Tag: storytelling
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Testing Limits
Flash Fiction Practice “What are your limits?” “How much will you put up with? What will send you over the edge? I mean, REALLY over the edge? To the point of murder?” I tried to focus on my work, but her questions kept popping in my brain, uninvited, until I no longer remembered what I…
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Schedule vs Habit?
Do you schedule your writing sessions or try to make writing a habit? Which one works for you?
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Maybe I Need to Grow Up as a Writer?
Celebrate the little things. Today I played in the imaginary world I’m creating and am happy that I did.
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Adding Inventory To My Magic Bakery
One of my favorite writing teachers is Dean Wesley Smith. In this blog I share what I’m learning about discoverability from his book The Magic Bakery.
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Getting back to the writing…
No excuses for the absence, other than “life”. That, and the seemingly never-ending battle with The Editor (a/k/a my critical voice). So, we have a truce. She’ll try to let me be, and I’ll let her have her way every so often as I’m writing. I’m a methodological pantser (see video below), so when I…
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DIY Story Structure Guide
Slowly, ever so slowly, I’ve been working on a story structure guide for my personal use. Thanks goes to novel editor Ellen Brock for the suggestion. She recommends that Methodological Pantsers (a description that describes me to a “T”) put together their own structure guide taking a “mix and match” approach for the different naming…