This is just a very short note to say that although I am making progress on my new novel, using the Karen Wiesner method, progress has been slow. I’ve now got most of the forms filled in, the initial planning stages, and have started writing some scenes. This is the part I enjoy, so I’ve […]
This is the second time I’ve written this post! It looks like I must have forgotten to save the first one, and since I wrote it directly into the Wordpress editor… I basically wasted half an hour of my life, which I really don’t like doing! Obvious lesson to learn there!
So after writing my first […]
Having ‘finished’ my first novel using the NaNoWriMo method described in No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days I then had problems when I came to the editing stage (using the NaNoEdMo - National Novel Editing Month process)
For this reason I decided to try using an alternate […]
Okay, I missed posting last week!
But since it’s the day before the end, and by this week-end just gone (26/27 April) I’d got to 95 pages… well that’s what Celtx Print Preview said anyway… I was going to leave it until I finished… but that leaves the question of finished the month or finished the […]
I’m now two weeks into the ScriptFrenzy script writing exercise, and up to page 57 of a 100 page target… of my zombie screenplay. I’m finding the writing OK, but have been putting off (’forgetting’) mapping the plot out properly, so I still don’t know how it’s going to end!
I have been using the free […]
So I’m on my seventh day into the ScriptFrenzy script writing exercise, and so far I’m up to page 30 of a 100 page target… but I did start from a previous idea, which I’d already written a few pages for, so it’s kind of an ‘adaptation’ of my own idea.
I’m using the free Celtx […]
My editing didn’t gscripto great - I kept getting bogged down and confused, so I only just met the 50 hour target, and only got halfway through the editing process (I’m being optimistic there as well!)… I’m going to leave it alone for a while now, then come back to it hopefully fresh and more […]
Okay, here I am with two days to go until the end of National Novel Editing Month (NaNoEdMo) and I’ve still got 6.5 hours to go! I’ve done nothing on several days during the last week due to feeling a bit under the weather, and then last night I came down with a cold!
So it’s […]
This editing isn’t as much fun as the rough draft writing was! It’s been going slowly…
I started off with the idea of putting post-its on a wall and moving them around, but they kept falling off! So then I copied all that info into a spread sheet instead and shuffled the scenes that way, to […]
I finished the first pass of editing - rereading the rough draft, making notes on scenes etc. (numbered post-its) and some proof reading highlighting. I also made some notes about new scenes to put in, which will add another thread to the storyline.
The next step is to reorganise the scenes to improve flow, clarity, readability […]
