Tag Archives: Pretober

When you think of point of view, think of the “central intelligence” of your story – it is the thing that operates the eyes, ears, memory, and revelations, the thing through which your narrative is sifted and makes its progress. It is indicated by the pronouns that we use. In first person, we use I/me.Continue reading “Pretober – Voice”

Kurt Vonnegut said, ‘I don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system – it’s a quest.’ Others, like the author of Room Emma Donoghue, prefer to have a guiding base structure. She notes that ‘Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can’t.Continue reading “Pretober – Plotting”

For some of you, when writing your stories, you may be doing more than just inventing characters and their lives. You may choose to take on creating a brand new, never before seen world for them to live in. The biggest piece of advice I can give you in this endeavor is just to makeContinue reading “Pretober – Setting”

Are you participating in NaNoWriMo this year? If so, the best way to set yourself up to be successful for it is to do as much planning as you can now so that when you sit down to write 50K in 30 Days, you can just go go go. One thing we can plan inContinue reading “Pretober – Characters”