I'm going to be busy for the next week or two, so there may not be many blog posts-if any.
One of my triplets got the results he needed to go to University next month, so we're going to be helping him prepare for the move from home.
Meanwhile I'm still writing as and when I can, so keep a watch of my writing totals to see my progress - just added 735 words to chapter 4 before my writing session was disrupted this afternoon.
Sadly no holiday away from home this year because there's so much going on.
But as soon as this slightly chaotic period is over, I'll get back into routine.
In the meantime have fun.
Carol Bevitt's blog on her writing and inspirations, along with occasional literature related news...
Saturday 16 August 2014
Sunday 10 August 2014
The Image Board Works!
That cork board for pinning images has been really worthwhile.
Since last weekend additional pictures have been added - bearing in mind the senses I know what cologne my hero wears and there's a picture of the bottle on the board now.
I also didn't have a title I was happy with when I bought it, but three days later the new title jumped into my conscious, and a quick check on existing book titles on Amazon didn't show a book with that exact title. It also fitted the plot perfectly.
Sadly it will be a few months before I can reveal the new title, as my first three chapters and synopsis have gone off for submitting to the judge.
The first three chapters went through intense rewriting, and I needed to take bits of chapter 4 and make them part of chapter 3, which in turn created a better, but new, Chapter 3 ending. Then it was minor tinkering, changing a word here, a sentence there, or cutting a complete paragraph.
No doubt by the time I finish the complete first draft there will be more ideas I need to include early on, but I'm going to get on with it while my brain is co-operating.
I will certainly be carrying on using the image board with my other stories in future too, as they just made the connections between characters and ideas easier to include or discard.
Also I've realised that for me, writing a little and often soon builds up, and may actually work better for my sometimes hectic family life...
Since last weekend additional pictures have been added - bearing in mind the senses I know what cologne my hero wears and there's a picture of the bottle on the board now.
I also didn't have a title I was happy with when I bought it, but three days later the new title jumped into my conscious, and a quick check on existing book titles on Amazon didn't show a book with that exact title. It also fitted the plot perfectly.
Sadly it will be a few months before I can reveal the new title, as my first three chapters and synopsis have gone off for submitting to the judge.
The first three chapters went through intense rewriting, and I needed to take bits of chapter 4 and make them part of chapter 3, which in turn created a better, but new, Chapter 3 ending. Then it was minor tinkering, changing a word here, a sentence there, or cutting a complete paragraph.
No doubt by the time I finish the complete first draft there will be more ideas I need to include early on, but I'm going to get on with it while my brain is co-operating.
I will certainly be carrying on using the image board with my other stories in future too, as they just made the connections between characters and ideas easier to include or discard.
Also I've realised that for me, writing a little and often soon builds up, and may actually work better for my sometimes hectic family life...
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