This first one is from the daily postings over on Tara Lazar’s website. She has guests sharing thoughts and inspirations for Picture Book Idea Month. This particular post was a wow moment for me. Some fantastic suggestions for finding ideas. And honestly this could apply to writing short stories, poetry, chapter books novels…looking to add a quirky character? A crazy little sister to your wip…check out Jean Riedy’s suggestions:
This one is just a great all over read about revising and how the magic of story really happens in December or whenever you start revising. Plus she has a great before and after contest going on. Check it out (and the rest of her blog is might fine too. Thanks to The Year of Living Dangerously (yep, Michael G-G, Middle Mafiosa famous)
As I have been working away on HAPPY MEDIUM the oddest thing is happening. A character is changing even as I write her. She is (was?) the bully, the mean girl. But there is a side of her coming out that Happy might even like. So, I need to explore that more. Yes. Stop the Nano-ing word count upping in order to explore Courtney (a.k.a. arch nemesis). Liked this next link, because I am going to do just this. Put Happy and Courtney up against each other and see how they compare, what’s the same, what’s different...
Writability: Do You Really Know Your Characters?
That’s it from me. Happy writing, revising, eating candy/chocolate/cake/chips to keep the NANO energy up.
So many thanks for cross posting the contest!
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