So, I’m debating squishing the Chronos pot. I may just be taking a break from it. But here’s what my work on it has taught me so far. 1. PLAN, PLAN, PLAN! — Yeah, definitely number one. I spent about 2-3 months planning Chronos. I planned characters, but not well enough. I planned out my [...]
Archive for June, 2010
What Writing a Novel Has Taught Me
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Dan Wells’s Seven-Point Story Stucture
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
So, other than Brandon Sanderson’s sage advice, Dan Wells gave what I found to be the best presentation at LTUE (the aforementioned symposium at BYU.) His presentation was on story structure, something I have been struggling with since I started trying to write a novel. (I began planning Chronos in August of 2008. I wrote it from [...]
Squish Your Pots
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brandon Sanderson, writing methods and theories on June 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Everything you touch isn’t going to be a work of art, so stop expecting it to be.
