Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. We learned last week about the fifth Pillar of Genre, Fiction. Specifically, we went over a definition for Fantasy, and we talked about some examples of how to write it. This week starts the National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, and even in years where I have no specific project or aren’t wholly committed to the challenge, I often still love talking about my experiences with the entire NaNoWriMo experience. Let’s get started.
Year of Drafting
In this post we're going to briefly recap all the things we've learned about writing drafts and about revising them throughout the year. If you've missed any of these lessons, you can find them all linked on the blog.
How to Fast Draft a Series
This week’s blog post is about fast drafting your series. Last time we talked about fast drafting your novel and why you might use it as a strategy. This week I want to deep dive into the specifics of how you go about accomplishing this type of drafting.
Write a Successful Series
Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello Lovelies and welcome back to the blog. It’s all the rage. Publishers and readers alike agree. Writing novels in a series is where it’s at. Last week we talked about some of the drawbacks of writing a series … Read more
The Drawbacks to Publishing a Series
Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello Lovelies and welcome back to the blog. It’s all the rage. Publishers and readers alike agree. Writing novels in a series is where it’s at. But did you consider that for an author, this may be a hard … Read more
Make a Solid First Draft
Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. Last week we started talking about revisions and how to get through your draft process. I gave you an overview of how to work through a revision in a way that … Read more
Terry Goodkind’s Drafting Method
Click this link to hear this blog post as a podcast with your favorite podcasting app! Hello lovelies and welcome back to the blog. Two weeks ago, I talked about how many drafts a writer needs. As with everything, it depends on a number of elements. I wanted to provide a contrasting sort of comparison … Read more
Brandon Sanderson Drafting Method
Brandon Sanderson is a writer who goes through many revisions. He talks about this over several years during his BYU class lectures on YouTube, and I wanted to distill his process down from several videos, which I will link at least one of them in the description for the podcast and below this blog article for anyone who wants to hear him talk about it more in depth.
What is a First Draft?
Hello Lovelies, and welcome back. We talked last week about what a Zero Draft is and whether or not you want to write one. This week, I want to talk about a more common concept, that of a first draft. Let's dive in. What is a First Draft? A first draft, also known as a … Read more
Zero Draft to First Draft
Hello there lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. We've been going through a series about drafting and have covered both Zero Drafts and First Drafts. Today I want to talk about how you move from your zero draft to a finished first draft. As I've spoken about before, I consider any zero draft to … Read more