Week 3 – Who’s Your Audience?
Now that you’ve come up with a story idea and have had some time to play around with it, the next step is to determine your audience. Who would read this kind of story? Here are some of your choices:
Literary isn’t really a genre but from everything I’ve read, no one has really given a [...]
Conflict in Life & in Our Writing
“Plot is characters under stress.” — Henry James, The Art of Fiction.
As you can tell from my recent posts, I have had my share of stress recently but that is all getting better.
I had a wonderful weekend. I spent Saturday with the Iowa Romance Novelists for our monthly meeting. Our program was fantabulous. Three members [...]
What Have I Been Doing This Week?
“Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope–a slight change, and all patterns alter.” Sharon Salzberg
I have had a slight change in my life this past week with my decision to give up my career as a Realtor. It was a very difficult decision for me to make because I really felt I was a good Realtor [...]
P.O.V Step 8
P.O.V. – Step Eight – Write a Novel with Me
As I developed the story and characters for this project, I had made a decision to try writing in the first person point of view. I was so excited to start writing that I automatically wrote the first chapter in third person. I realized it as [...]
Write a Novel Step 5 Victims and Villain
Since my last post, I have been trying to decide who my villain was so that I could develop him/her. It has been difficult because I had no clue as to his/her identity. All I knew was what I wanted my villain to do. So in the process I lost a victim and gained a [...]
Want to Write A Novel – Secondary Characters
If you have been following my blog, you know that the past few days, I’ve been working on secondary characters, specifically victims, because I am writing a mystery.
The how-to book I am using, suggested that my story have three crimes with three victims, haven’t quite got there yet. I have two crimes and two victims.
The [...]
Want to Write A Novel- Developing the Protagonist
By blogging about this topic, I do not intend to teach anyone how to write a novel. There are plenty of classes, by qualified teachers, you can attend and of course, you can read every single book about writing a novel you can get your hands on, like me.
I am following a book on how [...]
Want to Write a Novel – The Premise
This blog is a way for you to look over my shoulderas I write a book and to interact with me while you write your own. I left the last blog with a promise to write a premise for my story.
I guess I should have given some advice as to how to do it, just [...]
Want To Write A Novel With Me?
I started the 90 Day Challenge thinking that I could write a novel without any planning. I can’t. I need a story line and some kind of direction or it feels like all I’m doing is counting words.
I had signed up for the newsletter at Cheryl’s Learn to Write Fiction site and have received lots [...]
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