Monthly Archive:: December 2020
Over the past few days, with my new focus on matching my actions to my goals of finishing books and moving toward an independent income, I have been doing much better in the mornings. Even on the days that it …
I have my scene list almost complete after a longer than usual session this morning. Once again, I pushed myself past when I wanted to quit for the first time. Coming up with scene idea after scene idea and trying …
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what my goals are in life and the kind of life I want for myself, and one of the things that I keep coming back to is that I want to make an …
Now that I have a few major plot points, I am trying to fill in the intervening scenes. As I think of each one, I am trying to picture what might happen and make sure that each scene is worth …
Now that I have wrangled my outline and organization of this book to better serve my readers, I’m going back to rewrite the intro to make the book as easy as possible to use. This is my first attempt (with …
I’m still working on my scene list, and developing the characters, scenes, and world together, but it’s a little more challenging than I had anticipated. I have never tried to think of a story out of order before, so starting …
To be clear, it’s good madness. I love cooking traditional feasts for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, even though I’m in Japan. We’re roasting a chicken, since I’ve had a lot more success with those, and the size different in …
Today, I continued working on my list of scenes, mostly focusing on the conclusion scene and the action around that point. My plan is to set up a few tent pole/turning point scenes throughout the book based on the progress …
Today, I finally remembered as I sat down that I had to re-outline my non-fiction book, and got to work doing that, instead of trying to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic, as it were. I have rearranged the …
So, I’ve been trying to go light on the pre-planning and create my characters in conjunction with the plot as I go along. When I started, following the suggestions in 2k to 10k, I only created some of the major …