Wow, it seems like forever since I posted last. Oh, look it has been! No posts in July at all. Much too busy lately with school and work and family and laziness to write. I've also lost some of the fire I had before. This saddens me but I have NOT needed one more thing to stress about.
The good news though is that I have started writing again. I'm taking a story I wrote in high school, then rewrote 5 or so years ago and now rewriting it again. It never ceases to amaze me how much my writing has improved. As soon as I sat down, with this project in mind, and started reading the story, I couldn't believe how much 'telling' I did. I didn't 'show' very much at all. My dialogue was little and ....well, blah. Then I remembered that this copy was still quite improved over the original. EEK! Luckily, I believe my sister is the only one with an original and it isn't a soft copy she can circulate easily.
Still, in my quest to be published is still moving forward. Since I originally wrote this story in 3 parts, and now that I'm rewriting (page 1 is now pages 1-3), my plan is to release it in 3 parts. So if all goes well, you can look for "Mysterious Prince Part I" by Christmas as an ebook.
This is the Novel Mage saying, *POOF*
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Make a break for it
The semester is drawing to a close and I will get a one week break between semesters. I just need to plow through the next two weeks and I will be free to write, when I'm not working on the basement. I started chapter 7 and decided that I just needed to get stuff down on the page and not worry so much about whether I'm using "was" because it slowed me down. I'm a story-teller. Which is different from a story show-er. (Yes, I put a hyphen because otherwise it's 'story shower' and that is just silly). My kids like that I can tell stories, but readers like you to show them. So hopefully on my one week break, my goal is to pound out another chapter. That will put me close to half way done.
April is script-frenzy too. http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/ I had every intention of doing it this year but with finals and a basement nearing completion, I think I'll have to post-pone. But if you are an aspiring script writer, by all means join!
This is the Novel Mage saying *POOF*
April is script-frenzy too. http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/ I had every intention of doing it this year but with finals and a basement nearing completion, I think I'll have to post-pone. But if you are an aspiring script writer, by all means join!
This is the Novel Mage saying *POOF*
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