I hope everyone had a good holiday. I read over last year’s resolutions and realized a few things. I’ve drastically changed since then. I have completely new ideas and feeling about almost everything, even writing. In other words I’ve grown.
I’m not going to post my resolutions this year, what I’m going to do is post about my journey through them. Every change, disappointment, realization, expectation and success, and what happen to cause me to change.
Since this blog is a journal about my writing journey, my first post this new year, and yes I’m starting a little early is about my decision to start using a writing book called The Weekend Novelist by Robert J. Ray and Bret Norris.
Now I just have to decide on which project to work on. I have one manuscript I started last year when I did the NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, in November of 2010. I didn’t participate this year, 2011. I started the revisions but had many questions. Lets just say the revisions didn’t go well. I was not satisfied at all with the manuscript or the revisions and felt a complete failure as a writer. So I started purchasing and reading how to writing book. I learned a lot, just not how to write a novel.
One of the books I bought was about plot and structure. This is what I thought was lacking in my manuscript. So I started a new project based on the info in the book. The ideas were flowing and it was going good until I ran into a wall. Which is what happens to most novice writers.
How do I proceed? It was frustrating. I was in my bedroom sitting on my bed, almost ready to cry. Looking around my room and that’s when it happened. Right next to the bed is a small bookshelf where I keep the how to write books. It was like a light shinning from heaven shown right on a book. The Weekend Novelist, by Robert J. Ray and Bret Norris. There it was, the answer I was looking for.
My newest decision. Go through the book one weekend at a time and apply what I learn to my newest project. It’s in the idea stage, so that’s perfect.
I might be incorporating more but it depends on how much time I have writing.
What new resolutions have you decided to do this year.
I’m not going to post my resolutions this year, what I’m going to do is post about my journey through them. Every change, disappointment, realization, expectation and success, and what happen to cause me to change.
Since this blog is a journal about my writing journey, my first post this new year, and yes I’m starting a little early is about my decision to start using a writing book called The Weekend Novelist by Robert J. Ray and Bret Norris.
Now I just have to decide on which project to work on. I have one manuscript I started last year when I did the NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, in November of 2010. I didn’t participate this year, 2011. I started the revisions but had many questions. Lets just say the revisions didn’t go well. I was not satisfied at all with the manuscript or the revisions and felt a complete failure as a writer. So I started purchasing and reading how to writing book. I learned a lot, just not how to write a novel.
One of the books I bought was about plot and structure. This is what I thought was lacking in my manuscript. So I started a new project based on the info in the book. The ideas were flowing and it was going good until I ran into a wall. Which is what happens to most novice writers.
How do I proceed? It was frustrating. I was in my bedroom sitting on my bed, almost ready to cry. Looking around my room and that’s when it happened. Right next to the bed is a small bookshelf where I keep the how to write books. It was like a light shinning from heaven shown right on a book. The Weekend Novelist, by Robert J. Ray and Bret Norris. There it was, the answer I was looking for.
My newest decision. Go through the book one weekend at a time and apply what I learn to my newest project. It’s in the idea stage, so that’s perfect.
I might be incorporating more but it depends on how much time I have writing.
What new resolutions have you decided to do this year.
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