Tag: Novel
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The Hero’s Journey is Not the Only Story
The monomyth is all. All hail the monomyth. In the late eighties, just I was reaching the point where I realized I wanted to be a writer, the Hero’s Journey was top of mind. Joseph Campbell’s work of the past several decades had influenced the halls of fantasy and sci fi in ways that gave…
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Revisions Again and All the Sorrows
I tried to do it the other way this time. With Dreamer’s War, I printed out the entire novel and had a great time tearing it apart with gel pens. However, when it came to type that it in, well, it more than sucked. I told myself that I learned my lesson and would get it…
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Slipping Out Into the Void
I’ve sent out Dreamer’s War again. A few places. I need to buy stamps so I can send out some snail mail submissions. The Manali story has been declared done, so out it goes as well, though I’ve finally settled on a title, Water Child. I’m trying to decide what to write next. I’ve got…
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Sent Out!
I’ve started subbing Dreamer’s War today. Progress!
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Query Letter Hell
I know it’s been quiet here. I’ve been wrestling with write a query letter. The pitch part has eluded me so far, though I think I’ve almost got it. I want to give DR it’s best chances of getting to the reading stages. I think I have a strong beginning and the synopsis is shaping…
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Writing
Many of you know I’m working on a novel. I’m working on line edits, and have some minor revisons based on beta reads I’m waiting on. It’s almost done. I’ve been working on this novel for 10 years. Why so long? Well funny enough a bachelors in English does not give you much insight on…
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I Finished a Novel
On Friday, I finished line edits on my novel and I set it out to be read one more time. I’m pretty confident it will be one more time. A person could come back and tell me it makes no sense at all or my characters all suck. That could happen, but I don’t think…
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NaNoWriMo 2010 Thoughts
So we have three days till NaNoWriMo begins. I have an outline and my idea is going to be fun. This is my 7th year as an ML and my 9th doing NaNo. I have three wins in all that time, but a lot of material. This year I have an outline and a manuscript…
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CPGO: Step 4 – Setting Sketch
At this point I’m diverging from BiaM and You Can Write a Novel. Both mention setting briefly. Smith goes as far to suggest treating settings like a character. Instead, I’m leaving these books at the wayside for now and concentrating on the setting sketch from FDi30D. I know where BK will be set. I’m listing…
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A Crazy Person’s Guide to Outlining: Step One-The Idea
Time to do another outline. I feel like I must be a schizophrenic outliner. I have a bunch of books on the subject, I tend to pick and choose through them, and I edit the outline as I go. When I first discovered that I wasn’t a “pantser” I found my characters went left, a…
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Deadlines
So the very bizarre cramps continue. I feel okay today, just woozy. Haven’t felt like eating, then I gorge. This isn’t good. The weekly deadlines for video game writing has seriously cut into my novel writing time. I’m nearing the end of this section though…really it’s been fun. With the larger beast being in paperweight…
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Getting Notes Together
I’ve made the second WW goal. Which means I’m at a total of 10lbs loss. I’ve been her before….hopefully I’ll get past that. For some reason Hypothyroidism and PCOS have a lot of hypochondriac glommers on. I hate going to PCOS and thyroid boards and lists. There is some crap being slug around by idiots…