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January 15, 2017
What’s Your Process?
Are you a plotter or a pantser? Do you need detailed outlines and character sketches as a road map or do too many details paralyze you, making you feel like the book has already been written? Currently in the RWR, there are a series of articles about how your Myers-Briggs designation can influence your writing process (introverts often needing quiet isolation for brainstorming, extroverts tending more toward needing someone to bounce ideas off of, etc). However you choose to look at it, one t...
January 12, 2017
Guy Speak
Guy Speak –Keeping the dialogue real.
This is not about a man saying one thing and meaning another.
I’m discussing male dialoguein romance books. It drives me bonkers to read dialogue that has a man speaking like a woman. Male and female brains are hardwired different. While the male and female of the species have the same basic needs they communicated those needs in different ways. Therefore Y chromosomes express themselves differently and their dialogue is going to be different.
We as write...
January 10, 2017
Write On 2017! Your Mission
Have you heard the phrase, Eat the frog first? It references Mark Twain’s famous quote, “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”When I worked in the corporate world, this phrase essentially meant do your toughest work first, and the rest of the day will be a breeze.
Today I’m here to help you craft a writing plan that will help you stay on course and on fire about your writing throughout 2017 (Write On 2017! Worksheet). And it all...
January 9, 2017
Opening Ceremonies for the 2017 Winter Writing Festival!!!!
We now declare the Seventh Annual Ruby Slippered Sisterhood Winter Writing Festival OPEN!Let the Games begin!! To get your BONUS point for today, Tuesday January 10, add a comment here on the regular Ruby Slippered Sisterhood blog (rubyslipperedsisterhood.com) in which you: 1) define how *you personally* will earn your Festival “points”
and
2) declare your commitment to earning 50 points by Feb 28, 2017. (Further details on goal-setting f...January 8, 2017
Writing Regency Romance in a 21st Century World
You know when you have to throw together a dinner party at the last minute because you forgot it was your turn? (One of these days you really need to figure out that calendar thing on your phone that tells you stuff like this ahead of time.) Or your husband forgot to tell you? (Plan the dinner party. Then plan his untimely demise.) Or your mother just assumed since “You’re such a wiz in the kitchen, I knew it wouldn’t be any trouble for you to throw something together for my book club. You ar...
January 5, 2017
GMC For The Author
Think about it. We use GMC to build our books. As writers we are no different from the characters we set up in stories. Writers have Goals just as our characters have. We have the Motivation as to why we want to achieve our goals as do our characters. And we have the internal and external Conflict standing in the way of achieving our goals preventing us from reaching those goals.
GOALS
It is proven individuals with...
January 3, 2017
Write On 2017! Prioritize Your Writing
Stop clowning around!
Say it with me, writer friends: It’s time to stop clowning around and get serious about my writing! Maybe you’re a new writer hankering to finish your first novel. Or maybe you’ve been in the writing trenches a while and need to take that next BIG STEP. Get an agent. Self-publish. Quit your day job. Regardless of where you’re at in the writing journey, you can increase productivity and improve process through a thoughtful and focused writing plan.
Over the next eight Wed...
January 2, 2017
Goal-Setting Advice for the 2017 Winter Writing Festival!
I hope you’re as excited as I am, and ready for some BIG PRODUCTIVITY through what could otherwise be the dreariest part of winter.
To help you get ready, I’m re-posting a blog from previous years about how to get ready and set workable goals:
One of my favorite parts of the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood’s Winter Writing Festival is the fact that you can set your own goals. But of course that means...
January 1, 2017
North Star Or Shooting Star. It Begins.
Next week, during the Ruby Winter Writing Fest, we beginthe quest to bring our imaginary friends to life.
Reading that line, I’ll bet some of you immediately had this mental picture of yourself sitting at your favorite work spot, downing carafes of coffee or tea (or in my case, Diet Coke) while drilling the key board, writing an entire novel, and within six weeks, finishing it with ‘the end’. Good for you. You have a goal.
Yet, I’m sure some of you froze at the word begin because the choicesy...
December 30, 2016
Happy New Year
