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B. Jeanne Boyko
Stories of Significance
27
May
So, What’s Your Book About?
Published in Writing DiaryRecovering from a week away for a family wedding, I pulled out Lesson Four again and spent some time writing a new “one sentence summary” of my first Nanonovel, Gift of the Ancients. I had a one sentence summary for the story before I wrote it, but Holly Lisle’s way of going about it is different than Randy Ingermanson’s (I used […]
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18
May
Progressing again, and a tangent
Published in Writing DiaryToday I finished Lesson Three, which just took more brain power than was available for me to finish it quickly. I’ve read through Lesson Four and I’m excited to get to work on it as well. Besides the How To Revise Your Novel course, to aid my writing I am also doing, with my homeschooling son, Shurley English […]
7
May
So close!
Published in Writing DiaryAlmost made it to the end of Lesson Three, but life intruded. Will finish up tomorrow and begin Lesson Four on Monday.
5
May
Every step matters.
Published in Writing DiaryScene cards went well today, I think I’m getting the hang of it. The ‘sequels’ (see Techniques of the Selling Writer) are a little harder to handle, but I’m getting some kind of a grip on them. It’s encouraging to see the work still progressing even as I have low personal resources this week. Every step matters, even the small […]
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4
May
Begin Lesson Three
Published in Writing DiaryAlmost a quarter of the way through Lesson Three, assigning each scene (defined as when something significant changes) a sentence describing all the essential elements of the scene, or noting missing elements. I have a hard time going from big-picture to small-picture in terms of how significant things are. The first quarter introduces so many things, and while […]
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