Midnight tonight signals the start of NaNo (as well as my 24th birthday)! I’m going to try and begin writing some then, even if I only get a few hundred words. I tend to stay up late on any given night anyway (on average going to bed around midnight or so) and normally I’ll stay [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chapters’
Awaiting Midnight
Posted in writing, tagged adventure, birthday, changes, chapters, midnight, NaNoWriMo, novel, novel length, outlines, writing on October 31, 2008 | 8 Comments »
A Rather Productive Weekend…For Me Anyway
Posted in writing, tagged chapters, distractions, NaNoWriMo, productivity, summaries, writing on October 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So, I did manage to get some of my book worked on. Not any actual writing itself, but considerable work on my chapter summaries. I moved them around, added some, deleted others, etc.
I’m also going to condense them a bit so they aren’t as convuluted as they are now. I started working on the smaller [...]
Prologues: Should Your Story Have One?
Posted in writing, tagged chapters, novel, poll, prologue, writing on October 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I know I’ve been wondering whether or not I should have a prologue in my story. I’ve read that a lot of agents don’t like them and many will reject the entire manuscript because it has a prologue. Personally, I think that’s a bit overboard–I’ve read plenty of books that were published and that the [...]
