This method allows me to create my own outline without missing feeling like I forgot anything story-beat-wise important.
My writing process is slowly evolving to something new. Something I like.
In the rough outline, I asked myself the basic questions about the characters, I researched, I went back to my old Pinterest board to remind myself what caught my attention in the past year or so.
With the new story in mind, for a week or so, I then brainstormed.
Continuer la lecture de « Writer Notebook: Working outline »Two years have past and I was not successful in getting a book deal yet.
It’s perfectly normal.
Discouraging. Yes.
But normal.
Continuer la lecture de « A Writing Quest Update! »When it comes to home decorating, or in this case, writing nook decorating, imagination and creativity quite escapes me. Or I decorated with almost the exact same things I saw on the pictures I like
Or
I abandoned the project, make small not useful changes and keep on working.
The knee went first.
Then the back.
When I started to have pains in my arms, I very unwillingly decided to tackle the problem : my working space.
The chair, the desk, the barely existant and non-functional storage needed a good clean-up and a good organizing session.
Therefore, I did what everybody does in that kind of situation: I started working on the couch.
Of course, that didn’t last and before long, I was searching the infinite realm of beautiful possibilities that is Pinterest.
I will not share any before-after pictures or anything like that.
Fair warning.
This is a writer’s blog after all!
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