Notebooks

I literally just noticed Miss Juliet Horror's comment on my post.  Honestly.  No one ever comments so it caught me off guard.

In case you are periodically checking back, Juliet Horror, here is a post about notebooks.

I have about fifty of the things; lined up according to height on two shelves in my bedroom.  Most of them are empty.  Some of them are full.  The rest have about three sentences to a page in them and are then abandoned.  I adore notebooks so much that I have trouble writing in them; this is because my friends give me tons of notebooks for my birthday, notebooks that are simply too gorgeous to write in.

However, I have just acquainted myself with the novel idea of a scrapbook for my stories.

I have a large spiral notebook that I decoupaged myself with things that I found laying around my house.  It is this notebook that holds pictures, ideas, newspaper clippings, and story snippets.  I find that it is the best supplement to my writing and would highly recommend it to anyone out there who is having trouble either keeping track of things like which color a character's eyes are or needs a good place to write down ideas that don't necessarily present themselves in chronological order.

TTFN

M.K. Wissler

Soundtracks

Whenever I write, I see what I'm writing like a movie.

Not only that, but I cast my stories like movies and I make playlists on my iPod for the soundtracks.  Call me crazy, but it makes me feel like I'm rounding out my stories a little better.

For the Alex story, I have a 162 song playlist for writing and a 16 song playlist for what I really think fits the plot.

I used to be worse.  I used to make playlists for each character, and then it was each chapter, and then I just gave up and made it for the whole book.  If I feel like not being lazy, I might post the 16 song list, but no one would really care.

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M.K Wissler

Novel Intensive

Recently, I did a novel intensive class with the lovely Katherine Grace Bond.

It might have been the best thing I ever did for Alex.

Period.

I learned how to structure the plot better, and how to convey more emotion (which I seem to have trouble doing) and I got critiques from the other students.

I need to find myself a critique group...

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M.K. Wissler