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What’s Your Next Book? The Brightest Timeline Knows.
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(note: this was originally a twitter thread. You can read the original thread here.) Since it’s easier to solve other people’s problems than your own, I procrastinated on my own scene problems to listen to another writer’s dilemma about which book to write next. What follows is a trick for figuring out what you…
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How to Brainstorm Scene Location Details from a Panic-stopping Technique
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(This blog post was originally a thread on twitter, rewritten to be a decent blog post.) The first scene I need to write today takes place in a new setting location. For new setting locations I write up descriptions that I can use not just as backdrop but as elements to bring the reality…
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A Visual Guide to a Reverse Outline
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107k Words. 76 Scenes. 16 Pages. What you’re looking at is an essential document for the complex operation that is transforming my first draft into a revised draft. It’s scary, isn’t it? I like to think that it’s beautifully organized. That’s the entire scene by scene outline of the first draft of Stormsong –…
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Two Books without Music: My Persnickety Playlist Needs
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There’s something really unusual about the creation process of both Witchmark and its sequel, Stormsong: they were mostly written in silence. I’m usually a playlist maker. I usually write to music, a habit that sparks debate among writers about whether sound or silence is the better environment. Now with my fanfic, I was forever…
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Witchmark – Pre-Order Now
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C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and romance. In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, cabals of noble families use their unique magical gifts to control the fates of nations, while one young man seeks…
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Doing it backwards
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Sometimes it’s hard to figure out how to yoke your Character arc to the external plot. When I’m planning, I have a series of questions I ask myself when I’m making sure that I have the right character for the shiny plot idea I figured out, but when I’m making sure that the arc…
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The #onebookjuly Challenge!
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… start the month of July with the basics: One Book. One Pen. See where it takes you. And I read that, and thought to myself, *Oh hecking darn.*
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Daily Logging – a 30 Day BulletJournal Experiment
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I am not a planner. I’m a recorder. So, why not record what I did, to build a journaling habit?
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My Knitting Attention Span is Terrible
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Up there is the beginnings of a very simple shawl – once you get past the fiddly cast on, it’s the definition of mindless. Stockinette in the round, with very occasional increase rounds, to make a huge circle out of any yarn you want. I chose a cashmere laceweight yarn for mine, but you…