I will be speaking at the Tyler Public Library’s Writer’s Club at noon on July 15, 2020. My topic will be “How to Write More Productively.” Hope you will join us! {link}
Category: What I Love
My dad came up to spend the July 4th weekend with us. He arrived Friday and we thought he was going home on Sunday, but he extended it to Monday to make some much needed repair calls for his house up here and now he’s extended it one more day to meet the termite people in person. All of which to say that I haven’t gotten any writing done since last Thursday.
So today, I’ve got some time and my brain says “nope.” I am not letting that deter me. For my birthday in April, I got several of those books in the writing thesaurus series and I have not managed to look at a single one until this morning. So I looked up my notes about the scene I was supposed to be writing – “Edward & Minerva talk in hotel room after meeting Sharon. E’s POV, also show how he is more like Stephen/Walt in tenderness towards wife, but how that is a magically manipulated response.”
So then I looked up these key words: “adoration” “apprehension” (both from the “Emotion Thesaurus“) “hotel room” (from the Urban Settings Thesaurus) “manipulative” (from the “Negative Trait Thesaurus“
Then I made notes about each key words and dumped those into my scene document et voila! Half the scene is already done. The part I consider the hard part, usually. Now to add dialogue.
Was it quick? Not really. But it’s a scene started rather than the two sentence outline I previously had. 🙂
I spoke today at the Tyler Public Library’s Writer’s Club on “Building a Sustainable Writing Career Through Managing Your Creative Assets.” I know, a ridiculously long title, but when I was pulling it all together, that’s what worked for my brain. I felt like I had a lot of ground to cover quickly, but it went all right once Facebook stopped putting pop-ups in my way. If you are a member of the group, you can see the replay of the live video here: {link}
I am once again speaking at the Tyler Public Library’s Writer’s Club Facebook Group on June 24, 2020 at noon. My topic is “Building a Sustainable Career Through Managing Your Creative Assets.”
I spoke today at the Tyler Public Library’s Writing Club Facebook Group on “Character Creation.” I shared all my favorite character worksheets from various places and it went really well! If you are a member of the group, you can see the replay of the live video here: {link}
I am going to be speaking at the Tyler Public Library’s Writer’s Club Facebook Group at noon on June 3, 2020. My topic will be “Character Creation.” If you’d like to hear me speak, you can find us online at: {link}
I spoke today at the Tyler Public Library Writer’s Club Facebook Group on “Writing Memoirs.” It went pretty well, despite my sinus infection and foster kitten shenanigans. If you are a member of the group, you can see the replay of the live video here: {link}
I will be speaking at the Tyler Public Library’s Writing Club Facebook Group on May 20, 2020 at noon. My topic will be “Writing Memoirs.”
I spoke today at the Tyler Public Library’s Writer’s Club Facebook Group on “How to Craft a Scene.” I think it went fairly well! I even made a handout for this one, like I did when I taught on the Snowflake Method earlier this year (in person). If you are a member of the group, you can see the replay of the live video here: {link}
So it’s not morning. Morning was good. Full of Animal Crossing and kids and happy, human goodness. David came over and we sat on the back patio and chatted online with Steph. We visited each others islands in Animal Crossing and made stuff for each other. We sat around and watched Community, I cleaned the kitchen, we ate some Shells and Cheese. A good day so far.
So now I’m at the computer and looking at my planner to see what I scheduled to write for today. Only I scheduled everything except for the writing. Oops. So here I am planning my writing in my non-morning Morning Pages.
Today: Finish critique for TCG
Tomorrow: Caro’s Quest writing – whatever the next scene needs to be
Wednesday: Getting class stuff together and writing ahead for that.
Thursday: Start work on Chapter 2 Magical PTA
Friday: Finish up work on Magical PTA for LCG submission
Saturday: Start work on The Dreaming end of Ch 5 or beginning of Ch 6
What else? I don’t even know.
Lisa Holcomb 