C.B. Lee's Blog, page 84
March 26, 2016
Taking Steps to Strengthen Your Plot
So, you’ve finished your first draft. Congrats! You’ve taken a huge step, but there’s still a lot of work to do. It can be easy to point out grammatical or spelling errors, but understanding what’s fundamentally wrong with your story can take some time. If you liked what you’ve written, but you feel like something’s missing, here are a few ways to figure out if you need to strengthen your story’s plot:
Revisit character motivations
If you want to work on strengthening the p...
March 25, 2016
"In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration...."
“In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration. Consequently there must be some little quality of fierceness until the habit pattern of a certain number of words is established. There is no possibility, in me at least, of saying, “I’ll do it if I feel like it.” One never feels like awaking day after day. In fact, given the smallest excuse, one will not work at all. The rest is nonsense. Perhaps there are people who can work that way, but I cannot. I...
