Yesterday, we reviewed the Whys of falling in love, and how we might build that into our romance. Just to add a shameless plug here – if you want to know how to build a full-fledged romance, try Kiss and Tell, my brand new workbook on writing a romance! (Check it out here: http://stores.mybooktherapy.com) So, bringing this back to the story: How do the hero and heroine complete each other? For Kenzie, it’s that she remembers who she is. For Luke, it’s the sense that he doesn’t have to be alone. I’ll be building on that in the next scene. Once I figure out the romance element I’m building, I’ll also take a look at the kind of scene I’m building. In this case, it’s a combo scene […]
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Finish the Race Well
At My Book Therapy we kicked off NaNoWriMo on the Monday night chat with advice from Beth Vogts. Susan Warren ended the evening with cyber karaoke of Stand By Me. I love these classic words, “I won’t be afraid, no I won’t be afraid.” Part of writing a novel, whether in a month or in a year, is overcoming fear. Insecurities surface. Life interrupts and demands our attention. Two pages into our opening paragraph we discover we’ve already written every great idea we had about the book and now we’ve no place to go! The temptation is to quit. So we never start at all. As you attempt NaNoWriMo, keep these things in mind. 1. Writing is hard work. Period. Forget what everyone else is doing, how fast they are […]
Read the RestIgnoring My Internal Editor
Fun. That’s what I told everyone: The 2010 MBT WriMo Celebration was going to be fun! And then I set my alarm for November 1, 2010. Bounded out of bed that morning before anyone else in the house was awake. Ran downstairs, ignoring the dogs whining for breakfast. Settled in front of my computer, ready to go. Because I had 50k words to write in 30 days. This was gonna be fun.And then the screaming started.Not me—Ed, as in my Internal Editor, started screaming.For every word I typed, he screamed a barrage of insults. “That’s an awful opening line!”“You need a bigger DELETE button!”“You should’ve stayed in bed! The dogs could write better than this!”Oh, yeah. This was some kind of fun.Writing that morning was a-g-o-n-y. There was only one […]
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