Writing adventures and book reviews – Aventures d'écriture et commentaires littéraires
I always start a new writing project by writing a rough backstory for each of the main characters.
With this project though, I went deeper and wrote way more detailed backstories.
This week’s word count goal: 32 500 words
Word count so far: 20 764 words
Something very funny happened with this story.
Turns out I wrote a good chunk of the middle of the book first.
Continuer la lecture de « Diary of a new writing project. Day 36: Backstories forever »I recently went back to an old fantasy novel draft (I’m trying hard to make it a stand-alone; very hard…) and, as I now do before working on a novel, try to sell it first.
I hit a problem: the many sub-genres of literary Fantasy.
The marketing of books created many, many sub-genres for genres fiction in general, and for literary Fantasy especially.
I recently went back to a old fantasy novel draft (I’m trying hard to make it a stand alone; very hard…) and, as I now do before working on a novel, try to sell it first.
I hit a problem: the many sub-genres of literary Fantasy.
Suddenly, I was not writing a Fantasy novel anymore. I was writing… what exactly?
I was at lost. Ends a bit of research on the topic.
Continuer la lecture de « Writing a novel: On Fantasy »Now, with a little help from the prologue, I can write an all-new first chapter, while setting the mood for the story.
This week word count goal: 32 500 words (bis!)
Word count so far: 19 529 words
Apparently, the current trend in the book industry is against the existence of prologues.
Why write a prologue when you can just start with chapter one?
In my very humble writer/reader/movie lover opinion, here’s why.
Marie Alice Writes & Reads 