Write With Me!

As you write your first draft, it's helpful to consider the role of plot. Not only in how it moves your story forward in a rewarding way but how it's essential to make sure that each scene is serving both the "little p plot(s)" and the BIG P PLOT.

There is nothing new in the zoo today, just a discussion of the fundamentals of getting your first draft completed. From consistency to outlines to character generation, I discuss the various topics that I've been keeping in mind as I press on to complete my first draft.

This is it, the last day of daily podcasts! We now shift to weekly episodes where I will spend 10-15 minutes talking about things I've learned about the craft of writing. But I won't get too technical, after all just getting a story down on paper (or digitally) is the aim of a first draft. But the day will be coming when we need to edit this draft so we may as well start the conversation about what makes a good book early.

See you next week and happy writing!

Ever notice that movie credits have a "Story by" and a "Screenplay by" or "Written by" and these can each be attributed to a different person? How can that be? Isn't the storyteller the writer? Not always, sometimes the storyteller is simply the person that comes up with the idea and someone else gets does the actual writing. Well, if we think of it that way, this first draft that we are working on can be seen as simply "the story". The writing doesn't have to be good or even complete, that comes later. Just get the basic story down for your first draft.

A quick and easy reminder to get your 5 minutes done today and make sure to figure out how to get it done consistently on the weekends (if that's an issue for you as it is for me).

I'm getting excited not only for the upcoming writing duration increase but also for some tips and tricks when it comes to effective storytelling, which I'll dole out in bits and pieces soon!

I am locked and loaded, how about you? I'm excited to test out my 5-min schedule with a 15-min schedule soon. Those words are going to really fill up the pages!

I will discuss again towards the end of this week but I'm thinking about implementing 2 rules for when we bump the writing time up to 15 minutes per day (for me only, you can adopt only if you want to): 1) 15 min is a minimum 2) if you happen not to write on a day, don't sweat it, skip it and move on.

This is it,final week of daily podcast episodes which means that we are getting ready, soon, to shift to longer writing sessions and weekly episodes. For now, continue to focus on finding a habitual time to do your 5 minutes of writing.

It's the weekend and I struggled to find a time to write...again! I'll figure it out, I hope you are having better luck.