Reflections on NaNoWriMo Host: Lisa Bouchard . We spend 30 days (and nights!) living and breathing our novels without a moment’s time to think beyond our word count. Let’s take some time to look at the larger lessons NaNoWriMo has taught us. Whether you wrote 50 words or 50,000, NaNoWriMo has taught you something – come chat about it! WHEN:    Dec 5, 2012 9:00 PM EST – Dec 5, 2012 10:00 PM EST COST:    FREE for ALL PREMIUM Members! $0 for Basic Members REGISTRATION:      Click Here to Register (Members will not receive member rate unless logged in.) INSTRUCTOR:    Lisa Bouchard has participated in 11 of the last 12 NaNoWriMos. She’s won some and she’s lost [...]

Plotting a novel using Dan Wells’ 7 Point System

Plotting a novel with the Five Movement Structure

  Back in the depths of time, 2001, imagine me, a young mother with three children under six, wondering if I could write a novel.  Did I really have 50,000 words in me? And if I did, could I get them all out in November?  I’d heard stories of people taking 10 years to write their novel – ten long, painful, soul-stripping years. Who was I to think I could write a novel in thirty measly days? Given my circumstances, I was a little frazzled and full of self-doubt but I didn’t want to give up this idea that made me wake up early with character sketches and kept me up late at night, thinking about plots. So I did [...]

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