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By the seat of my pants…

Posted on August 27, 2016 by raventhemad@yahoo.com

I have been working on a new novel project recently and had a great start. I got to 12000 words and then the dreaded stall. My momentum came to a halt and now I am struggling to get going again. The problem? Pantsing. I have been writing this story using the pantsing method. For anyone not familiar, pantsing is where you just kinda have a general idea where you want your story to go, make up some characters and start writing. You just let the story go where it goes. I am usually an outlining type person. I like to have outlines of the stories based on scenes or chapters so that the writing goes much smoother. This one was different.

I really didn’t even have a full idea of what the story was. I just had a really cool set of characters that I wanted to write about. I put on some music and let the story take me to where the story wanted to go. Unfortunately, I stalled. I came to a point in the story where I had no idea what was going to happen next. So now I am stuck. I have a chapter that I have to get through in order to get going again and nothing is happening.

So now the question is do I start an outline to get me through? Or crack out the bourbon? Hopefully I will find a solution before the three day novel writing weekend. I was intending to get a whole lot more done if not finish the first draft on that weekend. With a goal of 60,000 words, I should be able to get that finished. Just got to pull myself up by the bootstraps and get to work!
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What is your preferred method of writing? Pantsing or outline?

Writing, writing, and more writing!

Posted on August 19, 2016 by raventhemad@yahoo.com

Last Thursday I started working on a new novel. I have a bunch of novels in various states of outlining, and I even have one at the 25000 word mark. That one, unfortunately, is undergoing a plot change that means I need to rewrite a lot of it. Which means I am stalled out on it. This new novel though, was an idea I had that I really wanted to do. To make it even more challenging I wanted to see if I could write the first draft in a month and a half. My target word count is between 60K and 75K as I feel that’s a good length for a novel. I have another goal which is to get more description in. I want my draft chapters to be at least 1500 words.

So I get to writing and start pounding out the story. Only I don’t have an outline or anything, just this really awesome pair of characters. So what do you do in a situation like that? Well, I plugged myself into some music and let it flow through me. I like to listen to acoustic mood music. No lyrics or very few lyrics is the best. It swirls through my brain like a symphony of colors, summoning pictures of places and people. Soon, my fingers were flying across the keyboard.

Today as I write this, just one week after I started this project, I am sitting at 11K words! I just finished Chapter 7. I feel like I should be further in, but I did have a couple days where life happened and I couldn’t write. Doing the math though, I found that I have done on average 1571 words a day. That is a pretty good accomplishment, and if I maintain that pace, a 60K word novel will take 38 days to write. With 7 days down, I’ve got a month to go and the draft to my new book will be done.
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Obviously getting the draft done does not equate to a finished product. Remember that you can’t edit a blank page. Getting the story written is 90% of the battle. That’s why it is so important to really ride yourself into getting that draft done, because when its done the story is out there. Beginning, middle, and end. Once there, you can start polishing that turd into a brilliant literary work of genius!

Keep Writing!

Evolutionary – Again!

Posted on August 4, 2016 by raventhemad@yahoo.com

I finally finished the print version of my book! It was a little difficult and I actually should have done this first. It’s all done now, though, so I am feeling quite accomplished. I also managed to get a more appropriate cover finished and applied. Make sure to check it out on Amazon!

Take the link to the right and follow me on Instagram! That’s where I have been posting my art.
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Posted on March 9, 2016 by raventhemad@yahoo.com

I wanted to give a big thank you to everyone that downloaded my book during the free giveaway. I had over 200 downloads! i have gotten some awesome feedback from people. I even got a 5 star review! I think that this was a successful launch. Hopefully I can keep the momentum going. So if you haven;t already checked it out—–>Evolutionary on Amazon! Read it and let me know what you think!

I am finishing the cover design for the printed version and that should be available by the end of the month. I am pretty excited about that.

In other news, I found our family’s old 8mm film projector and have started to go through some of the old family movies. The bulb is out and I had to order one from Amazon, but i rigged a flashlight up with a mirror to get some light through it. The projector has a preview screen that is smaller and doesn’t require near as much light, so the flashlight will work for now until I get the new bulb. It’s really fascinating to hear the rhythmic ratcheting of a projector and seeing the grainy film play out. The mechanical devices have a life of their own with the gentle whirring and clicking of parts, so different from the soulless silence of a digital device. I guess that’s why I like them.
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Keep writing!

Book Launch!

Posted on February 19, 2016 by raventhemad@yahoo.com

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Writing with chronic pain

Posted on July 2, 2015 by raventhemad@yahoo.com

Writing isn’t easy as it is, but when you have chronic pain it can be its own special kind of hell. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2013/14. It initially started as arthritis like feeling in my hands, feet, knees and back. After seeing a bunch of different specialist and ruling out all the other possibilities they decided it was Fibromyalgia. That is a really horrible diagnosis by the way, to have someone say you have a disease with no known cause and no known cure, just pain management. Lovely. Oh and all the drawing you do and writing will hurt like hell.

Pain Management

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How do you do it?

How do you write during all this pain? You do the best you can. I have tried to learn what triggers my pain. Stress, overdoing exercise are some, but sometimes the pain just flares up for no reason. I take frequent breaks and try not to be in the same position for too long. I have found that typing is easier on me than writing, so I type. Pay attention to what your body is telling you and respond. Pain can make an already tough task of writing harder, but not impossible! Never give up!

That “Bad” Chapter.

Posted on June 23, 2015 by raventhemad@yahoo.com

Writing a novel is educational, and stressful. Probably more stressful than anything else. There are so many areas where writers get tripped up. The other night I was talking to my son who is also an aspiring writer. He was telling me about a friend of his who had been working on a novel for three years. “Three years? What’s the hold up?” I was pretty astounded that someone could stall that long on their work in progress. “There’s this one chapter that just doesn’t work right and they keep going over it trying to fix it.” Ahah, now that was something I could relate to. The “Bad” chapter. That one chapter that you have to have to make your story progress, but which always feels forced or ill worded. It just doesn’t work.

So what do you do with a bad chapter? Well, for me the solution was to skip it. That’s right, I skipped it. I put two sentences that explained what I needed to happen to progress the story and moved on. Once I had a good flow going on the next couple of chapters, I had the bad chapter figured out. One of the things that helped with this was that I had a decent outline for the whole story. It wasn’t super detailed, but it was enough to allow me to put a placeholder in the said chapter and move on. Once the story unfolded in the next chapters, what needed to happen in the bad chapter became obvious. Super easy! Well not really, but it did work for me.

Writing is difficult under the best conditions, but being stuck is the worst feeling ever. Anything that can get you out of that is welcome. The more you write, the easier it gets, and the easier it gets, the more you want to write!
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