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Hello! Still sleeping a lot, but I seem to be on the mend. I wrote a new short story! And I have the next step of the Snowflake process for you! I’m adapting the process a bit – for one, I’ve got more than 30 secondary characters making up the various communities in Thrae, and [...]
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So, this step in the Snowflake Method involves expanding your paragraph summary to a full page, and says that it’s ok to go longer. That’s good, cause I went longer… quite a bit longer! I can’t wait to hear what everyone thinks of this. :) Sabrina always thought she was normal. Sure, she starts to [...]
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LOL! Not all of them, quite yet. Here’s step 3 of the Snowflake Method: The above gives you a high-level view of your novel. Now you need something similar for the storylines of each of your characters. Characters are the most important part of any novel, and the time you invest in designing them up [...]
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Earlier this week someone sent me a link to The Snowflake Method, and I have to say, I’m intrigued. Since we’re not very far into the outline for the Hero’s Quest version of the novel, I’ve decided to give it a shot. The basic idea behind the snowflake method is mathematical – fractals, to be [...]
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The semester is over, yay! And I’m writing almost every day, which is amazing. I love it. I’m considering whether to post here more often over the summer, so we can hurry up the outline process and get to the actual writing. :D We left off with Sabrina making the switch from the human world [...]
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I actually had this post ready last week, and never got around to queuing it up on the site. We’re going into the final three weeks of the semester, and it’s shaping up to be utterly insane. Given that, I’ll be putting the blog here on hiatus until all four final projects are turned in [...]
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I got some lovely e-mails from people who liked last week’s cookie – yay! I wish I could follow up with another, but no such inspiration struck during my outlining this week. Instead, I’ve managed to jump forward another four and a half scenes, and I’m starting to work additional conflicts into the plot. It’s [...]
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This blurb from Sabrina and Irem’s conversation dropped into my mind as I was working on the outline, and I wanted to share it here. I’m really happy that these pieces are beginning to pop up as I work with the story structure, because (for me) it means the characters are beginning to take shape [...]
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Ok, now that we’ve gone through the outline for the psychic exploration, I’ve come up with an utterly brilliant (if I do say so myself) twist to include in the Hero’s Quest. Not only does it solve a lot of the problems I was wrestling with, it lets me kick the subtext of the piece [...]
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