Now that I’ve been using the 10 by 10 Character Grids for a while now and found that I liked them as a way to let me get into my characters, I thought I will start a series to explore each element of them in greater details, which is basically creating a tips series forContinue reading “Dissecting Character Grids (1)- Relationships”
Category Archives: Writer’s Craft
Writer’s Awakening- Colin Palmer (2)
Moonlake: So now we return to the interview with Colin Palmer. Hearing about your story with this big company, I definitely felt like they were toying with you. But at least you made a comeback. So how did the comeback come about? Wow, that’s a mouthful there lol. Colin: Ten years later, in another countryContinue reading “Writer’s Awakening- Colin Palmer (2)”
Writer’s Awakening- Colin Palmer (1)
Moonlake: Hi, I’m Moonlake Ku and welcome to the Writer’s Awakenings interviews. Today, we have author Colin Palmer with us. Firstly, tell us about yourself and your journey into writing, Colin. Colin: My name is Colin Palmer and I am a writer! I’ve been writing fiction for almost all my life, that’s over fifty years. When IContinue reading “Writer’s Awakening- Colin Palmer (1)”
No-show Alpha/Beta Readers: What do you do?
I do nothing (besides trying to contact them to find out why and show understanding if that’s due to their life circumstances and basically letting it go). Seriously, then why blog about this, you say? Well, while I basically just accept it as an occurrence that I have to be prepared for as a writer,Continue reading “No-show Alpha/Beta Readers: What do you do?”
2 Lessons I learnt from “Fast Food” Reading
So before I go into the 2 lessons, let me first provide the context for this post: the ‘fast food’ reading in the title referred to the serial fictions written in my mother tongue of Chinese that I had been reading on the Internet in my period of ‘unemployment’ after I broke away from PhD.Continue reading “2 Lessons I learnt from “Fast Food” Reading”
Writer’s Achievement Diary- What I learnt from this Exercise
So I’ve stopped updating the diary but I will just say that I reached all of my set monthly goals for the novel that I was outlining and now it finally had a tentative name- The Convergence of Paths belonging to a series called the Seekers’ Chronicles. Basically, round 1 outline for book 1 isContinue reading “Writer’s Achievement Diary- What I learnt from this Exercise”
The Short Story and Me (2)
As a change, this week we are skipping author interviews. It will come back next week though. Thought I will do a re-run on this since my stance on it has changed yet again now that I have broken off my association with the epub completely. Previously, I’ve talked about myself as a writer andContinue reading “The Short Story and Me (2)”
Writer’s Awakening- Mandy Melanson
Moonlake: Hi, I’m Moonlake Ku and welcome to the Writer’s Awakenings interviews. Today, we have Mandy Melanson with us. Firstly, tell us about yourself and your journey into writing, Mandy. Mandy: First off, I’m a single mom to 3 amazing kids. I think I’ve always been a writer. I can remember making up stories inContinue reading “Writer’s Awakening- Mandy Melanson”
Writer’s Awakening- Murray Taylor
Moonlake: Hi, I’m Moonlake Ku and welcome to the Writer’s Awakenings interviews. Today, we have author Murray Taylor with us. Firstly, tell us about yourself and your journey into writing, Murray. Murray: Well I’m a student studying education and English from a rural-suburban background. I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember, fromContinue reading “Writer’s Awakening- Murray Taylor”
Writer’s Achievement Diary- 23 July 2017
Mon 17/07/2017 Revised 2 major plotlines reported as problematic by pre-alphas (equivalent to 2 achievements) Determined the overall shape of revision required up to chap 30 Tue 18/07/2017 Resolved 1 loose plot-point in iteration 1 Worked through to the end of book 1 and tagged down chapters for expansion/revision after collapsing of scenes Wed 19/07/2017Continue reading “Writer’s Achievement Diary- 23 July 2017”
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