Today is Insecure Writers Support Group Day, or affectionately known as IWSG for short. I haven’t taken part since December last year (WOW! Has it really been that long?).
If you don’t know what it is check out the link, but basically its one day every month where writers get to whinge and moan, give in to self pity, and share their insecurities with the world. As a member its then your job to visit other participants and offer hugs, support and encouragement.
My writing group have decided to do sessions with Blake Snyder’s Save The Cat book. Yes, i know its for screenwriters, but…there does seem to be some merit in applying Snyder’s rules to other forms of writing. The aim? To hopefully improve our novels, so I’ve decided to start work on a new one for the exercise.
Our first session was to come up with a “Logline” and a title for our piece. Ok, well most of my fellow writers already had stories, and titles. Me? I just had an idea in my head. But, by the end of our first session that idea was more formed and i had a better understanding of what my story is about.
I haven’t done a blurb, a synopsis or a plan. I don’t even know the main characters name…yet…but I’m determined that my Nano novel this year will be planned. I’m so fed up with being a pantster and tying myself up in knots. So I’m hoping that these sessions will get me well on the way to being more organised.
Snyder says you should be able to sum up your story in one or two sentences. If you ask yourself the question “What is it?”
So here is my title and the Logline of the novel i’ll be working on from now on…
A woman’s search for recovery after a stressful divorce turns into a nightmare, as she battles against the late owner of her new home.
Ok, that just about sums it up…but…I’m not happy with the word nightmare. I dunno, is it just me? Does that word work? Does it make you think ghost story? Does it make you think she’ll just have a bad time or do you think the story will actually involve nightmares?
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts 🙂 The next session is genre *shudders* lol
The lovely people over at the A-Z Challenge have kindly given us guidance questions to use in our reflections post.
Those questions are:
Trying to prepare myself for the A-Z Challenge which begins tomorrow *gulp* i dug this out of one of my notebooks…
Prompted by LouAnn at On The Homefront And Beyond (many months ago!) I decided to do an A-Z poem on how I see myself. Ok, it was a bit ambitious, I couldn’t come up with any words that I could describe myself with that started with X or Z so i used those in the title. Fun challenge LouAnn 🙂
…is exactly what my dad always says 🙂
So Hi…how are you?…what have you all been up to? Me? Cooking, baking, tidying, walking Alb, laundry, faffing, reading, playing The Sims (LOVE that game!) and NOT writing *sighs*
Today is IWSG Day, the last of 2013 and the only month I missed was November 😦
So what am I insecure about this month?…
Well, if it just happens to have escaped your notice, NaNoWriMo 2013 starts this Friday!
Again this year I’ll be ML’ing and attempting to take part…
But firstly, some apologies, and an announcement…
I recently came across Walmart’s Guide to Buying a Notebook. What? There’s a guide to buying a notebook? I thought most of us just saw one we fancied and bought it lol
Have a read, it’s quite interesting 🙂
You’ve seen my filled in notebooks many times, so I thought I would take this opportunity to show you my notebook stash…
The View Outside 