family is considering a major move, after a move just 11 months ago. Randy Ingermanson says that real writers write 3 hours a day anyway, even with life going on. With kids still home I consider myself part-time, and feel good if I write three times a week. It’s enough for now.