Hey there! What do you do after you write your first draft? After you’ve slaved over your words for hours on end? After you have put your heart and soul (maybe) into a story? What do you do then?
How is my Blog Performing in August?
Hey there! This is the last day of August. To celebrate getting this far on my blog, I have decided to start a Monthly Overview. Every month, I’ll tell you what’s going on with the blog behind the scenes, and how it’s doing. You’ll get a peek at how my blog is actually doing. (Also, I didn’t post on Monday because this is the post for the week!) First, let’s take a look at the blog, and then at my books.
Why Writing in Spurts is Important
Hey there! Have you ever heard – or thought – about writing in spurts? (Well, you’ve obviously heard about it just now, so yes, you have.) Do you write in between your work? 3 minutes here, 10 minutes there…? Or do you sit down at your computer, and write for 1 hour straight? Which one of these is the best way to go about writing?
7 Ways to Start a Story
Hey there! Writing the beginning of a book can be easy for some people. For others, not so much. Personally, I’ve always struggled to come up with a good hook up line. It’s awful when you come back to something you wrote – and thought was good – and when you re-read it, you can see how much you need to change it. But what do you change it to, if you’ve already spent forever on figuring it out? Before I talk about how my own book is going, let’s take a look at some good ways to write a beginning.
An In-Depth Outline (And how Your writing will be Funner from now on!)
Hey there! Remember that rough outline that we did two days ago? Today we’re pulling that back out to work on!
Character Creation
Hey there! When I made my rough outline of my story, the way I showed you yesterday, I didn’t include names. All I thought about was the story. When I talked about my main character, I just capitalized ‘She’ and ‘Her’, so I’d know. But you do need to know who your story is about. So here are 6 questions that are necessary for your character creation.
Idea Dump
Hey there!
Thanks for coming back today to check out my blog; really appreciate it.
I am going to be going through each step I take to write a book here; even though I’ll be doing it at a faster pace, I’ll post once a day. (For the planning part, at least; that will go quicker than writing.) I invite you to try out this with me and tell me how your story is going in the comments every time you do a step.
Welcome to my Blog!
Hey there!
Welcome to my blog! It will be about my journey as a writer. I will post as I work on my book: my planning, my first draft, editing, and hopefully publishing (eventually).