Tuesday, Chatterboxers! The day where we say...Tuesday!
Today's TO DO list has 45 items. Will they get done? Or will they languish miserably? Stay tuned to find out!
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Tuesday, Mastodonians! The day where we say...Tuesday!
Today's TO DO list has 45 items. Will they get done? Or will they languish miserably? Stay tuned to find out!
(This message brought to you by my desire to make my life sound more exciting than it is)
It felt SO GOOD to get my old project cleared off, and start with a clean slate on this plotting board. I'm trying out Katytastic's 9 Block/27 Ch structure for my next story!
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It's been a good day for ideas.
If you're a writer, I'd expect one of the questions you're most often asked, from friends, family, or pretty much anyone you talk about your writing with, is "where do you get your ideas from?"
If you're anything like me, ideas are the easy part. I've been logging them for 20+ years. Most are not good enough to stand on their own, but could be combined to make a good story. Some can carry a story on their own. A few are strong enough to be the basis for an entire series.
When I finish my second fantasy trilogy, in about a month's time, I'll be returning to the protag from my first novel and taking him out for some new SF thriller adventures. I already have five stories worked up for him and his daughter. I've also outlined around a dozen horror tales, probably novella length. So at the speed I write, I have enough ideas to keep me going until I'm around 90.
What better day, then, to have 2 more great ideas for the SF guy pop into my head, each easily as good as any of the 5 I had planned. Looks like I'll now be writing 'til I'm 95 🙄
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I'm timelining the final book of my second trilogy #today and I needed to know how fast the dragons will fly to make sure everyone ends up in the right place at the right time.
Well! There's almost as many answers to that as there are stories with dragons in them, but the search result that really blew my mind was this one. Hats off to Anthony, whoever he is - this level of nerdiness is really impressive.
https://sites.google.com/site/anthonysgurps/the-physics-of-dragon-flight
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Story Skeleton—The Alchemist
Coelho's narrative aligns seamlessly with the hero's journey plot points.
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Plot: an event or series of events in which the internal is transformed by the external.
So my second script has become known as Project Alice since she's the main character lol. It's a 2 parter surpisingly and set in both the Superstions and Appilations. Should be fun lol. The challenge I'm still having is just staying with the projects. It's scary to think about drawing a book these days. Idk why lol. I could use some #AccountabilityPartners #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmPlotting
Doing some preptober plotting for the newish story. I've decided to write this one For NaNoWriMo this year and working title is Muse. Not spilling the final title yet! It will be a cosmic horror or horror story. I've noticed a pattern in my planning of my more recent stories where I hit the Inciting incident straight off and then exposition followed by a 2nd inciting incident. Maybe I'm developing my story structure slowly? #preptober2023 #AmPlotting #AmWriting
RT @SeptimusBrown: Story Skeleton—Animal Farm
"Napoleon drives the story from beginning to end."
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@neve
Q2. Quirkiest hobby?
Trying to figure out how to murder her traveling companion, I think.
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@neve
Q1. Giving a character a fun hobby or a side interest gives them:
- something to think/worry about in slow moments
- something to compare stuff to
"this is just like programming a convention, except ..."
"trying to figure this out is just like laying out Drunkard's Path for a quilt block ..."
- an excuse for having some weird equipment for another plot purpose
- something you can describe them doing!
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"For a novel that features one of the few strong female protagonists in Victorian literature, it’s ironic that the author, Charlotte Brontë, had to publish it under a male pseudonym."
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Just drove back from dropping off son. About an hour and a half of trying to figure out a plot. It's nice to feel my mind working in writing mode again. #AmWriting #AmWritingFiction #AmPlotting
It is done: #Alchemie2 ist ge-replottet, ich kann einen großen Teil des bereits Geschriebenen weiter benutzen und der passende Aufhänger wurde gefunden.
Herzdame wollte den Plot hören, stoppte mich dann aber, weil sie nicht gespoilert werden will. Ich werte das als gutes Zeichen.
Plot: an event or series of events in which the internal is transformed by the external.
Doing some plotting while the rain hammers down outside. My 2022 NaNoWriMo ended up as a stew of 'random unrelated events as I thought of them'. Time to give it some structure! Writing people is so much harder than llamas..
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A plotting day #today, and on to Book #6, the final book of the second trilogy. I like to intersperse drafting with a bit of plotting to keep things fresh.
All those copious notes I made while staring out at the beautiful Norwegian coast during our sailing expedition in January are now coming home to roost, meaning I was able to complete all of Step 4 (main story arc), and the first four (of 14) Step 5s (character arcs) today. Another good day. I can't call it a habit yet, but I haven't made this much progress, this early in either a draft or a plot, for a long, long time.
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After threatening yesterday to start work on the plot for book #6 (in lieu of drafting #5), this morning I uncovered a reason to make a change to book #4, which thankfully is still sat on the starting blocks waiting on my cartographer to deliver the new maps.
Phew. A moment of complete serendipity (followed by one of strange serenity).
At this point I'd normally claim "procrastination FTW!!" but it was externally enforced procrastination, so it doesn't really count. Still, I'll take it.
I've also rediscovered all those plot notes I made while staring out at the Norwegian coastline from the library aboard MS Maud. Some really good stuff. The serenity there must've agreed with me too. Maybe that's the watchword for today?
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Writing Tip Wednesday: Whether plotting or pantsing, having a good sense of your genre's conventions before you start writing is the best way to ensure you can create the right moments for your story with surprises while meeting reader expectations.
