Exerts from the week:
In which our hero reads through her diary and figures out what to put into her blog post that won’t spoil her story too much.
I’ve mainlined 4 seasons of Writing Excuses so far. I’m currently on season 5. So what have I learned?
One. How I write is not wrong.
I knew this deep down already but there was always a little worry at the back of my head that was saying that how I worked was somehow wrong. I don’t have a hugely detailed notebook that has entire character histories in it. Every detail of each scene is not planned out in minute detail…in fact, when I tried this I kind of froze up when it came to the writing. It really surprised me when it happened because every preconceived notion I had about ‘how you should write’ said that the words would just flow from me after I’d planned it all out. I now know why that wasn’t the case.
Apparently I’m a discovery writer.
I have written before about my friends challenge that I write 200 words a day, minimum. I have been doing this with increasing consistency and I have reached the point where I am comfortable enough in the practice that it can bleed across into my website.
Every week, on a Monday, I’ll post here and show you a collection of my random musings and little snippets from the stories I am either working on or write just to get the ideas down on paper for a later date.
Today I will include some snippets from both recent and more distant 200 words for your amusement.
