Image by DavidTurnbull via Flickr Here’s the short version: I’m dropping out of NaNoWriMo to avoid burnout. Yes, after only five days. But I’m still writing. The long version is that I’m only dropping out on a technicality, and here’s why. See, I’ve written one day on NaNoWriMo thus far. Sunday, I was physically exhausted from ICC [...]
Image by eddyfate via Flickr This weekend I finally took all of the brainstorming I’ve done for Night Fall and starting turning it into an outline. I used a modified version of the Snowflake Method for plotting. Last week I started with a one-sentence"elevator pitch" for the book, and expanded that into a paragraph of five sentences, making sure [...]
Image by eddyfate via Flickr First off, I decided to write Night Fall, the parody novel of female vampire hunter "bad girl" protagonists, featuring Katrina Night. I even mocked up a fake book cover last week and posted it on Flickr, to help me visualize the book itself more clearly. I covered the various reasons [...]