I’m what you might call a NaNoWriMo veteran. A member since 2016, I’ve “won” seven out of the nine times I’ve participated and written over 440K words. This includes Camp NaNoWriMo, which takes place in April and July of every year. My debut novel, A Delicious Dilemma (Harlequin Special Edition), was drafted and revised during […]
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I’m going to forgo the prompt today but I am going to talk a little bit about an aspect of my writing process that has taken me some time to embrace. It has to do with discovery writing. Discovery writing is when you start writing your story and “discover” where it goes. People often refer
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Today’s Prompt: How do you create your characters? Do you make a profile of them? Do you know your character before you start writing the story? My writing process is a little wild. I usually start with a premise, prompt, trope or idea and almost simultaneously, my characters show up. They are fully formed people,
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Writing Projects Today’s question: Tell us about ideas you have floating around. World building snippets, or ideas for new stories. Just a few bullet points. I have so many ideas! I have notebooks full of ideas to write. In fact, that’s how I keep track of them – I keep a daily journal (almost) and
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Structure Today’s question comes from this tweet: Structure as offense and characterization as defense, or the other way around. Is this something you think about? Do you have other metaphors when you think about your stories and how they work? Being a person who is largely indifferent to teams sports (I prefer individual sports so
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Tropes I’m using today’s question to keep the streak going, courtesy of https://the-wip-project.tumblr.com What is your favorite trope to write and/or read? And is there a difference between reading and writing the trope? It’s ironic that today’s question is about writing tropes because it’s been on my mind a lot lately. Tropes are literary devices
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A Late Start For more about the #100daysofwriting challenge, check out https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/100daysofwriting to see all the posts for each day. Thanks to https://the-wip-project.tumblr.com for organizing this fascinating challenge! If you get stumped on what to write, check the https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/100daysofquestions for prompts to help you write. I’m starting seven days late on this project, according to
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