Archive for October, 2007
Good Luck NaNo Participants
I’ll be cheering from the sidelines this year, as last year I learned that word count (somewhat counter-intuitively) doesn’t necessarily equate with story progress. That and I’m knee deep in trying to finish previous years NaNo endeavors.
Good luck to those of you taking the plunge with National Novel Writing Month tomorrow. Perhaps in a year or two’s time, we’ll all need a National Novel Finishing Month.
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Scene Workflow vs. Sequence Goals
Scenes make the best workflow. A scene is about the furthest you can break down your story into manageable bits in order to accomplish your goals. Lately though, I’ve been a little bit down on my process. The problem is even if you finish a scene it’s only 1/60th of your story. I don’t know about you, but I like better feedback than that. Completing 1/60th of my story isn’t satisfying to me. If you do a scene every day it still takes you sixty days, or two months. That’s not counting revisions.
And if you’re anything like me, you’ll cheat sometimes and skip a few days, or sometimes even a week if you’re busy with real life, work, etc. I have to remind myself sometimes that this is just a hobby. I don’t get to work on this for forty hours a week. If I did, progress would be much quicker.
So how can we keep the story broken down into manageable workflow in the form of scenes while still feeling good about the progress we make?
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Snubbing The Concept of Job Competition?
So the Hollywood writers’ strike looks like it’s about to happen. I’ve got no problem with writers getting a bigger slice of what they deserve. However, I’ve also got to wonder… is Hollywood too P.C. to just hire up a bunch of aspiring writers on the cheap?
I’m sure I know more than a few writers who’d love a crack at a hit TV show. And they wouldn’t demand top dollar to do it. What does a strike mean for those writers struggling to land a gig and make ends meet, while the big boys and girls are asking for a bump on their six plus digits?
I hope this gets resolved quickly… nobody wants a halt in their favorite TV show.
P.S. It’s ok, you can call me a SCAB.
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