I learnt the original form of the scene by scene summary from the UBC novel writing courses on EdX and it has the following elements: As time goes by and I read more writer craft books I had come to think that for me at least, what the characters want is often not foremost onContinue reading “Scene by Scene breakdown”
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Moonlake’s Writing Updates- June 2025
After a rest of about a week after my recent trip, I went back to my drafting but there was no juice to it. So sometimes towards the end of last week, I decided I would remake the WIP into a scene by scene summary on index cards. Why am I doing this and whatContinue reading “Moonlake’s Writing Updates- June 2025”
Leveraging Gaming in Fiction Writing
In a bid to rejuvenate my WIP, I have started to leverage gaming into fiction by turning all of the main characters in the novel into character sheets under FATE Core (more on this in the post next week), a particular system for text based roleplaying. So far, my protagonists went without hitch and IContinue reading “Leveraging Gaming in Fiction Writing”
Let’s take an inventory of obsessions:
Not sure where the jumping off line (let’s take an inventory of obsessions) is from but it says all about this piece. Let’s take an inventory of obsessions: Chinese lore, I know that’s too broad but hard to refine this. I mean, I’m interested in an assortment of stuff that I group in under it:Continue reading “Let’s take an inventory of obsessions:”
Writing Updates- March 2025
From about mid-January this year, I have had to pick up the itinerary planning for our upcoming European trip to Spain and Portugal. I was originally going to start on that much later given the original plan of going in October. But given my study plans and how my supervisor wants to work with meContinue reading “Writing Updates- March 2025”
Moonlake’s Writing Space (and Routine)
The photo is not actually my writing space. Mine consists of only a single monitor and a keyboard and none of the other stuff but it is much too cluttered and I don’t want you to see how messy it is. But I chose the pic above because it is pretty much the standard setupContinue reading “Moonlake’s Writing Space (and Routine)”
Writing Goals 2025
The broad goal is to get to draft 0.84 which I didn’t get to last year. To be honest, it’s gotten to the point where the delineation between my decimal drafts is pretty arbitrary. I’m incrementing a draft whenever I see significant progress. As to what constitutes as significant, even I don’t have an answerContinue reading “Writing Goals 2025”
Sometimes I lose my way…
This is from Write New Headlines by Andy Stanley. Sometimes I lose my way. Usually in the small things but then that’s usually how it goes. Sometimes I lose my way. More often I stick to known paths. That’s what you do if you’re direction blind. And prudent. Sometimes I lose my way, in time. Continue reading “Sometimes I lose my way…”
Moonlake’s Writing Updates- December 2024
I have to be honest and say that I had to revisit my Writing Goals for 2024 post in order to write this. In short, I did not meet my broad goal at all. I’m still at draft 0.83. In terms of the finer goals, the first is redundant. I had definitely gone past theContinue reading “Moonlake’s Writing Updates- December 2024 “
I wonder why people never…
The jump-off line is actually invented by Laurie Wagner, inspired by An Ordinary Day by Jean Reinhold. I wonder why people never expect things to go wrong until they do? Inborn optimism or protagonist syndrome? I wonder why people never talk about the failures or think about them even if they are talked about? WhyContinue reading “I wonder why people never…”
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