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October 19, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 42 — Monday Motivation from Neil Gaiman
On Mondays, I’m going to share some writing advice/motivation from authors who may be well known to you, or whom you may never have heard of. Hopefully, you’ll find inspiration or a new way of looking at or thinking about writing from these little clips. Today, our Monday Motivation is a piece of a Nerdist […]
October 16, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 46 — Self-Evaluation, Awesome Accomplishments, Word Count, and Terrific Tidbits. It’s SWAT Day!
It’s Friday! That means it’s time to check in with your progress in the challenge. On Fridays, I want to know about your full writing week. What were your greatest successes during the week? What was your favorite line/bit that you wrote? What did you learn about yourself, your characters, and/or your story during the […]
October 15, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 45: Thursday Craft Day–Storyboarding to Avoid the Sagging Middle
Sometimes, when we get about 20,000 to 30,000 words into our manuscript, we start losing sight of where the story is going, what we were originally planning to do, or how to get from where we are to the ending we envisioned in the planning process. When the words/ideas just won’t come, that’s when it’s […]
October 14, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 44 — Weekly Story Bible Check-Up
In order to be able to focus on writing as much as we can on a daily basis, keeping our Story Bibles updated is going to be important. So on Wednesdays, be sure to schedule additional time to review your Story Bible and see what needs to be updated or revised. Since Story Bibles can […]
October 13, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 43 — Timer Tuesday (#1k1h Sprint Day)
If you haven’t yet participated in a 1k1h writing sprint during this challenge, you may not have had the chance yet to discover just how much you can do when you push yourself to focus solely on writing for a solid hour. These one-hour sprints can help build word count and our story’s momentum when […]
October 12, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 42 — Monday Motivation from Brad Herzog
On Mondays, I’m going to share some writing advice/motivation from authors who may be well known to you, or whom you may never have heard of. Hopefully, you’ll find inspiration or a new way of looking at or thinking about writing from these little clips. Today, our Monday Motivation is a TED talk on capturing […]
October 9, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 39 — Friday is SWAT day! Check in with Your Project
It’s Friday! That means it’s time to check in with your progress in the challenge. On Fridays, I want to know about your full writing week. What were your greatest successes during the week? What was your favorite line/bit that you wrote? What did you learn about yourself, your characters, and/or your story during the […]
October 8, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 38 — Thursday Craft Day: Creating Tension and Upping the Ante for your Characters
On Thursdays throughout the writing portion of the challenge, I’m going to focus on an area of craft that, unlike some, will actually help you in getting your draft written, instead of making you want to go back and revise what you’ve already written. Today, let’s get some tension up in here! You hear and […]
October 7, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 37 — Weekly Story Bible Check Up
In order to be able to focus on writing as much as we can on a daily basis, keeping our Story Bibles updated is going to be important. So on Wednesdays, be sure to schedule additional time to review your Story Bible and see what needs to be updated or revised. Since Story Bibles can […]
October 6, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 36 — Timer Tuesday (#1k1h Writing-Sprint Day)
Last week, we discussed 1k1h writing sprints and how useful they can be in helping us build our word count and our story’s momentum when doing a marathon writing challenge like this. On Tuesdays, the challenge will be scheduling and completing at least one 1k1h writing sprint some time during the day. Today, I will […]
