Getting ready to release Threshold of Midnight!
Upon escaping a bomb shelter,
Diana discovers everyone has vanished, until she finds a small child who
delivers messages from the Virgin Mary, causing her to question the line
between belief and madness.
Would you trust a five-year-old
to lead you through an apocalypse?
For months, maybe years, you build a story. Create characters, plot, whole towns and backstories.
Then (after many rewrites & editing) you're done! Baby goes out into the world either indie or looking for an agent. Or lets face it, some just go in a drawer with hopes of one day making it out into the sunlight again.
So another book is done, edited, edited and then to the editor, then meeting with editor, then it's done, finalized. Time to either put it out as an Indie or maybe find an agent to go traditional.
And you breathe. You come out of the writer's cave and greet the real world. Walk the dog, visit the library, go to the gym, read all those books you've put off.
Then it's time to choose the next project.
It's still a great month to write a novel!
I signed up for ProWritingAid which is a site to track kind of like Nanowrimo but not quite as good. But hey! They're new and just tuning up their gears. People are asking for a way to connect with their friends and ProWritingAid says it's working on a safe way to do it.
Now is the time to figure out what to write. (Isn't this always the hard part?) Get an idea and flesh it out enough to create a full novel.
Ideas I have. I put them in the notes on my phone, there's little pieces of paper all over my desk with story ideas scribbled on them and I have a few novels finished but not edited. So all I have to do is pick one.
One way to start an idea is to think about the Hero's Journey. Character/Normal world/Challenge or problem. Insert some "what if's" and just write.
I was listening to the Bookfox on YouTube. He did an episode of how great writers write and talked about Ray Bradbury. Bradbury challenged himself to put down 5 words and through the week create a short story out of them. Start on Monday, send that story out on Saturday. Considering he wrote Fahrenheit 451 in 9 days this might be a great exercise for writers.
Happy November Novel Month! Let's write!
This was the first of her books that I've read.
I'd definitely give this book 5 stars since it held my attention, gave me shivers, and had me emotionally involved with Carly and Viv.
All loose ends were tied up with a big twist at the end. Loved it!
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How do you work out that writing muscle?
You write, of course!
But.... what? That's the question that hits every writer at one point or another. I have no ideas, I don't have a story idea, I got nothing!
So, here's the solution. Write badly.
Yep! Give yourself permission to write the dumbest, more ridiculous thing you can think of.
Aliens in the school lunch room?
Puppy found at the beach is actually a shifter?
There's a cult that meets in the woods behind your house?
Can a butterfly be a shifter?
You see your neighbor dump a body in the lake. When you get home, that neighbor is sitting with your wife in your kitchen. Together they confess...
A child comes up to you and tells you it's time to go back to your home planet and tries to convince you that you're an alien.
A brilliant blast comes from the sky, and suddenly you find yourself on another planet.
Okay, I guess I have aliens on my brain today, but you get the idea. Just write something goofy and don't worry if it's good or bad. Just write and the light will appear. It's an exercise to get those creative juices flowing.
Still hunting new agents who might be the perfect fit.
While hunting, I'm writing the sequel. Threshold of Tomorrow. Three chapters in, nine outlined.
Get up, walk the dog, and find a snack.... always need snacks!
Happy writing my fellow creatives!
