Diary of a writing project. Day 136: how to salvage a ruined writing day

My head is pounding.

My throat hurts from screaming and swallowing back more screams.

Farewell, ruined writing day. See you never again…

Now what?!

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Writer Notebook: First brainstorm

My brainstorm basics are simple

There’s the Snowflake method.

The 3 acts structure method.

The « I don’t give a rat’s ass about writing methods, I’m a real writer, I write with my soul, and I just wanna write my mind-blowing novel and have the world bow before me, got it? » method.

Every writer’s approach to writing a novel is slightly different.

For sure.

But every writer, from the all-mighty tortured ones to the humble aspiring ones (like yours truly), have one thing in common.

Yep, that’s right.

Every writer have to write. the. novel.

From the idea to the book on the shelves, it’s an adventure!

In this series, I go through my process to develop an idea for a novel, hoping it can help other writers.

First: Let’s brainstorm!

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