Four scenes or a chapter？
It’s a little hard to do a word count this week as I finished one chapter and then the next one but I think it comes to around 6000 words.
Category: Writing
Hey everyone,
I had thought about writing an article about the new Starwars movie (which I finally saw yesterday) as an exercise in storytelling but that would take a whole post and I want to stay focused on writing. I will talk about the novel I read last week (I can call reading novels research now, Huzzah) though.
Dear reader,
Happy New Year and welcome to 2018. I’ll be doing things a little differently for the next couple of months.
A friend of mine had their birthday this week so I sent her a “Happy Birthday!!!” message. Their reply was “one year wiser.” My first thought on hearing this was “are you really?” In her case I would say yes, but it isn’t always the case especially in writing. More is not always better.
Yesterday I started a treatment for my feet again. Since I already had a pain in my left foot from something else and now I’m getting this new treatment for my left foot, which is also painful, walking around is, in fact, a pain.
Yesterday my wife and I went to watch the new version of Agatha Christie’s classic “Murder on the Orient Express.” On the whole it was well done and enjoyable but there were a few things that annoyed me about it. Stay clear if you don’t want spoilers.
One of the hardest parts of writing is giving your character the skills he or she needs for the story to progress without making it so overpowered that the story is not interesting anymore.
This last weekend has been quite hectic. We worked a three-day vegan festival here in Shanghai. I spent most of two days on my feet serving crepes but it gave me time to ponder character crafting.
One of the hardest parts of world building, when writing a novel, is figuring out the culture of your novel’s society.
I think what keeps most new writers from starting to write is the fear of writing the same thing that other writers have already written.