This year I am writing a novel. You might have read my post titled “Establishing Context” where I was talking a bit about whether I should write a prologue or not. Well, I decided to play around with it a bit and this week I was hoping for some feedback on my rough idea of… Continue reading Peeking from the shadows
This year I am writing a novel. Is this a strange time in the process to consider a prologue? I am over half way through writing The Nameless Files and here I am thinking about pausing in chapter writing to draft up a prologue. We all know that a prologue is used as an opening… Continue reading Establishing Context
This year I am writing a novel. There are a couple things that I have considered in some way or another over the last few months. The first thing is that chapter one has been the hardest chapter to write to date. I know as I write this post today that I am not happy… Continue reading A reflection post
This year I am writing a novel and today’s post is a backstory related to one of my characters (unedited). Historical but unauthenticated Cra lived high in the mountains, but unlike the rest of her tribe she found the steep, sloping sides with a mixture of sharp and rounded ridges to be a dull and… Continue reading Backstory: Historical but unauthenticated
This year I am writing a novel. I am starting this post with a question for me and for you. Is there a symbolic image that of you write? My symbolic image is a coffee cup filled with strong black coffee. A white misty vapor is rising from the mug and breaking around a slightly… Continue reading Theatre behind the Eyes
This year I am writing a novel. Way back in the end months of 2020 when I first started really considering this project I was very eager and full of wild expectations. The building blocks for 2021’s writing project where created and put into place. So, I set out writing what I felt certain would… Continue reading The Writing Morphs
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” – Henry David Thoreau This year I am writing a novel. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” ― Carl Sandburg This writing journey forward has been anything but linear. This is my first attempt at writing a fictional novel and I am truly enjoying… Continue reading As Characters Whisper their Secrets
This year I am writing a novel. The boys often ask me to draw with them. Drawing was something I loved to do but it isn’t something I made a lot of time for over the years. Lately when they have asked me to sit and draw with them I have used it to my… Continue reading What came first, the chicken or the egg?
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean This year I am writing a novel. I set out all those months ago with the idea that I wanted to end with 90 – 120 thousand words. I estimated at 3150 to… Continue reading Assessing the goal
Titles – Do they belong at the beginning of each chapter? This year I am writing a novel. I have not been naming my chapters as I write them beyond the chapter number. Whether to name them or not has been a question that pops into my head each time I start writing the next… Continue reading Entitle
Brewing Coffee, Twisting Words & Breaking Pencils 