I finished the 10% edit, going from 205,000 words to 185,000, this morning and emailed the finished manuscript to Super Agent Caitlin who will perform various incantations before sending it off to ye Editors for review. While that’s happening, I will be switching gears and starting the thriller. I’m looking forward to this. Not only am I
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Even after you choose a genre, you still need to develop ideas for character, setting, problem, plot, and text. What do you do? How do you develop those ideas? The first thing you do is hunt zing. Feeding the beast Zing is any idea that turns you on, sparks your imagination, or stokes your desire.
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Dixon Leavitt is an amazing artist. He recently emailed me saying: “Sometimes I just start sketching with no plan in mind. This just popped out. Thought you’d like to see it.” It’s Hunger from Servant of a Dark God. Duuuuuuuuuuuude! Dixon explains the step by step of the creation of this painting at dixondoodles.blogspot.com. You’ll want to
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Okay, I lied. I was going to get into idea generation techniques, but decided to do one more short post on development objectives. Actually, I suppose this is a technique. In the last post, I said one of the main objectives of your initial story development is to have the story to come to life
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I’m at the 51% mark with my trim and have cut 10,000 words. Right on target. And I haven’t cut any story, just flab in the writing. Usually when I revise, I add words. I thought I wrote lean, but that’s clearly not the case. Strangely enough, I have to say that I’ve enjoyed every
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