Category: process
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NaNoWriMo Progress Sheet
NaNoWriMo begins the day after tomorrow. To control my progress, I’ve created a spreadsheet that dynamically recomputes, each day, how many words I need to […]
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A Sneak Peek at the Ardor Point #2 Outline
I’ve been working on-and-off on this outline for over a year and a half now. I could go down the list of excuses and reasons […]
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Writing Tip: Research the Obvious
Let’s say you’re writing a scene in your story, a scene that takes place in a beauty salon. Now, if you yourself have spent 20 […]
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Yay! Juvie Fantasies and Major Online Writing Course
As of May 1st, prices are going up on Holly Lisle’s online career-survival course for novelists. Update: I’m just going through the first couple of […]
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So, How Do YOU Research?
In a famous display of writer’s integrity, guts, and stupidity, Harlan Ellison joined a street gang to research his first novel. Yikes. Talk about writing […]
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The 5 Principles of Story Design: How Storytelling Is Like Mapmaking
Some time ago, I ran across a post on the Society of Cartographer’s email list— What I was doing there, I don’t remember. I’m not […]
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Starting a Novel without a Title (but with a Cover)
I usually start a novel with at least a working title. Not this time. However, I am starting with a working cover design. This is […]
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Agile Storytelling
I generally write a story using a process similar to Randy Ingermanson’s “Snowflake†method, but I don’t think of my process as resembling anything like […]
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