Follow Me On Social Media
- Follow Beyond the Precipice on WordPress.com
A to Z Challenge
Blog Categories
Archives
Interviews/Q&A/Guest Posts
- Author/Artist/Musician Interviews Read About These Fascinating People!
NOW AVAILABLE
BUY BEYOND THE PRECIPICE
“I grieved for Bret as he experienced the struggles and challenges in his life”
Like Character Novels?
NOW AVAILABLE
Want a super-intelligent brain?
- How Fiction Makes Our Brains Better
- Your Brain on Music What Music Does for Your Brain and Health, and Other Compiled Links
View the World Through the Lens of a Writer
Festival City of Canada: YEG
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
SEAL OF EXCELLENCE – Top 100 Certified Writers
Blog Stats
- 21,011 hits
Tag Archives: writing process
Writing Pain in Fiction
Originally posted on A Writer's Path:
? by Allison Maruska Confession: I’m writing this post as a form of procrastination and it may be a bit wandering, but I think we’ll end at a coherent place. I’m supposed to…
Aerial View of a Draft
Snippets of an Author’s Life: Post 5 If you’re the kind of author who initially overwrites, fear not. Drafts are discovery. The process even has its own genre, either adventure or mystery. Once you have ideas out of your head … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Series: Snippets of an Author's Life, Writing
Tagged adventure, first draft, manuscript, map, mystery, overwriting, plot, plot structure, rough draft, writing process, writing tips
1 Comment
First You Have to Write Many, Many Words
Snippets of an Author’s Life: Post 4 In May of this year, Copyblogger released an article entitled One Skill that Will Take Your Writing from Good to Great. The key message taken away from the described writing course was “Not … Continue reading
What is Your Everest?
Snippets of an Author’s Life: Post 3 Against the current As many of Alberta’s residents enjoyed their heyday over the last 10-15 years before the economic crash, I struggled through one of the most difficult periods of my life. At … Continue reading
Reverse Psychology: The Threat of Housework to Kick-Start a Muse with Attitude
Snippets of an Author’s Life: Post 2 It’s insane. I wrote two full blog article drafts and half of a third for two different series in an hour (a record, to be sure) when I should have been somewhere else … Continue reading
Time to Kick Some Butt — Mine
Snippets of an Author’s Life: Post 1 It’s July, so the starting date has arrived. There’s no more room for excuses. I’ve been preparing for months for this moment. It’s time to face the hardest writing job I’ve had to … Continue reading
Summer Direction for This Blog
I have had this idea for a while, but this summer I will be putting it into practice. I need to finish some book projects, and writing about my processes, discoveries, and daily efforts along the way will help to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Series: Snippets of an Author's Life, Writing
Tagged literature, writing, writing a novel, writing blog, writing process
1 Comment
Dystopian Fiction: A View on This Popular Genre
It is written that utopia is boring to readers, that we are not wired to read about no conflict (how about goals?), and that a perfect world is so unachievable there is no point in writing about it. True, but … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged conflict, dystopian fiction, dystopian society, fantasy, future of mankind, hope, Lois Lowry, plot, science-fiction, Star Trek, utopia, writing process
Leave a comment