Recently, I found myself wide awake in the middle of the night. I needed to do some research for a current work in progress, so I went to Google. After some clicking here and there, I found myself on Youtube watching a documentary on the English language. I found it fascinating, but I couldn’t help… Continue reading Embracing Strange
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Pondering A Story: Creativity
What feeds your creativity? Or, rather, what do you do to get into a creative frame of mind? Welcome to the blog and today’s post, where, once again I slip into avoiding talking about my manuscript. LOLI have been talking these last few weeks about how to begin a story. If you have been with… Continue reading Pondering A Story: Creativity
Pondering a Story: Recess
In my neck of the woods, it’s spring break. Friends on FB are posting pictures of their vacation, the town is noisier because of the kids who are out of school, and little learning is taking place. As for me and mine, the youngest is beginning to recover from the flu, the man of the… Continue reading Pondering a Story: Recess
Pondering A Story Part 4
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to my blog. For the last few weeks, I have been attempting to begin a story using Randy Ingermanson’s Ten Steps of Design found on his website http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com.This is week 4. Thus, I have put together step 4, which is taking the summary paragraph that I wrote last week and writing a paragraph… Continue reading Pondering A Story Part 4
Pondering A Story Part 3
If you have been following this blog, you’ll remember I’ve been pondering a story using The Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson. In Pondering A Story I attempted step 1. In Pondering A Story Part 2 I attempted step 2. Today’s post may be shorter, but I’m going to attempt step 3.Step 3 is where we work on discovering who… Continue reading Pondering A Story Part 3
Pondering A Story Part 2
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the blog. Last week I talked about using the Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson to begin a story. If you missed last week’s post, you can go read it here. This week, I would like to take that one step further.First, I wrote a summary sentence. To recap from last week, here… Continue reading Pondering A Story Part 2
Pondering A Story
Thirty minutes before I herd the children off to bed, and I just realized I haven’t written a blog post. So, it’s off the cuff tonight. I can’t promise I’ll stay on topic. In fact, here at the beginning, there is no clear topic. I’ll come up with one before its over, though, so stick… Continue reading Pondering A Story
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