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This is an odds and ends day! Lots of illness in my family, so I’m just trying to hang in there and get my 750 words written today. Independent Bookstores Get Branded eBook Reader IndieBound Mobile APP (only for Android right now, but soon for iOS) was released this week. It is a branded ebook [...]
Grinch Tips on Character Stop that! You’re too nice to your characters. The Grinch is despicable and you know it. Did you create nice, wonderful characters? Too bad for you! No one will read it. Take a page from Dr. Seuss. Be nasty when you create characters. Try different physical descriptions, motivations, typical ways of [...]
For the seventh year, Fiction Notes offers writing tips from popular personalities of the season. Tomorrow, the Grinch joins the lineup, with Top 5 Writing Tips from the Grinch (link will work on Friday, Nov. 25). Top Writing Tips from Rudolph, Santa, Frosty, Gingerbread Man, 12 Days of Christmas, and the 3 Kings Santa’s Top [...]
I’ve taken a look at my statistics and here’s the top posts on Fiction Notes for 2009, in order of popularity. Five of these are the first page of a series of posts on a certain topic. The other five are individual posts. Novel Writing. 30 Days to a Stronger Novel. 30 one-minute creative writing [...]
Find a Working Method that Works for You My current WIP novel is at a curious stage. I’ve finished two drafts and now have feedback from two readers. I collated all the critiques onto one printout and have made even more notes on these pages. So, the creative writing problem has been how to proceed [...]
by Joelle Anthony The guest post today is by Joelle Anthony, whose first novel will debut in Summer, 2010: Restoring Harmony (Putnam) It’s always sad to me when a writer tells me that they really need to finish their novel so they can get an agent because they’ve been at this for a couple of [...]
This outline of a scene often helps me plan what to write for the day.
The holidays and the end of the year are bringing out the generous nature of agents! The 2nd Sort-of-Annual Stupendously Ultimate First Paragraph Challenge Deadline: 7pm. EST, Thursday, December 11, 2008. Who: Literary agent Nathan Bransford, Curtis Brown, San Francisco office What: Post the first paragraph of your WIP and compete for the prize of [...]
Creative writing tips, courtesy of the season: Peppermints! When you add sensory details to a story, the most common is visual details. The two most neglected are olfactory (smell) and gustatory (taste). Flavors of the season are peppermint, cinnamon and cloves. Gifts! Give your character something to hold in his/her hands. It’s one of the [...]
I’ve been reading a great new psychology book that should help in developing characters, especially the settings which reveal so much about a character. Snoop Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling, Ph.D. is a fascinating book by a psychologist who studies a person’s environment and what that environment says about you. [...]
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