October 2008

on 2008/10/31 by NewMexicoKid, [Writing]

Dwight V. Swain is the author of Techniques of the Selling Writer, a remarkable book on novel writing in that it breaks down the novel into small, easily-understood and well-explained pieces. These pieces and their structure, if well applied, will lead to a gripping tale that is difficult to put down. Here is my mindmapped [...]

on 2008/10/30 by KatherineWriting, [NaperWriMo]

In case you’re chomping at the bit for November 1 (or even if you’re a tiny bit scared that it’s almost here). I was trying to get ahead on critiquing in an online forum that I belong to and came across  a neat template for examing a piece of writing that might provide people another [...]

on 2008/10/26 by NewMexicoKid, [NaperWriMo]

Here we are with less than one week before the start of NaNoWriMo–is your novel preparation complete? While there are those who prefer to plunge into November without much if any preparation, I definitely fall into the camp of people who needs the structure and planning to be in place. Otherwise I find I spend [...]

on 2008/10/23 by NewMexicoKid, [NaperWriMo]

Our final October preparatory workshop is tonight at the downtown Naperville Barnes and Noble (up in the cafe in the second floor). Joe (Corrupted_Flame) and I will be hosting the event. What do we have planned? Well, I wish I could say we have everything planned to a T but the truth is that this [...]

on 2008/10/19 by NewMexicoKid, [NaperWriMo]

I was at the “plot table” the whole session and from the reactions of the participants, I think our exercise was a great success. Here’s what we did (you can try this at home with some of your writing buddies; in fact, we can do some of it in our Illinois::Naperville forum, though online written [...]