writing a book update
Hi Everyone!
I recently announced that I am writing a book so I thought I'd give you all an update on how I'm doing and how I'm doing what I'm doing...
Anyways, I went through several ways of starting my book and read articles and videos about how folks go about doing this.
I tried the outlining thing and the flashcard organizing method but it wasn't panning out for me as far as allowing my creative process.
I settled on the 'writing in the dark method' method, coined by author David Grossman which is essentially just writing as you go along, but with some outlining to keep you on track as needed.
Also, I researched how many words are in the average book and I kept coming up with 60,000
so I made that my goal and within the 4 month period,
I plan to produce my manuscript, it came out to be between 500-600 words a day that I need to write in order to meet my goal. It's fairly simple, but I think the word quota matched with the writing in the dark method really gave me the juice to start producing this book.
So, I bet you're wondering what this book will be about, aren't you?
Well.. the genre is romance fantasy (read:Twilight) and my audience is New Adult (think college age)
The book is set in another dimension, and the main character's name is Brittney...
Still working on it, but stay tuned and maybe I'll provide an excerpt:)
Sincerely,
Contis - in the present moment
I recently announced that I am writing a book so I thought I'd give you all an update on how I'm doing and how I'm doing what I'm doing...
Anyways, I went through several ways of starting my book and read articles and videos about how folks go about doing this.
I tried the outlining thing and the flashcard organizing method but it wasn't panning out for me as far as allowing my creative process.
I settled on the 'writing in the dark method' method, coined by author David Grossman which is essentially just writing as you go along, but with some outlining to keep you on track as needed.
Also, I researched how many words are in the average book and I kept coming up with 60,000
so I made that my goal and within the 4 month period,
I plan to produce my manuscript, it came out to be between 500-600 words a day that I need to write in order to meet my goal. It's fairly simple, but I think the word quota matched with the writing in the dark method really gave me the juice to start producing this book.
So, I bet you're wondering what this book will be about, aren't you?
Well.. the genre is romance fantasy (read:Twilight) and my audience is New Adult (think college age)
The book is set in another dimension, and the main character's name is Brittney...
Still working on it, but stay tuned and maybe I'll provide an excerpt:)
Sincerely,
Contis - in the present moment
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