Write Your Novel In A Year – Week 6: Overcoming Your Fear of the Middle

Write Your Novel In A Year – Week 6: Overcoming Your Fear of the Middle thewordriven: Write Your Novel In A Year – Week 6: Overcoming Your Fear of the Middle Welcome to week 6 of Anthony Ehlers’s series that aims to help you write a novel in a year. Read last week’s post here. Goal setting Expand the middle of your synopsis Identify and develop your subplots ‘Design’ the interiors of your settings Breaking it down When the curtainmehr …

Story Idea Coffee

writingwithcolor

writingwithcolor: Writing with Color: Description Guide – Words for Skin Tone We discussed the issues describing People of Color by means of food in Part I of this guide, which brought rise to even more questions, mostly along the lines of “So, if food’s not an option, what can I use?” Well, I was just getting to that! This final portion focuses on describing skin tone, with photo and passage examples provided throughout. I hope to cover everything from themehr …

Writing About Pain Part 2: External Signs

scriptmedic: Hey there! This is a part of a series on pain and suffering in writing. Part 1 of the series, Writing About Pain (Without Putting Your Readers in Agony), appeared on the eminent and excellent blog WritersHelpingWriters. Thanks again to Angela for having me on her blog! I got a great follow-up question the other day from a-nom-de-plume, who asked: Hi! Do you have any tips on writing pain from an outside perspective? As in, not the point ofmehr …

The Five Elements of a Good Novel Pitch

incandescent-creativity: If you guys haven’t heard about the Book Doctors, then what have you been doing with your writing life allow me to educate you.David Henry Sterry and Arielle Ekstut are a husband and wife couple who work closely with NaNoWriMo and are the authors of a fantastic book titled “The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published.” (get it and read it, it’s fabulous) These two wonderful people just did a YouTube livestream (it’s two hours long, watch it here)mehr …

What are some good tips for getting started with writing a book? I have a concept but i can’t put it into place.

plotlinehotline: Getting Started with Your Story There’s no one way to start writing a book. For some people, it’s enough to just jump in and start writing to see where the story takes them. If you’re not too keen on that idea, then here is one process (as in, not the only process) that might help you move beyond your concept.  Concept ≠ Plot Many writers mistake concept for plot, but they’re actually two very different things. A world wheremehr …

Stephen King

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. Stephen King (via writerniche)

Creating plots with the zigzag method

1000storyideas: I’ve learned this method years ago and I’ve been using it ever since. The zigzag plot creator starts like this:  An crescent zigzag.  You can have as many up and downs as you want. I’ve drawn six to keep it simple. Alright, this zigzag is your storyline and every corner is an important event that will change everything: Every down represents a bad thing happening to your main characters, taking them further away from their goal. Every up ismehr …