Archive for February, 2007
Plotting scenes and plotting suspense …
Next step, I think, is a vague overall outline of my novel. I’ve decided I need some direction but with the freedom to let the characters wander a bit. Starting out with no plan will, I think, lead me nowhere.
I’ve made a list of possible scenes, without giving it yet an overall structure. I [...]
Getting a good blurb
The idea of writing “the blurb” of my novel to help me get an overall vision of it appeals to me: especially as I’m not sure how the story will end, and a blurb shouldn’t give away the ending!
And so, in a quiet moment, I wrote a blurb for my novel. But it was terrible. [...]
What is this novel about?
My husband asked me the other day if I’d started writing my novel yet. I answered yes, and incidentally, this is true – I’ve taken a couple of opportunities lately in waiting rooms or on the bus to write. Of course, the next question was: “What’s it about?” And it’s a good question.
I knew [...]
Will you finish that novel?
In the grand realm of procrastinating, my skills rate pretty highly. I have mastered excuse-making, calendar-filling and even (occasionally, and my husband might not believe this) cleaning the house as a way to avoid doing the writing I, in fact, really want to do.
Web surfing is another killer, and look what I found: a quiz [...]