It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been working on some stuff, and dealing with the kind of roll-with-the-punches situations that life seems to be throwing at me lately. I’m still playing with brain.fm. I don’t find it quite as effective, but it’s pretty close. I think letting the kid use it...
For a while, back when I started writing, I hit 3.5K words a day, which is pretty good for a noob. Then life happened, I stopped writing for a while, and my brain went to mush. For the past year, 500 words was the best I could manage in a day, even if I...
Two passes down, one more to go. I’ve fixed a lot of weird spelling issues that I think have something to do with my keyboard getting ready to die. (I can’t say all of it was the keyboard–at one point I found an entire sentence that had lived on from an earlier draft, and...
The Dirty Birds are back with a new book! K.M.Weiland and her advice in Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success. Zoe: So this will be an interesting book given the range of pantsing/plotting we have among us birds. Ana: Yes, I think I’ll take the role of the skeptic. Kate: I’ve already...
We’re over at Zoe’s blog for the last part of our discussion of James Scott Bell’s Revision and Self-Editing for Publication. Tune in next week to see how I handle working through a book on outlining.
The Three Dirty Birds are chatting about James Scott Bell’s Revision and self-Editing for Publication. We’re down to the end of it now, with just his Revision Checklist to go through. (And, by the way, he has a downloadable version of this checklist at Writer’s Digest, if you want to check it out.) Kate:...
We’re over at Ana’s blog, talking about what we do after we’ve finished our first draft, and what James Scott Bell recommends.
Kev pulled into the parking lot and held his breath as he hunted a decent parking spot. The best ones were right at the end of the building where the back doors were, or on the edge, in the shade of the trees that dotted the campus. Score! He tucked his seven-year-old Mazda into...
Three Dirty Birds are chirping about what you should do before you revise your book, and what James Scott Bell thinks you should do. Zoe: First I want to say that I did some of the exercises in the Theme chapter last Sunday, and ohmygod. What a help! It led to me rewriting the...
Over at Zoe’s blog, talking about James Scott Bell’s Introductory chapter to the second half of the book, on revision.