Monthly Archive:: October 2020
Yesterday, I finally succeeded in not only returning to my writing for a second time in a day, but having a longer, better session the second time around. Of course, it helped that in the meantime, I didn’t have to …
I was listening to the Story Studio Podcast State of the Industry interview with Becca Syme last night on my way home from work and had a profound realization about my process. The point of the interview was that there …
Today, I nearly made it to the end of my first plot point scene. By focusing on the beats I’d written, as well as my hero’s desire in the scene, I was able to keep the scene on track and …
Despite going back to rewrite my scene yesterday because it had gotten off track, it threatened to do the same thing again today. Fortunately, I was able to use the beats as a focus point to return and prevent myself …
Yesterday, I wrote about how I was trying to shove too much into my first plot point scene. It had gotten derailed by an argument between two of the characters before getting to the point. While I wanted to show …
I think I’ve tried to stuff too much into my First Plot Point scene, between the hero learning of the threat against her, to a fight between her protectors – the guide and best friend. The latter threatened to derail …
So far, the scene beats I wrote during yesterday’s outline session have served me well, even though I’m just starting to crack them. I felt the need to start the scene with setting and a description of how time passed …
In the scene that I started today, my hero learns about the threat against her and has to make her first decision about how to respond. But at the same time, each of the main characters are together in this …
I’m trying to adopt the mentality that I am writing for myself in the first draft and to worry less about wording than about getting the story down on the page, but I still find my perfectionist tendencies interfering. I …
Yesterday, I wrote about taking a looser approach to my scene planning, focusing on the purpose of the scene and letting it develop from there. But today, I came across the concept of creating scene beats, and I think that …