Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. I spent Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. and April revising. In May it went to critique partners and then my agent. Each week I share writing tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.
Amy Fellner Dominy, Award-Winning Author of Tween/Teen Novels
Amy Fellner Dominy, Award-Winning Author of Tween/Teen Novels
Weekly Journal as one Author (Attempts) to Write a New Novel
May 3, 2013 by 2 Comments
Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. Now it’s time to revise and rework. I’ll share my tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.
Week 28 Recap
Goal: Be Patient
Progress: Not much
Hi All! Happy Friday and welcome to the Blog of Frustration. Yeah, I’m in a funk today, so be warned: Crabbiness to follow.
It’s all the WAITING that does it to me.
Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Write a New YA Novel
April 19, 2013 by 1 Comment
Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. Now it’s time to revise and rework. I’ll share my tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.
Week 26 Recap
Goal: Polish up manuscript…send it off to critique partners
Progress: Done and…almost done
This week, I’m still enjoying the knowledge that the book is done. I’ve been doing some polishing work and correcting the timeline, but it’s about to go out for critique. I’ll keep you all posted on the notes I hear back.
Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Write a New Novel
April 12, 2013 by 1 Comment
Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. Now it’s time to revise and rework. I’ll share my tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.
Week 25 Recap
Goal: Finish FIFTH Complete Revision
Progress: DONE!!
If you’ve been following along with me, you know it’s been months of work to get to this point. It took not one, not two, not three, not four but FIVE times through this book to figure out the story I wanted to tell.
Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Write a New Novel
April 5, 2013 by 2 Comments
Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. Now it’s time to revise and rework. I’ll share my tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.
Week 24 Recap
Goal: Continue Rewrites –finish by next Friday or run naked through the streets.
Progress: 15,000 words to go
It’s been a good writing week with my WIP and Mitch and Lauren. (So nice to be able to say that!) Part of what has motivated me is I got back a critique on the first 25,000 words. My critique friend LOVED IT and YES, IT’S WORKING!
Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Write a New Novel
March 22, 2013 by 2 Comments
Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. Now it’s time to revise and rework. I’ll share my tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.
Week 22 Recap
Goal: Continue Rewrites (Fourth Time Through!)
Progress: Halfway through!
This is not how I planned things.
I was going to start this book during NaNo, write a messy draft, and then go through it again and have a really solid draft 2 to send off to my critique partners. That was going to happen at the end of January.
Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Write a New Novel
March 8, 2013 by 2 Comments
Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. Now it’s time to revise and rework. I’ll share my tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.
Week 20 Recap
Goal: Continue Rewrites to get it in shape for my critique partners
Progress: On my FOURTH read-through and STILL only 3/4 of the way done.
Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Write a New Novel
March 1, 2013 by 2 Comments
Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. Now it’s time to revise and rework. I’ll share my tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.
Week 19 Recap
Goal: Continue Rewrites (Third time through is the charm?)
Progress: Nearly Finished!
This week I had some major help on my book. It came from an expert—but not a writing expert. It reminded me that sometimes we can all use a little help in crafting our stories, developing our plots and adding some real world flavor to our stories.
Weekly Journal as One Author (Attempts) to Write a New Novel
February 22, 2013 by 2 Comments
Join me each Friday as I continue to journal about the process of writing a new book. During November and NaNoWriMo I wrote the first draft. Now it’s time to revise and rework. I’ll share my tips and the process I go through on the way (hopefully!) to making a sale.
Week 18 Recap
Goal: Continue Rewrites (Third time through is the charm?)
Progress: 40,000 words down, about 10,000 to go
You know what would really come in handy during this writing/rewriting proecess?
