Blog posts about NaNoWriMo – the annual November writing marathon.
Water for Elephants is a NaNoWriMo book, by Sarah Gruen.
It came in the top 10 (at number 7, to be exact) of the #FridayReads group in Twitter, for the 1st week in Jan 2011.
I am going to order it from my local library. Tomorrow.
Or, maybe, buy it from Amazon.
If, like me, you wrote a novel without any planning – maybe during NaNoWriMo month – and are now wondering whether your new masterpiece is publishable, this article explains why it certainly isn’t.
A Mindset Shift That Can Get You Published is a great article I stumbled upon.
If, like me, you wrote a novel without any planning – maybe during NaNoWriMo month – and are now wondering whether your new masterpiece is publishable, this article explains why it certainly isn’t.
Larry Brooks says:
.. your draft doesn’t stand a chance until the story is solidly, front to back, fully conceived. If you haven’t landed on a theme, a pace, on context and sub-text, if you haven’t discovered what your character arc is, if you don’t know how things are going to end…
And his advice, in a nutshell, is this –
Consider writing as two sequential processes:
1. The search for the story.
2. The rendering of the story.
What excellent advice this is. So, I must treat my NaNoWriMo writing as the search for my story (which it was). Now all I have to do (all!) is render it into a proper novel by rewriting it.
For the rewriting, I will turn to Holly Lisle for help. She shares an excellent article,‘How to Revise a Novel’ on her website.
First of all, I have to finish the damn thing.
Should be finishing my NaNoWriMo novel….
Still procrastinating and playing with YouTube now!
Now NaNoWriMo has finished, there is work to be done.
What do I do instead? Make animated cartoons on the internet, of course!
Of course I couldn’t resist.
Above is one version of my NaNoWriMo blog word cloud
Below is one I created earlier…
Ruth Livingstone 