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CPGO: Step Four – Setting
At this point I’m diverging from BiaM and You Can Write a Novel. Both mention setting briefly. Smith goes as far to suggest treating settings like a character. Instead, I’m leaving these books at the wayside for now and concentrating … Continue reading
Percolation
Percolation. Terry Brooks uses the term in his book, Sometimes Magic Works. Ideas form like a pool from a drip, one tiny drop is only one of the puzzle pieces. My ideas percolate for years. I create a folder and … Continue reading
CPGO: Asides – Story Bible
World Building is the bane of my existence. I love it but it continually defies my need for organization. I’ve tried 3×5 cards, notebooks, loose leaf notebooks, software, and sketch books. I’ve come to terms with the need for a … Continue reading
CPGO: Step 3 – Characters
I start this step much as the last one, but this is not optional. I start entering characters into yWriter, starting with main and adding side characters next. The character file grows as the story grows, entering a new character … Continue reading
CPGO: Step 2 – Research List & Setup
I have my idea written down. Time for step 2. This is where the books start to diverge. However I think this is the perfect time to start a research list and gather things I might need. In ywriter, I … Continue reading
A Crazy Person’s Guide to Outlining: Step One-The Idea
Time to do another outline. I feel like I must be a schizophrenic outliner. I have a bunch of books on the subject, I tend to pick and choose through them, and I edit the outline as I go. When … Continue reading
Writing the Later to Help in the Now
I’m rewriting the first five chapters. These five chapters have been written for such a long time. They’ve been cut, moved and shuffled. Then, at some point, I just decided to write the rest of the damn novel. So did … Continue reading
Yes I meant to delete that chapter….
If you’ve been following my little progress meter down there (on the right), then you may have noticed that I just dropped the chapter count by one…. My axe is a bloody axe. I don’t need two damn chapters of … Continue reading
Divorcing Yourself From Your Character
Well now, this is tricky. You’ve had something horrible happen to you…or maybe something great. And you’ve decided to turn it into a story. You fictionalize it, add some magic, some name changes and bam, you have… Crap. You do, … Continue reading
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