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December 10, 2013

Have a Laugh…

It has been a busy busy couple of weeks… between husband being away a lot and being seriously ill upon his return home and son’s various activities which usually double during this time of the year, and that means a lot of coming and going, it has just been flat-out go-go-go around here… and of course, i do a lot of fundraising at this time too. (See here, here, here and here.) Plus i have been making a lot of flower hairclips too. (A wonderful friend ordered 12 pairs! Thank you!)

i do a lot of deep breathing to get by when i have a lot to do 😉

i have a lot of pages bookmarked. So i thought i revisit some funny pages i had bookmarked for some good o’ laughter. Actually, for a lot of laughter. After all, laughter is the best medicine!

ROFLOL… that’s what i did reading this article 😉 So i hope you like it a lot too!

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything.

Did you enjoy that article? It was a lot of fun, right? Did your grammar improve a lot?

Hahhaaa…

syc

November 24, 2013

Talking About Scenes…

A storyboard for an eight-minute animated cartoon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yes, every story is made up of scenes…

And that’s the progress i have made in my WIP (Work-In-Progress) – i have a scene list.

See this post for details: How a Scene List Can Change Your Novel-Writing Life.

i don’t have it quite the same as what is described there but i have date/time in novel-world, POV (Point-Of-View) and i have a short description of the scene. i must say the process took time but worth it. i now know where the story is going and i have managed to bridge a couple of gaps which were causing me much hair-pulling moments.

BUT… it has also shown up some potential problems, especially with my characters, so i’m now going back to the drawing board with my characters and getting to know them better by doing an interview with them. Something like this here.

By the way, has anyone reading this used the Snowflake method? i read about it in that scene list post but would like to hear personal testimony.

More progress to come this week? i hope so.

syc

November 4, 2013

Writing Frustration – That Is Where I Am At…

Yes i’m frustrated – i know where my story is going. i have wonderful characters who both like and hate each other. i have a plot. i have words on pages BUT… BUT…

i can NOT make the middle work! i need new scenes to tell the story BUT i don’t know how, what, who, where… sob! sob! sob!…

So i trawl the webpages i bookmarked, hoping for inspiration and came across, again, this wonderfully innovative way of getting through the frustration…

Writing Frustration and A Creative Way to Push Through | JeanNicole Rivers.

Now it is not going to give me new scenes but it certainly felt good to give the frustration a voice…

Hey, maybe that’s what one of my characters can do… hmmm… there may be light at the end of the tunnel yet 😉

syc