So I’m listening to the lectures of Randy Ingermanson’s Fiction 101 course on my Ipod Nano and getting a lot of housework done. I think before when I went through it a few times I was a pre-Freshman writer. I would listen and glean a fair bit, but I didn’t take myself very seriously...
I’m amazed at how effective the Snowflake method of designing a novel is. I have never had a story take shape so quickly and with so little agony. It seems that cutting out all the futile guesswork allows deeper, better aspects of the story to surface much more quickly. Nanowrimo (for which I am...
Having decided to go with juvenile fantasy for the novel I’m writing in November for Nanowrimo, I’ve made the somewhat awkward choice to go with a nom de plume. I already have inklings of a possible series within the storyworld, and while I’m still figuring myself out as a writer, I’d rather have a...
It’s a weird thing to say, and even stranger to do, but the title above refers to National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50 000 words between Nov 1 and Nov 31. Quantity is the focus, not quality, although it’s recommended to go into it with some outlines and planning done....