When to Retool
I’ve been having difficulty getting back to my Motes novel since I finished up moderating the MidSummer Madness II novel outlining workshop. I sat down and wrote a few thousand words and stopped at a point where I encountered negative enthusiasm.
Now rewriting is something I don’t enjoy. In fact, it’s a real grind, but if [...]
Midsummer Madness II comes to an end.
The novel writing workshop I moderated at Liberty Hall Writers Group is coming to an end this weekend. It was a forty-two day marathon. We started with about eight participants and ended with four, counting me. The workshop is really centered around planning a novel.
The other three participants are discovery writers, known in the group [...]
Owasm Gets Another WotF HM
Found out yesterday that I snagged another Honorable Mention in the L.Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. That makes 3 HMs in 5 entries.
The writer’s group that I use to help me hone my WotF entries had six honorable mentions and two finalists for the Q02, 2010 contest. There is a contest every quarter.
I’ve [...]
Midsummer Madness II - Halfway there!
I started the Midsummer Madness II Workshop at Liberty Hall on July 5th. Now it’s July 26th. Time flies. Especially with one of the participants where their novel takes place in another dimension where Mr. Time (a former working name) lives.
What have we gone through? We’ve worked on novel concepts with 20 paragraph summaries. We’ve [...]
Map for LH Midsummer Madness II novel outline
I like to do maps, so I decided to share this one I did as a guide to creating the journey for the main character, a 16 or 17 year old girl who’s given the greatest power in her world, but lacks the means to use it and is pursued by those who would kill [...]
Midsummer Madness II @ Liberty Hall Writers
I’ve done a lot of posting and have done a lot of challenges at Liberty Hall Writers Group. In order to give back a bit, I volunteered to conduct a workshop on novel planning. Note that I didn’t say novel writing. I would consider myself competent on novel planning having done two last year. Writing? [...]
Shorts and Retorts
My short stories are still floating around in slush piles everywhere. I’ve got six out at present. A few rejections have come in. I’ve been going back into my WIP and doing some rewrites of promising stories. Some are out for their fourth submission.
I’ve had to write a couple of stories to decide what to [...]
Novel Progress
I’m getting antsy to write my thriller novel. I did a little character building today. Research is going to have to be done on this one. I imagine I’ll be using Google earth instead of a taking trips to sites. I hope Google view is still up and running when I need to look at [...]
Emerging: Status
I can’t believe it’s been a month since I last posted. Since then I’ve written three or four flashes, two short stories and a query and synopsis for Panix.
I’ve had less interaction on the two boards I inhabit, Hatrack Writers Workshop and Liberty Hall. But that’s okay, I’ve been concentrating on baseball (hooray for MLB.TV) [...]
Emerging from my funk
I won (barely) a flash challenge at Liberty Hall this week. The key thing was not the win, but that I wrote 1,600 words of passable prose in 90 minutes. The ideas came and some were a tiny bit novel. It gives me confidence that I can get better. When I came home from the [...]
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