Monthly Archive:: June 2020
I’m not sure if this is the right thing to do, and I won’t know until I actually start working on the draft, but one thing I wanted to do was to have storylines for each of my characters. I …
So, it wasn’t completely accurate yesterday to say that I had finished my coaching project. Rather, I had returned my comments to my clients and was waiting for their review and replies. I just didn’t expect them to get back …
Thanks to renewed drive over the past two days, I have been able to churn through the remaining coaching projects and get back to my writing with a vengeance! I am still working on plotting my hero’s emotional arc with …
Today, all of my writing time – and then some – went into the coaching project that is standing between me and getting back into the plotting process. Interestingly enough, when I have something standing between me and writing, I …
I thought I was going to finish my current coaching client’s project and get back to the writing after a day or two, but in the meantime, a second request came in, so it’ll be a few days more. In …
Over the past two days, I’ve had a sudden bump in interest in my coaching services that will keep me occupied for a few days of what would otherwise be writing time, but I’m surprisingly OK with that, and not …
In addition to the primary action of this story, which involves my hero’s flight from danger to safety, she is also going through the emotional journey of accepting her power. For the purpose of creating my scene outline, I am …
Outlining used to be my favorite part of the writing process. This is – was -when the story takes shape in my head and I get to enjoy where it goes. But this time, I’m deliberately doing things differently, and …
Today, I started trying to map specific events in my story to the 22 plot steps from Truby’s Anatomy of Story. I have multiple storylines going on in this book, but for now, I’m working on the hero’s core journey …
After finishing my primary characters yesterday, I’m starting my plot work today. But at the same time, I’m really struggling with how to do this. I think one of the reasons my last book didn’t work was because I tried …