I know. This is supposed to a be a ‘daily blog’, but it has been anything but, even from the beginning. I should really re-title my posts.
So what have I been doing?
Well, for one thing I have been undertaking an on-line course for writers, ‘The Story Cartel course’. This invaluable course talks you through how to build a platform, engage with your readers and share your story. It takes you through simple practical steps whilst enabling you to interact with both the founder himself (Joe Bunting) and other course members – budding writers from all over the world with varying levels of writing and publishing experience (from never having shared a story with anyone, to experiences in both the self-publishing and traditional publishing worlds).
The course can be found here:
http://course.storycartel.com/
Of course I can’t even BEGIN to ‘engage with my readers’ if I don;t have anything for them to read, and this is my current agony. What WILL they want to read? I have such a great idea for a story (well, I think it’s great) but I have started it three different ways so far and I STILL can’t decide the best way to approach it. My characters have changed from teenagers to adults and back again, and one of them has changed genders twice! Part of me thinks I should maybe just move on to the next chapter, KEEP WRITING and somehow it will sort itself out.
Hopefully.
Good luck with your course! 🙂 Beth
Thank you!
Monthly blogger. Kids only take 29 days out of a month of work. No wonder I hate February…
Keep writing and stop doubting yourself.
Identify road blocks. I’ve been dreading turning 3 of my chapters into Dialog Chapters. My story contains a story in a story and I’ve decided it would sound best if I all of the story in a story were narrator by my dwarven character. Unfortunately, that means limitations on HOW I can say things.
I found my road block the other day. I was afraid to scrap beautiful prose for simplistic dialog. I found a resolution f— simple. I hit up an online etymology site for origins of words and changed my words accordingly, made up stuff, threw in apostrophes to put a spin on newer words. It came out AMAZING and, most importantly, I had fun doing it. Now, I want to keep doing it. I don’t care that it is slow either, it will probably take me the better part of two weeks to do it for three chapters!
And I’ve got probably at least 9 more to write in dialog!
Which brings up the last point. HAVE FUN!