My Novel’s Main Squeeze Name: Len (no last name) Age: Len was 23 when she was married and still looks that age. She is undead and effectively immortal and honestly doesn’t know how old she is anymore. Place of Birth: Does it matter anymore? It’s gone. Fine. Lothersburg. Father Lother had been travelling a long …
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I don’t know what we’re yelling about. In round four of the Snowflake outlining method, I’m to expand every sentence of my one-paragraph (make that two paragraph) novel summary into a paragraph of its own. By my count that was 10 separate paragraphs. In part 1 of this round, I wrote six paragraphs, which means …
Or how we dig into the meat and potatoes. So in this round, I’m supposed to take EVERY sentence in the one-paragraph summary of the novel’s plot and write a new paragraph for EACH of them. And I wrote a two-paragraph summary in the first place. So I’ve got something like 10 new paragraphs to …
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The Shopkeeper’s Wife only has four main characters (but a ton of side and minor characters), and so after this bio write-up, I can move onto the 4th actual stage of the Snowflake outlining method which is… (looks it up)… yikes. I’m supposed to take the one-paragraph summary of my novel and expand every sentence …
For our third main character, we focus on Nemo, Prince of Slumberland! Maybe you remember, but, well, likely not, but there was a very anime-esque, almost studio-Ghibli-esque animated movie released back in the early 90s (in fact, Hayao Miyazaki passed on directing it due to a lack of artistic freedom) called Little Nemo Adventures in …
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This one’s for Ziegander! My twitter handle. My online handle all across the web for many years. Ziegander was a character in a “fantasy epic” I started writing when I was like 16. It wasn’t good. It revolved around swords imbued with *absolute* elemental powers over, you guessed it, Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water. And …
Fight! Ahem, ok, this is a pretty intensely involved round. I am to distinguish the main characters of the book and create a one-page sort of bio for each of them. I am compiling a dossier of main characters, if you will. So, first comes identifying the main characters from the rest of the “chaff.” …
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I plan to hit the ground running with my first ever novel, and my first novel set in the Waybetween! To that end, I will be needing to do some planning and do some outlining, and I’ve already begun using the Snowflake method. What’s the Snowflake method? I am glad you asked. So, the method …
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Well, since I’ve gotten the general descriptions for all of the major Dhogem territories in The Deeps, next up in that vein would be the minor territories, and then some zoomed in looks at specifics within the territories. However, before we get into all that, I want to give some background information on one of …
Yeah, yeah , hello. My name’s Ziegander. So, you’ve been tangled in her webs too, have you? Well, where are you headed, then? You like swords and magic? Or is it fear that drives you? Barren moons and ray guns, maybe? Or… perhaps you’ve come to walk the Dark… I could show you how, you …
The Waybetween 