Each year I participated in an online writing class, the goal of which was to write a novel in 2 and half months.
Each of the three years prior to the present I began writing a novel, duration of
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Well, it’s the Holidays, and I’m not up to writing.
Sounds fair enough.
But hold on, not so fast.
I will agree, the month of December during which the Western world, and some places in the East,
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Transitions constitute an important part of writing fiction.
There are the ones that allow for dips back in time, memories or flashbacks, as we like to call them. And then there are those
The month of November has ended. And so goes with it the time of NaNoWriMo.
Yet while the month draws to a close the experience does not. It will never leave me. Or shall I say I will never
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While some are daunted by the daily word count asked of us (1600) during NaNoWriMo, the positive aspect of this entire venture is to simply write. …
Such a high word count due to the compression of time (one month) leaves little time to think, which for me, is where the inner critic slips in
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Describing an experience or person as bad or terrible will not suffice in fiction writing. Writing that the foster parents in a novel are mean or horrible does not flesh out the unique idiosyncrasies of their formidable personalities. Let us turn to the context of the orphan in a less than ideal foster home.
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Should the protagonist not appear, in court when summoned, the judge renders a default in favor of the opposing character, whether they be defendant or plaintiff. The character has failed to present and/or make her or his case for a story. And so has the author. All forward motion of plot ceases. No story exists,