Tuesdays with Story
March 6, 2020
The first word . . .
Skip a day or more between writing sessions and your mind will drift away from the deep moments of your story. You’ll have to slog back to the place abandoned if you had written every day. (a note that has been on my wall for so long I forgot who it came from)
They met at Barnes & Noble . . .which they won’t do again for a while because of Covid-19.
A full table of authors commented on style, word choices, and moments in history. Much aid and opinion offered to the well being of all projects.
— Meg Williams (???) . . . A LOT of old noir crime feel going on with the first chapter and I need to get away from that
– A lot of character action logistics need a LOT of work.
– Instead of killing characters, I need to kill all of the adverbs used in the narrative portions
– A surprise plot twist involving human trafficking instead of a typical drug bust.
– Conclusion: First Chapter needs to be rewritten and resubmitted for critique. There’s definitely some bad writing habits that I really need to break. So I’m going to take a page out of Taylor Swift’s book and Shake It Off and Write On 🙂 (more…)
