![]() ![]() ★★★★ 1/2! Bruton Street Bookstore series, book 2 of 4. There's as much pleasure today in listening to my characters talk while I type as fast as I can, as there was the first time I put dialogue to paper-in long-hand, then, in my leather bound sketch-book. So while my technical skills have hopefully improved, what hasn't changed is my great joy in writing. Point of View for you non-writers}.Īlthough, I still don't fully comprehend why it matters if you switch POV and I cavalierly disregard it as much as possible. ![]() I've since learned how to do, he said, she said, and a great variety of other adverb heavy, sometimes lengthy explanations of why my characters are saying what they're saying, along with finally coming to an understanding of what things like POV means. ![]() ![]() "If you think you're so smart," he replied, with one eye still on the TV, "why don't you write a book?" Turning to him, I sort of petulantly said, "How the hell did this book get published?" My husband was lying beside me in bed, watching TV. Long ago, as they say, in another time, when fast food hadn't reached our area and the only shopping was what the feed mill offered, I was reading a book that annoyed me. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As I’m writing, new people and places associated with them or plot points appear out of nowhere, like the student librarian and ‘geekgirl’ in yesterday’s scene. I’ve pretty much always done this, but in this case, it’s critical. ![]() Keep a list of characters, places and cars ![]() Sometimes I’ll bold the words to pop out for my attention when I go back to it later. In a separate document called a Chapter Diary, each time I start a new chapter or a new scene, I record the main action in the scene, the characters involved, bits of relevant location, and any questions that arise. It’s saved me trying to find the right place in a rather long manuscript and will also serve to help any restructuring I’ll need to do later. This has been a big twitter hit, having been retweeted lots of times. I’ve also learned some new tricks to “keep” in mind. Amazing! But my average has been around 2000/day, which has put me about five days ahead of the target schedule. 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