Archive for August, 2009
Need More Cowbell
So I’m sitting here feeling out of sorts with my WiP. Is it exciting enough? Does it make a reader want to turn the pages? Are there any scenes that make me laugh or read faster the way The Bloggess does when she really gets going (and I’m all yeah I don’t know either). Is [...]
The Long and Short of It
I found a wonderful example of the purpose for varying sentences in our prose…the rhythm and pace of a passage that quickens, relaxes, engages, and quickens again. I have the example from Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. The example itself came from 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing, by [...]
Creative Momentum
I’ve never kept it a secret. I like edits the least when it comes to the writing process. I’m always tempted to do them as I go or to jump into them too soon. Maybe I think that will combat the fact that I feel inadequate to the task every time I sit down to [...]
When Characters and Writers Dream
I have it on good authority (several writing books, an agent blog or two, etc) that starting a story having the character wake up from a dream has been done to death (and so they please ask us to refrain). We mostly self-educated writers look to these authorities for guidelines. Are they just guidelines or [...]
Oops
So, a funny thing happened on my way to a completed rough draft.
This whole thing has been a bit experimental. New genre, new time period, yada yada. And I’m doing the scenes in YWriter because a member of my writer’s group loves it. Just thought I’d check it out.
So my friend/personal coach/web guy/encourager and I [...]
