Stories of Significance
29
Sep
How To Revise Your Novel has required a lot of work, a lot of time and a LOT of worksheets, but Lesson Seven (which ended up using more paper than my novel did) took the cake. And..it was worth it. Here at last l acquired a vocabulary to define not one but several missing elements that before I had no way to […]
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23
Sep
13
Sep
…but I’m working on How To Revise Your Novel again, and actually making progress. The goal is to be done the course by Christmas. It is coming, oh yes.
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 […]
Tags: Gift of the Ancients, Holly Lisle, How To Revise Your Novel, Nanowrimo, Randy Ingermanson, Snowflake
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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