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How to write a Damn Good Thriller (Status: Reading)
Creating Characters (Status: TBR)
Creating Characters: How to Build Story People (Status: TBR)
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Archive for January, 2010
I had a small epiphany last weekend.
I was speaking with one of my oldest friends and picking her brain about recording studios. My current MS has to do with music – and I know next to nothing about the logistics of professional music recording. My friend is in the business and being a writer herself (she writes lyrics), we speak the same language… sort off.
Now – my MS had stalled. It had been stalled for a while. But when speaking with my friend – about the music studio, about my hero and his personality and how he hates the “mechanization” of music, I suddenly realized my hero breathed. He freaking breathed – and all I had to do was see things from the angle of his environment.
I have all these buzz words on paper -but I don’t think they’d matter all this much because in light of researching the background, I stumbled onto the thing that motivates him: music, raw music. Or as my friend had put it – the spontaneity of live performance. (She’s brilliant, what can I say.)
Of course this led me to add about twenty titles to my Netflix que – my other favored method of doing research. But I figured out that it really does matter to have someone in the know to bounce ideas off.
So what is your favored method of doing research? How do you go about it and what tips can you share with us?
With the new year, it seems to be a good time to set goals and then attempt to adhere to them.
I found that a lot of people whom I asked about New Year Resolutions said how they don’t make resolutions anymore… So instead of resolutions (seriously – how long CAN one keep from eating chocholate) I figure “goal” is a better word.
Here are my professional Goals for 2010. Maybe by writing them out and blasting them to the world will make me adhere to them:)
1. Read More. I got a ton of writing books and online workshops that I really should get through. Maybe I should append this goal and say no more buying writing books until I’ve gone through the ones I have already:)
2. Write More Steadily. I spent 2009 writing like a maniac April through August and then getting burned out and not writing anything for a couple of months. (Cold Victory was 4k a day! Yikes!) So I’m lowering my daily word count to 1.5K a day with the expectation that I’ll move from story to story smoother and won’t have large gaps of time in between.
3. Write longer. Have I mentioned I have the Generation Y attention span? I want things NOW. This spills into my work as well – I tend to write short because I end up fizzling on a story.
My goal for 2010 is to be able to steadily write longer and longer stories, building up to a “full print length” of 90k.
4. Plot standing up. I need to figure out how to plot while walking. (Kinda a writing goal, no?) Any recommendations for plotting/walking music??
What are your goals for 2010??
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