I'm starting to hear my main character's voice in my head while I write. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?! I can tell I'm deep into the story now, because I tend to think almost hyperactively, type furiously and flit around the house doing this and that and so-many-different-things-all-at-the-same-time. Phew! Either way,…
After last night's 11pm coffee fix, I almost couldn't turn my brain off, and ended up writing for another 3 hours. I suppose I shouldn't complain – there was a time where words failed to come to me at all, so really the inconvenience of having to get out of bed at 3am, turn the…
After brainstorming on 4 different short story ideas over the past week, I finally settled on one for my entry for the Candlelight Anthology. t took me 2 days and approx. 6 pages of handwritten notes to flesh out the plot and piece it together so it made sense, but having finally decided that I…
I never thought I would say this – but I think I am finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. No, I'm not dying! I think I am finally nearing the end of my book outline! I sort of did things backwards – or twisted – or all a-flutter. But…
I'm completely crestfallen that I only found out about this today : Canada Council Heritage Series presents Foresight: Speculative Fiction in Canada Panel discussion: HOWTO write (and publish) genre fiction Author Jim Munroe (An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil ) moderates a panel of three up-and-coming local writers – Emily Pohl-Weary (Strange Times at Western…
This afternoon, I've been tracing plot threads, and fleshing out the personalities of my characters with their deeper motivations. I feel like much of my outline is still very disjointed, with abandoned ideas needing to be weeded out so I can see the whole story more clearly. But today is the first day in a…