This week, the challenge I'm facing is writing short chapters. The last two books I've written have chapters anywhere from 5,000-8,000 words, sometimes longer. My current book is a different series, a different genre and a different length. To make my word count work, I need to have 3,000-3,500 word chapters. Not exactly, but pretty …
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The most important part of a story is the characters, and crafting good characters is an important skill to develop as a writer. Characters are more important than plot. If you immediately disagree, I can tell you this right here is your problem. A character is supposed to drive the story, not the plot. The …
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I've had another week of writing another outline, but this one made me feel recharged. For whatever reason, this book is coming slow (by my standards). Possibly because writing a fourteen year old characters requires tapping into my fourteen year old self, and that's really not a time I have any desire to relive... The …
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This week has been another hard week of writing. I sat down to write every day, but the story did not flow. I had trouble writing very much at all on the page. I was excited about the story but not about what I was doing with it. It felt like I was trying to …
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For some reason, I am always tempted to tell myself I'm doing things wrong. When things are hard or don't flow well, my first answer is "what can I be doing better right now? This can't be right." But actually, it can be. The impulse to blame is strong inside of me, but some things …
This week was an entire week of my new book I'm writing. Needless to say, I was outlining. I'm really excited about this project. It's one I started a few years ago and have a very solid first chapter of. I know where the series goes. I know who the main character is. But this …
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Today, my book comes out. Hooray! It's a good day when I put my work into the world for other people to read. It's book two of a series about dragon adventures, and it's a fun story to write. But now that it's done, it means it's time to pick what I write next. I …
It is almost time for my book to be released, and I am ecstatic. And also very caffeinated. And also so ready for it to just be done with already, but also dreading when I can't make any more last minute changes. Because I still am making a lot of them. My original goal was …
I'm having one of those weeks that feels like I can't win the way I want to win. My wins are still wins, but not in the way I envisioned or wanted, so it's tempting to call them losses and write the whole week off... but that would be dishonest to myself and my situation, …
This week was week one of editing, and it did not go as smoothly as I had hoped. It started off fine. I did a general edit of chapters 1-8, which means I read through it, fixed and spelling/grammar errors that I noticed, fixed any flow issues I noticed and made a version that I …
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