Well, to make good on my goals for 2010, it's time for me to get butt in chair and work on using the Snowflake Method to help me work the kinks out of several stories in the Belkher Chronicles line-up. I decided to start with Papacita, since it is the most nearly complete story of the series.
I don't like my one-sentence summary at this point, but it sounds better than the other one I came up with today. Here they both are:
The current one: The murder of a grandpa gone a-courting sends familial threads unraveling through three generations.
The one I came up with today: A boy's loss is no-one's gain when the man kills his grandfather over his father's death.
The second one better fits what happens in the story, but I guess I'll have to work on the story itself and let the summary cogitate from there.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Friday, January 01, 2010
Ah, 2010 - A New Year Begins Again
And of course most of us tend to make resolutions at this time of year. Here are mine, couched as goals rather than resolutions...
Use the Snowflake Method on any new stories I embark upon (am already doing this...)
Use the Snowflake Method on existing stories to help see where the gaps are
Enter contests - starting with The First Line, a quarterly contest that costs nothing to enter
Join the California Writers' Club (CWC)
Attend at least two writers' conferences - NCPA (Northern California Publishers and Authors) in April and the Redwood Writers (a branch of CWC) in October. Did both last year and gained a lot of knowledge and ideas!
Edit and submit two short stories written in the last year
Branch out into poetry
Participate in NaNoWriMo again
Since I now have two grandbabies, and I believe Kipling's Just So Stories are public domain, put together a book of these as told by me with photos to go along with the stories (and exercise my other artistic bent) - perhaps even create a video to go with them!
Create a book trailer for Theft by Character to put on YouTube
Purchase some ISBNs so I can self-publish (beyond the short story I have on lulu.com)
Sort out previous writings - grist for the mill or for refinement
And then, at the end of 2010, look over this list and see what I really accomplished!
(BTW, I already have my first submission written for The First Line contest...I' m letting it rest until the end of the month before I give it the final looksee/tweaks and send it in - submissions are due by 1 Feb 10 for the first quarter)
AND - Yes I do tend to dream big!!!
Use the Snowflake Method on any new stories I embark upon (am already doing this...)
Use the Snowflake Method on existing stories to help see where the gaps are
Enter contests - starting with The First Line, a quarterly contest that costs nothing to enter
Join the California Writers' Club (CWC)
Attend at least two writers' conferences - NCPA (Northern California Publishers and Authors) in April and the Redwood Writers (a branch of CWC) in October. Did both last year and gained a lot of knowledge and ideas!
Edit and submit two short stories written in the last year
Branch out into poetry
Participate in NaNoWriMo again
Since I now have two grandbabies, and I believe Kipling's Just So Stories are public domain, put together a book of these as told by me with photos to go along with the stories (and exercise my other artistic bent) - perhaps even create a video to go with them!
Create a book trailer for Theft by Character to put on YouTube
Purchase some ISBNs so I can self-publish (beyond the short story I have on lulu.com)
Sort out previous writings - grist for the mill or for refinement
And then, at the end of 2010, look over this list and see what I really accomplished!
(BTW, I already have my first submission written for The First Line contest...I' m letting it rest until the end of the month before I give it the final looksee/tweaks and send it in - submissions are due by 1 Feb 10 for the first quarter)
AND - Yes I do tend to dream big!!!
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