Drops of Blood

Last year I found Diana Peterfreund’s excellent blog post about using a plotting board, and I tried it for my novel. This method captures the novel’s plot points on Post-It notes that you rearrange on a big white poster board or, in my case, a three-panel science fair display board that I can fold up [...]

Some writers seem to enjoy the process of discovering their novels as they go along, rather than plotting it to pieces. Diana Abu-Jaber is one such author. On the 8/14/07 podcast of Writers on Writing, Diana quoted another writer about letting go of the death-grip on the creative process and just seeing where your imagination [...]

Yesterday was kind of skimpy on the word count, but today was back up to snuff. The total for yesterday and today is 2,531 words. (I’d been hoping for 4,000, but right now with my part-time writing, around 2K seems to be my magic number.) I’m just tickled to have a cool new plot [...]