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October 5, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 35 — Monday Motivation from Meg Cabot
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 comes from bestselling YA novelist (author […]
October 4, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 34 — Sunday Story Reflections
On Sundays, we take a moment to step back and think about our writing from a wider view. In order to do that, I’ll post some guided questions—feel free to answer them here with as much or little detail as you’d like; or answer them on your own blog or on Facebook. Or just write […]
October 3, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 33 — Saturday Review and Catch-Up
Saturdays throughout this challenge are going to be our days to review what we’ve covered during the week, and to catch up on anything we fell behind with. And now that we’re writing, it’s time to catch up with word count if we’ve fallen behind during the previous week, too. When doing any kind of […]
October 2, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 32 — Friday is SWAT Day!
It’s Friday! It’s also the first Friday of the writing portion of our sixty-day challenge. Yesterday, I was traveling, so I didn’t really get a chance to write a full post (I had to do it on my phone in the car at a rest stop—thank goodness for technology!) to explain how we’ll be doing […]
October 1, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 31 — TODAY WE WRITE!
Have you already started? Are you geared up and champing at the bit, waiting for your lunchbreak or for the end of the work day in order to get started writing? Today is our first writing day of the challenge. Please check in when you can with your goal of what you intend to accomplish […]
September 30, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 30 — Tomorrow We Start Writing
We’ve gone through twenty-nine days of prep work in order to get us, hopefully, to the point at which we’re more prepared to sit down and start writing a story than we’ve ever been in our lives. But, if you’re anything like me . . . you’ve probably fallen a bit behind on the planning. […]
September 29, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 29 — Using the #1k1h Method for Marathon Writing
Thursday begins the marathon thirty-day writing portion of this sixty-day challenge. Hopefully you already set your total word-count goal and broke that down into digestible daily goals. (If you haven’t, now would be a good time.) We’ve already discussed the difference between draft writing and regular writing—focusing on draft writing for this challenge in order […]
September 28, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 28 — Writing Your Story Scene by Scene
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you write a novel? One scene at a time. Even for those of us who’ve been doing this for quite some time, it’s tempting when we approach our writing time to think: I’m going to write my novel. But just like with […]
September 27, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Days 26 & 27: Weekend Catch-Up and Sunday Reflections
It’s the final weekend before we begin the writing portion of our sixty days . . . and I missed posting the Saturday catch-up post! (We were celebrating the birthday of one of my best friends yesterday, so it was a very full day.) Hopefully, you forged on without me. Let’s Play Catch(-Up) Rather than […]
September 25, 2015
#FirstDraft60 Day 25 — What Research Do You Need to Do Before You Start Writing?
Whether it’s figuring out where an event could be held, what the weather is like in a certain timeframe, whether or not your state has imminent domain laws, or specific details of an obscure battle five hundred years ago, you’re going to have to look stuff up. And what better time to do it than […]
