Stories of Significance
7
Jun
In the midst of preparing my daughter to go to Africa this summer I haven’t kept updating as much as I should, but I have been making baby steps of progress. Lesson 4 is done, Lesson 5 well into. This one is bringing each scene down to a “VS” statement, ie Main Character’s Mandate VS Her fear of Heights. This […]
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31
May
27
May
Recovering 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
Today 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
Almost made it to the end of Lesson Three, but life intruded. Will finish up tomorrow and begin Lesson Four on Monday.
5
May
Scene 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
Almost 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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29
Apr
All caught up with my pages, looking forward to completing this lesson tomorrow!
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28
Apr
Doing well on the Lesson 2 worksheets despite the slow start yesterday. I’m catching on to the concept of looking for characters and items that are introduced for the first time, and marking them accordingly. It’s possible to skim quite a lot this way, and I’m encouraged by how many times the story pulls me in during […]
27
Apr
Today I covered less ground in my manuscript than I would have liked, getting through 30 pages instead of 65. I’m happy with the quality of work, though. I spent some time on the HTRYN forums, getting a better idea of how to proceed which was time well spent. I also got through most of my ‘Main Character’ worksheets, […]
