Monthly Archive:: November 2020
So, I don’t have nearly as tight an outline for my non-fiction work in progress as I do for fiction. Essentially, I have section titles and quotes from my research pasted into the document, and today, after missing two consecutive …
I’ve been starting my research into comp titles to try to figure out what kinds of covers work for my genre. The problem is that I found a genre on Goodreads that seems to be a perfect fit – Heroic …
It wasn’t Thanksgiving proper, but since that isn’t a holiday in Japan, we did it over the weekend. I spent all day and my creative energy in the kitchen, not on writing, and it was oh-so-worth it!
One of the steps that I freely admit that I got wrong in my initial attempt at this story was the mock book cover. This is part of the How to Write a Bestseller Course process of creating a book …
Today, in my non-fiction book, I started to tackle the first “How-To” section. I am introducing a few websites that readers can use to assist their search for universities for their scholarship application, so I’m going site-by-site, describing their pros …
This morning, I re-watched a couple sessions from the How to Write a Bestseller Course about book packaging and spent the rest of my time thinking about the title of my series and novel. I liked both the series title …
Today’s writing started with a quick chapter introduction, but then I got into details: Pros and cons of a specific approach. So far, I am not incorporating my research and notes too much, although in my next writing session, I’ll …
After working out my series premise and the the premise line for book 1, I analyzed it following the methodology in John Truby’s Anatomy of Story. I looked for what the audience expectations would be, what the potential challenges of …
Today, I put the finishing touches on the first draft of Chapter One of my non-fiction book. Although I haven’t been numbering the days on this particular project, maybe I should go back and do that. I’m curious about how …
Now that I have my overall series premise, as well as an idea of how the primary conflict will be resolved, I can plan the individual books based on the steps and progress that my hero needs to take to …