by Shannon Dittemore | Nov 2, 2018 | Author Life, NaNoWriMo
It’s day two of National Novel Writing Month! Who put words on the page yesterday? I did! To be honest, my day started off a little rough. Construction crews rolled into my court at 8am and set up camp in the front yard. The noise, you guys! But, the upside of...
by Shannon Dittemore | Oct 26, 2018 | Author Life, NaNoWriMo
Roll call! Who’s doing NaNoWriMo? “What’s NaNoWriMo?” you ask. Well! Let me tell you all about it. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It was started in 1999 by a guy named Chris Baty – which, basically means this...
by Shannon Dittemore | Oct 19, 2018 | First Drafts, Grow An Author
It’s Friday again! Doughnuts all around, methinks! Over the past few weeks we’ve been discussing the cracks that have a tendency to show up in our manuscripts when we reach the mid-way point of our first draft. We’ve looked at ways to address...
by Shannon Dittemore | Oct 12, 2018 | First Drafts, Grow An Author, Plot, Story Structure
Over the past few Fridays, we’ve been talking about the pitfalls of story middles. Often it’s here, in the dead center of things, that we begin to notice the cracks climbing through the words of our tale. It’s easy to panic and abandon our story for something new and...
by Shannon Dittemore | Oct 5, 2018 | First Drafts, Grow An Author
Writing a story is no easy task, but it’s fun to dream up new lives and new worlds, and our initial excitement often gives us the momentum to make a fair amount of progress up front. For most of us, the cracks in our stories don’t start appearing until we’ve reached...
