Tag: writing craft

Inspired | November 2019

Every month, I share the articles and sites that I found most interesting. Here’s what caught my attention in November.

Inspired | October 2019

Every month, I share the articles and sites that I found most interesting. Here’s what caught my attention in October.

Inspired | April 2019

Every month, I share the articles and sites that I found most interesting. Here’s what caught my attention in April.

Inspired | January 2019

Every month, I share the articles and sites that I found most interesting. Here’s what caught my attention in January.

Inspired | August 2018

Every month, I share the articles and sites that I found most interesting. Here’s what caught my attention in August.

Sketchbook #29

If January taught me anything, it’s that I need to have some kind of well-defined photography project if I’m going to keep shooting. And I need to make a public commitment to that project. Without those two things, I really struggle to stay on track with any of my photography goals.

In other words, it wasn’t a good month for me as a photographer.

NaNoWriMo 2017 Diary | Prep Week 4

I’ve written my synopsis!

I still don’t have a working title, and I keep wavering between whether my story counts as sci-fi or fantasy (I mean… everything in it is based on “science,” but none of it is remotely realistic, and in the end it comes down to “I dunno… maybe aliens? Magic?”), but I have a synopsis, and I really like it.

Last year was the first time I bothered writing a synopsis for NaNo. I’d just never seen the point before – I knew what my story was, I had a full outline, so a synopsis felt like another variation on the theme. And… yeah. It kind of is. But it’s still really helpful.

NaNoWriMo 2017 Diary | Prep Week 2

I got a little bit off-track this week.

I’ve been trying to expand my one-page outline, figuring out my scenes and subplots and character moments and, you know, all the things that turn an outline into an actual story. And, because I’m still tweaking my outlining method, I’ve been looking at what other people say about their processes, reading about outlining techniques, that sort of thing.

(Also: by Tuesday afternoon, I had to accept that I was coming down with a cold. Studying craft was a way to feel like I was being at least a little bit productive, even when I didn’t have the attention span to be working. On the bright side, I’d rather get a cold now than in the last week of November.)

It was probably a mistake.