So, this blog fell away, because I wanted to blog my writing in NaNoWriMo last year, but then it also ate up my writing brain to try to do it and made for incredibly dull reading to boot. I'm going to do thins a little differently this time around. SO last time I got 32k words in before I failed. That was largely due to that I was in Germany, and November was going to be my last whole month there. I tried like hell to get through it, and even had someone helping keep me motivated amazingly well. I tried even to book a train trip to be trapped with nothing to do but write. None of it ultimately got me to 50k words.
This year, I've been sitting and working on the same story. I feel that it has gotten a lot stronger, and I've been writing. My goal is to have a draft of about 100k words done by xmas that I can then go and edit heavily and then use that to find an agent or publisher. When January starts, I'll be back in grad school, so it's do or die on this NaNoWriMo.
I should've had this book done already, but...well if you're curious to why I didn't get it done, you can go check out my other and much more popular blog: seeingmomout.blogspot.com . I would suggest that you start at the bottom, if you do decide to give it a look.
So now, one of the things I'm going to do in this blog is to regurgitate writing tips, which mostly derive from the excellent podcast: Writing Excuses. It'll largely be just for me to remind myself of things, but hey, if you get something out of it, then that's great too.
So, the very first thing I'm going to post this year is this little PDF image file I made that contains a lot of details on writing formulae. I assembled this data from a great many episodes of Writing Excuses. These are all useful, and in many cases (3 disaster, 3 act, hollywood formula, and 7 pt story structure) can all just be different ways of looking at the same thing.
So I present to you here, a big page of writing formulae:
This year, I've been sitting and working on the same story. I feel that it has gotten a lot stronger, and I've been writing. My goal is to have a draft of about 100k words done by xmas that I can then go and edit heavily and then use that to find an agent or publisher. When January starts, I'll be back in grad school, so it's do or die on this NaNoWriMo.
I should've had this book done already, but...well if you're curious to why I didn't get it done, you can go check out my other and much more popular blog: seeingmomout.blogspot.com . I would suggest that you start at the bottom, if you do decide to give it a look.
So now, one of the things I'm going to do in this blog is to regurgitate writing tips, which mostly derive from the excellent podcast: Writing Excuses. It'll largely be just for me to remind myself of things, but hey, if you get something out of it, then that's great too.
So, the very first thing I'm going to post this year is this little PDF image file I made that contains a lot of details on writing formulae. I assembled this data from a great many episodes of Writing Excuses. These are all useful, and in many cases (3 disaster, 3 act, hollywood formula, and 7 pt story structure) can all just be different ways of looking at the same thing.
So I present to you here, a big page of writing formulae:
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