#NaNoPrep101, Creating Societies Worlds are comprised of plants, animals, and geology, which we touched upon in the first post of this series. But if intelligent life-forms are living on that world, there will also be societies. We humans are tribal and like having an overarching power structure because someone has to be the leader, which […]
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#NaNoPrep101: Building Characters If you have been following this series, you know that I rely heavily on a storyboard. If you are curious how I create this thing, you can find the first post here: #NaNoPrep: part 1: What’s the Story? But don’t worry. The list of articles in this series is included at the bottom […]
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#NaNoPrep: part 1: What’s the Story? I have developed mad skills at carving out time for writing because I participate in NaNoWriMo every November. As a municipal liaison for the Olympia area, I must get a minimum of 1,667 new words written each day. I suggest to my fellow writers that they shoot for 1,670 […]
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#NaNoPrep101, Setting: Creating the Big Picture Today we’re going to visualize the place where our proposed NaNoWriMo 2021 novel is set. Where do you see your story taking place? In the real world? A fantasy realm? Space? An alternate dimension? Alternate Earth? Setting is what we are focusing on today. Much of my work is set […]
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Character Development: Narrative Time Last week, we discussed how the descriptive narrative of a story is comprised of three aspects: Narrative point of view is the perspective, a personal or impersonal “lens” through which a story is communicated. Narrative time is the grammatical placement of the story’s time frame in the past or the present, i.e., present tense (we go) […]
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Storyboarding character development #amwriting Every year, I participate in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). This happens in November and is thirty days of dedicated writing. Authors with an idea for a novel sit down and daily write at least 1,667 words of a first draft. This month of concentrated writing time is meant to help […]
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World-building by Connie J. Jasperson Part one: climate – Here Part two: maps, place names, and consistency #amwriting – Here
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