hero Archive
Today, I continued my scene with my hero and best friend getting to know one another. They finally exchanged names, which will make my writing job easier from here on out! I also steered them from their conversation into the …
So, last time, I wrote that I had resisted the temptation to write the action scene showing my hero and best friend’s escape. I’m trying to cover it now, in summary, at the start of the next scene, with just …
I finally closed out that scene that had been giving me fits. My hero has now met the best friend character (though they have yet to be formally introduced) and lost her guide, at least for the moment. The guide …
I finally feel like the meeting scene is going in the right direction. This is my third attempt at it, after first making a mess that took hours to untangle, then tossing all of that work anyway. Now, though, I …
As much of a struggle as it was last time to clean up the half-rewritten scene I’d left myself, upon further reflection, I realized that it all had to go. I had let it get away from me and my …
On my last B1P day, I left a messy knot to untangle. I had started to write a scene, but then changed the order of my hero moving and observing her surroundings – which moved the observation to another observation …
After several days away, I had to carefully read my way back into the scene. Today, I managed to do so without changing much. Not because I didn’t find anything that I wanted to change, but because I found too …
In my current scene, my hero has made it to the site of the Inciting Incident, an event that destroyed her home, and has so far been reacting in shock as I describe the extent of the destruction. Now, the …
At the end of my last writing session, I left my hero almost at the end of the scene following the Inciting Incident. She was about to discover the extent of the destruction to everything she has known in her …
In today’s scene, my hero and guide character are navigating the literal fallout of the inciting incident as they pick their way through the devastation of the explosion. Actually, while I thought this was going to be an action scene, …