You're beginning to falter. Tearing your hair out and your story apart. Looking for reasons to procrastinate rather than write. Sighing often. Telling yourself why bother. Don't worry. It's not you. You're at the Crisis point in the month-long quest to write a story with a plot from beginning to end. Nearly 3 weeks in makes for the 3/4 mark of the month and as you know, the 3/4 mark of anything, according to the Universal Story is the Dark Night -- a time of breakdown for a possible break …
Weeklong Blog Tour for PlotWriMo: Revise Your Novel in a Month beginning December 1st
Thanks to a very generous benefactor, we are taking PlotWriMo: Revise Your Novel in a Month on what appears to be developing into a massive blog tour beginning December 1st through the 5th!Seven years ago, I began offering the beta version of PlotWriMo for novelists who were word drunk from NaNoWriMo. Over the years I continued refining and perfecting the steps to help writers revise all those words generated in November into a compelling story with a plot (and all other novelists and …
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Where You Need to Be Now for NaNoWriMo — End of Week 2
In an earlier post, I shared how to schedule your writing time during NaNoWriMo and the month of November. This is to help give you an idea of where you need to be each week. I want to ensure that you're not simply writing lots of words but writing to reach the climax of your story by month's end. Where you need to be now for NaNoWriMo end of week 2 is one of the major turning points in your entire story and the second Energetic Marker. End of Week 2 Tomorrow marks the end of Week 2. This …
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Characters in Action-Driven and Character-Driven Stories
Just as some writers excel at creating believable - intriguing characters in character-driven novels and others at creating exciting - meaningful action in action-driven novels, some characters are better at opening up and showing emotion in stories while others excel at taking action. With the belief that we write best when we understand our writing strengths and weaknesses, I include how to determine whether you're an action-driven writer or a character-driven writer or a …
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Where You Need to be Now for NaNoWriMo
In an earlier post, I shared how to schedule your writing time during NaNoWriMo and the month of November to give you an idea of where you need to be each week and ensure you're not simply writing lots of words but writing to reach the climax of your story by month's end.Today marks the end of Week 1. This means you should be writing the End of the Beginning scene today and prepared to write into the middle to the exotic world of the antagonist beginning tomorrow.For help about the Energetic …
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