Writing
Almost there, folks
I’ve been trying to catch up with all my school stuff, and my online stuff for weeks. Today, I saw the far, distant end. I’m not there yet, but I’m getting there. I spent most of yesterday working on a piece for my color class, and I started on the piece for my drawing class. [...]
Igniting my writing fuel
I’ve talked about books as my writing fuel in the past. I’ve talked about how certain books spark the creative urge in me. But I always forget how it feels when I actually read a book that fills up my writing gas tank. I recently finished Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. By recently, I mean last [...]
What are your favorite character quirks?
The thing about people in general is that we all have things that identify us as a person. Like the way a person shakes their head when they’re frustrated, or how a person chews their food. These are things that set us apart from everyone else. And in fiction, we need these things to identify [...]
Writing Updates: Week 26-27
Week 26-27 of 2010 Writing Updates Project Title: Trick of the Coin (the planning experiment has a title, albeit temporary one….) Genre: Urban Fantasy Total New Words: 8271 Current Phase: Zero Draft Current Progress: 26219/95,000 Last Week’s Goal: 2,000 words Next Week’s Goal: 2,000 words Things That Happened in Fiction This Week: Writing in general [...]
Finding my space
I have a desk I sit at while I write, but sometimes, I’m just so swamped with the “I don’t wannas” or the “I don’t feel it” that I just can’t seem to keep my butt in the chair to write. Yeah, people tell me to force myself to sit there, and power through it [...]
The Planning Experiment: An update
I have no idea where I left you guys the last time I did a post specifically on my experiment with actually planning out a novel. I’ve made a lot of progress with it regardless. By now, I have the entire plot down. I read the book Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, which is [...]
How much is too much?
Backstory. It’s a tedious balance. Too much means you bore us with your info dump. Too little means we’re too lost to continue. Put too much information in the first couple of chapters and you lose your readers. Too little, and you lose your readers. Readers want to be entertained, not lectured. Also, we want [...]
Writing update: Week 25
Week 25 of 2010 Writing Updates Project Title: Trick of the Coin (the planning experiment has a title, albeit temporary one….) Genre: Urban Fantasy Total New Words: 2812 Current Phase: Zero Draft Current Progress: 11395/95,000 Last Week’s Goal: 2,000 words Next Week’s Goal: 3,000 words Things That Happened in Fiction This Week: If you actually [...]
Writing Update: Week 24
Week 24 of 2010 Writing Updates Project Title: UNTITLED – Currently referring to it as The Planning Experiment Genre: Urban Fantasy Total New Words: 853 Current Phase: Zero Draft Current Progress: 17,948/95,000 Last Week’s Goal: 3,000 words Next Week’s Goal: 2,000 words Things That Happened in Fiction This Week: So, I’m not really surprised I [...]
Kaz's Summer Camp: Week 2
I didn’t do well with the steampunk novella-turned-novel this week. I got about 7600 words, which I was hoping to be about 10-15k. But there’s this coming week and I need to flesh out some things about how I want to get James and Lily from Point A to Point C without hitting the very [...]
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