How To Win Nanowrimo In Three Steps by chateaugrief, literature
Literature
How To Win Nanowrimo In Three Steps
Win Nanowrimo in Three Steps
So, we're halfway through November, and if my experience is anything to go by, your wonderful impeccable plot has disintegrated into something like this:
"Hey John," said Jane angrily, "Why didn't you return my text?"
John looked up.
"I waited for you," she continued. "There's someone else, isn't there?"
John slowly shook his head. "No," he said. "It's because I don't have hands! You don't have hands! While we weren't paying attention, one of father's dastardly mages has turned us into a pair of disembodied heads!"
Well, fear not. 50000 words/30 days =1667 is the nanowrimo-winning number, and fixing the
Characters and Plot: How Your OC Fits in the Plot by Pepper-the-phoenix, journal
Characters and Plot: How Your OC Fits in the Plot
Novel Writing Basics Week
Next to figuring out the plot, character creation is probably the most important thing a starting novelist needs to do. While the plot is important and can be all nice and fancy, it is the characters that carry the plot, engage your readers, and makes your world real. Basically without characters, your novel would just be an outline of things that happened with pretty descriptions of trees and china cabinets.
That being said, creating a character can be a somewhat mysterious process. We have all encountered the following questions: what makes a character boring? How do I know this character isn’t useless? Sh
Novel Writing Basics Week
What is a Character Arc?
A character arc is how a character changes from the beginning of the story to the end. These aren't just physical changes, though those might happen, too. These are changes that occur because after your character has gone through whatever the story entrails, s/he can't (or at least shouldn't) be the same person afterwards. Characters might mature. They might become more selfless. They might learn to have fun. They might make a friend. They might learn to let someone go. All of these are character arcs.
Why Are Character Arcs Important?
Reading is a huge time investment, but one of the reaso
Taking Time: The Art of Time Managment by Ragemoon, journal
Taking Time: The Art of Time Managment
Novel Writing Basics Week
The biggest part of writing, and finishing a piece of literary work is actually doing it. This should be the easy part. Yet it is finding the time to write; that is the writers' battle. It is carving out the time in our busy days to do the thing, to work on the writing project that we procrastinate about. How do we as writers get the thing that we want to get done, which is simple writing? Without giving into the daily time wasters like DA, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, ect. That take so much of our time up.
One of the first steps is to choose, and stake out where you are going to write. Pick a part of your home that
The Hero's Journey Workshop by illuminara, journal
The Hero's Journey Workshop
Ever heard of the Hero's Journey? Confused by the mythological-sounding terms? Never fear! This article will provide you with a basic understanding of the origin, concept, and use of the Hero’s Journey in modern storytelling.
What Is the Hero’s Journey?
Originally proposed by an American mythological researcher named Joseph Campbell, the Hero’s Journey is an all-embracing metaphor for the deep inner journey of transformation that heroes from all eras seem to share. Years of research lead Campbell to discover several basic stages that almost every hero endures regardless of origin or culture. He called this common structure
Don't Panic!: It's National Writing Month! by Rose-Em, journal
Don't Panic!: It's National Writing Month!
“There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground. Where it will likely require medical attention.”
― Chris Baty
Don't Panic!: It's National Writing Month!
...hahahHAHAHAHAHA-AHAHAHAHHH - I can assure you that after last year, I persist to be an entirely sane, functional, and generally rational human being. In any case you think that I've lost any quantity of marbles, please keep it to yourself, or slide your insults under the door. Thank you.
NaNoWriMo Error by emmadaiou28 (https://www.deviantart.com/emmadaiou28)
What is NaNoWriMo?