The Adventure of Writing my First Novel & Short Stories Progress Trhead.

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[Mattie]

I did finish the conflict book. My impression is from all my previous work with my degree and experience, it may be quite easy and natural to bring this conflict out in characters, but may just be applying and practicing the techniques and suggestions that are listed.

I am reading, Writing a Killer Thriller, right now and seems to bring out the Mental Toughness and Adversity stuff, so again may be quite in my favor to bring out that psychological dynamic in my writing. I am on chapter 6 right now.

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Thank you for the article. This is very true. I usually do just write quantity with poetry. I just have to do with short-stories now. That is the best way for me to learn to just let it all come out at a fast pace.

Fortunately, as the Editor from Michigan pointed out, I tend write too fast paced for readers. Which is slowing down the pace. Then of course, I need to slow down a bit and pay attention to what these books are pointing out and make sense of the structure, plot, etc.

Otherwise, I tend to ramble on with stuff that needs to be cut out from what I can already tell you from reading these books. What I'm meant to be focusing on with the writing. I am very descriptive in writing and describe everything that just isn't always important to the reader.

6 minute fiction. I thought, I would try it since back in 2013, I had a friend that was a professor and encouraged me to try out. He's passed away since then, but his goal was for me to learn to write literary fiction. It's different to write that way. Since you said take action. Here you go.

Grandfather Sanders is a pharmacist in the local community. Luck is not the question. He inherited the store from his father, Jared. Born into the family, it was just natural to take over the family small business back in the day.

Five of his buddies sit at the ice cream bar every afternoon for a cheeseburger, fries, and soda. He was 26 years old when he inherited the store. There is one photograph of him and his father on the wall. They stand shoulder to shoulder eating and ice cream cone. Both are fixed in their pin stripe suits and ties, dark hair, and light eyes, tall, and handsome. This was his 26th birthday. The customers today often ask if their twin brothers. I remind them they are father and son.

The morning my great grandfather met my grandfather was the day he was born out the back door. He always laughed he was a true medicine man since he was born in the back of the pharmacy. His latest delivery. Grandfather Sanders came so fast my grandmother never had a chance to get inside and up the stairs to the second-floor apartment. Born right in the dirt and dust. Grandmother Jenelle was so furious.

Grandfather Sanders was wrapped up in a towel and soon was rushed to the neighbors for safe keeping with Mrs. Jensen.

Curly red locks, the Irish curls stick to Mrs. Jensen’s forehead, pinned back to the side, she carried Grandfather Sanders around town as if he was her own boy. Stern to the bone, Mrs. Jensen seemed determined to make sure he never had one bit of ice cream all the days of his life while she was in charge. Never would he be influenced by his father’s sweet tooth.

“Here’s a jar of your teeth.” Mrs. Jensen used to say. My Grandfather Sanders believed if he ate the ice cream, he would lose his teeth. “You don’t want to wear dentures like your father, do you? Your Grandmother Jenelle, already thinks you’re a mess.”

Grandmother Jenelle thought my Grandfather Sanders was her biggest mistake. The local newspaper wrote about the incident in the gossip column. The latest celebrity of the day, my Grandmother Jenelle, did not want anything do with my Grandfather Sanders ever again. Ever since that day, Grandfather Sanders became famous in the local community for being exiled. Grandmother Jenelle banished him from the pharmacy and was not allowed to enter without her consent. If he was allowed, he had to sit on a stool and and wash dishes.

Grandfather Sanders finally decided to sneak in one day on his own when Mrs. Jensen slept in the rocking chair on the front porch of the old pharmacy store. Scared stiff, he tipped toed behind the counter, grabbed one lemon scoop, and ran out the back door as fast as he could. He took his first bite. His front tooth fell out instantly. He threw the rest of the ice cream to the ground. Picked up his tooth off the ground and hollered a huge cry. Mrs. Jensen grabbed him right away by the arm the instant he came around the corner. She knocked the tooth from his hand. “I told you if you followed your father’s footsteps, you’d have no teeth left. You never listen. “

 

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6 minute fiction. I thought, I would try it since back in 2013, I had a friend that was a professor and encouraged me to try out. He's passed away since then, but his goal was for me to learn to write literary fiction. It's different to write that way. Since you said take action. Here you go.

Grandfather Sanders is a pharmacist in the local community. Luck is not the question. He inherited the store from his father, Jared. Born into the family, it was just natural to take over the family small business back in the day.

Five of his buddies sit at the ice cream bar every afternoon for a cheeseburger, fries, and soda. He was 26 years old when he inherited the store. There is one photograph of him and his father on the wall. They stand shoulder to shoulder eating and ice cream cone. Both are fixed in their pin stripe suits and ties, dark hair, and light eyes, tall, and handsome. This was his 26th birthday. The customers today often ask if their twin brothers. I remind them they are father and son.

The morning my great grandfather met my grandfather was the day he was born out the back door. He always laughed he was a true medicine man since he was born in the back of the pharmacy. His latest delivery. Grandfather Sanders came so fast my grandmother never had a chance to get inside and up the stairs to the second-floor apartment. Born right in the dirt and dust. Grandmother Jenelle was so furious.

Grandfather Sanders was wrapped up in a towel and soon was rushed to the neighbors for safe keeping with Mrs. Jensen.

Curly red locks, the Irish curls stick to Mrs. Jensen’s forehead, pinned back to the side, she carried Grandfather Sanders around town as if he was her own boy. Stern to the bone, Mrs. Jensen seemed determined to make sure he never had one bit of ice cream all the days of his life while she was in charge. Never would he be influenced by his father’s sweet tooth.

“Here’s a jar of your teeth.” Mrs. Jensen used to say. My Grandfather Sanders believed if he ate the ice cream, he would lose his teeth. “You don’t want to wear dentures like your father, do you? Your Grandmother Jenelle, already thinks you’re a mess.”

Grandmother Jenelle thought my Grandfather Sanders was her biggest mistake. The local newspaper wrote about the incident in the gossip column. The latest celebrity of the day, my Grandmother Jenelle, did not want anything do with my Grandfather Sanders ever again. Ever since that day, Grandfather Sanders became famous in the local community for being exiled. Grandmother Jenelle banished him from the pharmacy and was not allowed to enter without her consent. If he was allowed, he had to sit on a stool and and wash dishes.

Grandfather Sanders finally decided to sneak in one day on his own when Mrs. Jensen slept in the rocking chair on the front porch of the old pharmacy store. Scared stiff, he tipped toed behind the counter, grabbed one lemon scoop, and ran out the back door as fast as he could. He took his first bite. His front tooth fell out instantly. He threw the rest of the ice cream to the ground. Picked up his tooth off the ground and hollered a huge cry. Mrs. Jensen grabbed him right away by the arm the instant he came around the corner. She knocked the tooth from his hand. “I told you if you followed your father’s footsteps, you’d have no teeth left. You never listen. “

I intruded upon your daily planner. A thick, leather, weathered cover, fringed edges, singed pages with cigarette butts used for markers, it is easy to remember the details.

By the engraved signature, the quality of the content, suggests perhaps it enlists the highest caliber of fine businessmen and women.

Scribbled out lines. Doodles in the margins. Highlighted surnames of important officials in the community. Black ink stains the page with a blotted tear of disappointment. Coffee stains dripped on the middle page from woman who sat next to you on the airplane, June 1, 2021, on the way to Chicago, just so you would remember her name and number.

The planner slipped out of your jacket this morning in my taxi. Absent minded, you were unaware of the dilemma as you rushed to exit in desperation to make your next meeting with a dash of cologne, swiped to your face, a pull of your tie, a quick glance of your client, perked with a professional smile. One flash of your business card alerted them with one tap on the shoulder, you guided them into the building without hesitation.

The planner’s pages are brittle falling out of the book binding. Did I purposely forget to remind you, you dropped it? My selfish private curiosity showed opportunity to stay in contact with you for a slight brief minute until you realize it is missing.

For a slight interruption in your busy day the inspection of a prized possession is exposed unveiling the mystery of your thoughts, the private inclination of what makes you angry, what makes you disappointed, what you believe brightens you up with colorful highlights.

Two singed fiery dragons on the last few pages are etched into the thick Ivory grained paper, an idea for a logo of your future business. A tiny fold at the top of the right margin spells out ~ Margaret~ written out in blue~ not black` ink. Who could she be?

 

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I'm glad if it helps you improve your writing. The pace of the short story is great, btw.

You need to learn the tropes and get feedback to improve, I was just pointing out how it looked from here. I've been guilty of too much "learning" and too little "doing". That's why I recognize it quickly.

Btw, you've made me realized why I'm not cut for fiction. I'm good at non-fiction and screenwriting, but doing prose is a different animal.

 

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In the middle of M.J's first book a 2nd time to refresh my mind, and catch up with unscripted to get focused since I haven't read that stuff for awhile.
Two more books left to read.

I have been practicing a few short-stories.
Next week, I will probably work on schedule and plan out what I need to do until the end year and make some goals every week and month.

I ran into a problem with Kobo and not sure if I want to use them or not in the future.

The

I intruded upon your daily planner. A thick, leather, weathered cover, fringed edges, singed pages with cigarette butts used for markers, it is easy to remember the details.

By the engraved signature, the quality of the content, suggests perhaps it enlists the highest caliber of fine businessmen and women.

Scribbled out lines. Doodles in the margins. Highlighted surnames of important officials in the community. Black ink stains the page with a blotted tear of disappointment. Coffee stains dripped on the middle page from woman who sat next to you on the airplane, June 1, 2021, on the way to Chicago, just so you would remember her name and number.

The planner slipped out of your jacket this morning in my taxi. Absent minded, you were unaware of the dilemma as you rushed to exit in desperation to make your next meeting with a dash of cologne, swiped to your face, a pull of your tie, a quick glance of your client, perked with a professional smile. One flash of your business card alerted them with one tap on the shoulder, you guided them into the building without hesitation.

The planner’s pages are brittle falling out of the book binding. Did I purposely forget to remind you, you dropped it? My selfish private curiosity showed opportunity to stay in contact with you for a slight brief minute until you realize it is missing.

For a slight interruption in your busy day the inspection of a prized possession is exposed unveiling the mystery of your thoughts, the private inclination of what makes you angry, what makes you disappointed, what you believe brightens you up with colorful highlights.

Two singed fiery dragons on the last few pages are etched into the thick Ivory grained paper, an idea for a logo of your future business. A tiny fold at the top of the right margin spells out ~ Margaret~ written out in blue~ not black` ink. Who could she be?

 

[Mattie]

The New Beginning in 2021. I kind of took the same path as M.J. and started taking notes back in 2011 and have 150,000 words I finished in 2014. I found M.J.'s book and put it aside because I needed to go the rest of the way of going through a lot of different elements of the process to finish this book from a women's perspective of a writer. I remember when I started the forum M.J. kind of challenged me since he knew I needed to learn a lot more then what my "Ego" claimed to know at the time in thinking I could just be the "Babe Ruth" and not go through the process. He's a smart guy!

I do have to kind of chuckle because if M.J. didn't challenge me in 2014 to go through the process, I probably would have not wrote this novel the way it was intended to be written in 2021. Some people believe you just write a book. And some people do just write a book. I just feel now, I was meant to go through the process first to write a better quality book. I am a prolific writer and could write all day long, but I've learned you can just write all you want, but it has to have some value, quality, substance, structure, form, organization, and improvement every year.

I bought some books I've been reading. Right now I'm on page 274 Revising Your Novel, by Janice Hardy. There's three books in one. Amazingly there's a lot of stuff to remember and I didn't know. Ah, but the process I went through is in there as well.

I do love the book Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers And Gamers. Absolutely love how it talks in depth about building your society, culture, economics, races, and gets into detail the full dynamics of creating just about everything we do in our own world, but transforming it into fiction or fantasy. I'm on page 82, and is written by Trent Hergenrader. It's very technical though so not like your average writers book.

I also have three books, Creative Writing Student's Handbook by Catherine Hartigan Margaret James
The Short Story Writers Workbook.
The Novelists Workbook
These are all from the U.K.
I have read them, and found them to be quite useful and informative. They even give some references and resources to sell your writing.

Creating Short-Fiction ~ Damon Knight. I would recommend this one as well. Quite detailed.

How to Write Dialogue That Sparkles ~ Jim Driver. Something to be worked on is dialogue, since it is important to make the voice stand out for characters. Although Screen Writing and Scripts gives you a lot of detail with dialogue. I know to read these already.

Mastering Suspense, Structure, & Plot. ~ J.K. Cleland. I really love this one as well, it is very detailed.

The not read yet list pile sitting next to me.

Stephen King On Writing.
Save the Cat Writes a Novel, Jessica Brody
Writing a Killer Thriller, Jodie Renner
Understanding Conflict, Janice Hardy
The RPG Character Backstory Guide
Plotting Your Novel Workbook, Janice Hardy.

I read fast, but I know to slow down, because there's so much information there. Obviously, I need to apply it, practice it, and hone the skills. Which probably will be quite transforming getting into a different niche, writing style, and applying the Psychology skills I already have.

A new process for 2021. I'm sure there will be some growth. I'm sure I need to learn copy writing as well as M.J. says.

Challenges may be switching from non-fiction psychology writing into show and not tell. I'm very descriptive, visual, colorful, and may want to describe too much.

I do need to sharpen up on my grammar and editing. I do have enough to read here first.

 

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Reading Unscripted . I just want to note. Fifty Shades of Gray and to not focus on eyes and hair for the entire book. I did have to laugh.

Brings up the point to have quality standards in writing a novel that is not wasting the readers time and will get black listed. Not to mention making the reader "Suffer."

Which reminds me to look back at research on different generations of reviews I did in the past of what they were complaining about reading in different novels.

 

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On Chapter 34 of Unscripted today. Nothing like M.J. kicking you butt! I see the what I've already been doing right and what I've been doing wrong. I see the error of my ways.

Finished Unscripted . After reading Unscripted , I was listening to some music video's from a movie and was thinking my novel needed to transform in a different direction. I was also focused on the wrong genre the whole time. Weird how this just kind of became clear what the main focal point was about all along as I wrote it.

I need to do some searching on statistics for this genre and find out what other people are writing since I was focused entirely in the wrong place.

 

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Finished Unscripted . After reading Unscripted , I was listening to some music video's from a movie and was thinking my novel needed to transform in a different direction. I was also focused on the wrong genre the whole time. Weird how this just kind of became clear what the main focal point was about all along as I wrote it.

I need to do some searching on statistics for this genre and find out what other people are writing since I was focused entirely in the wrong place.

Finished Unscripted . After reading Unscripted , I was listening to some music video's from a movie and was thinking my novel needed to transform in a different direction. I was also focused on the wrong genre the whole time. Weird how this just kind of became clear what the main focal point was about all along as I wrote it.

I need to do some searching on statistics for this genre and find out what other people are writing since I was focused entirely in the wrong place.

Sifted through some of this thread on copy writing for my novel. Will have to learn how this applies to pitches, advertising, and website.

GOLD! - Lex DeVille's: 15 Days to Freedom - Make Money Copywriting in 15 Days or Less

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Sifted through some of this thread on copy writing for my novel. Will have to learn how this applies to pitches, advertising, and website.

GOLD! - Lex DeVille's: 15 Days to Freedom - Make Money Copywriting in 15 Days or Less

15 Days to Freedom Make money copywriting in 15 days or less. (Without writing a hundred Gary Halbert letters) Everything you think you know about the way they’ve taught you to think about the way things are supposed to work… …is a lie. Consider what this sentence actually means. Now think...

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Read 17 Chapters of Escape the Rat Race.
Did some research on some other stuff for Novel.

 

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publishing platforms.

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Planning a Book Launch

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Planning a Book Launch

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I thought this might be useful for new fiction authors if they have the book Save the Cat since she goes through a playlist she made to help authors work with the book and adapt it to the novel your writing.

I have the book myself.

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I thought this might be useful for new fiction authors if they have the book Save the Cat since she goes through a playlist she made to help authors work with the book and adapt it to the novel your writing.

I have the book myself.

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5 minute Rule of Disney Movies

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Science behind the Character.

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Writing a Series

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Writing a Series

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The last three days gathering all the research I have been collecting on different subjects and , refreshing and reviewing , and recalling the memory to create the characters I had in mind for the novel.

Then gather new research for updates on certain characters. with current research, technology, gadgets, science, and transforming the old ideas with new ideas.

In the Writing Workshop they did mention that research was important because the facts have to be true to the characters, the details, since readers who may be experts in certain fields or history will point out those errors if you don't do the research.

I have been getting things organized and just make cheat sheets so I can look at them fast and pull them up with ease while writing.

A lot of ideas coming to mind what I can do in a series, and contemplating how to split it up into three parts.

 

[Mattie]

i thought maybe some one could use this template for deadlines.

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i thought maybe some one could use this template for deadlines.

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The only comment I have about this plan is i have the Graphic Artist background myself and it's easy to make book covers myself with Canva. I personally have already learned a lot of stuff where I don't need to rely on other people and save time. I believe this comes down to whether you want to wait around for other people to do certain tasks. Some things you do want like Beta readers and editors, but then a book cover is subjective if you want to take the time yourself or outsource it to others.

This depends on quality or professionalism as well and presentation.

 

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I decided to take a Graphic Design course to upgrade my old skills for book covers today. Also for marketing and advertising purposes. It points out different automation systems on social media as well as different sites to get different elements of photographs, artwork, etc.

Book Brush tutorial for Authors and Magazine creators

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Book Brush tutorial for Authors and Magazine creators

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- YouTube

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What I'm noticing is that i have some opportunities here. Since I am Gen X, I know in the past, they used to have Science fiction magazines with short stories back in the day. Which if I remember right back home in the bookstores I also remember seeing they still had magazines. I would just have to d some research and see what is selling and not selling.

Then because I do non-fiction as well, I could actually start my own magazine. As I had some ideas back in 2006, I did in the physical world, but did not have the opportunity as much as I do now to expand on those ideas.

Then of course the Novel and Screen Writing. This would be some goals to reach for the next few years since I can only work on one project at a time or a few in the same direction.

Then adding all my gifts together with photography, graphic arts, writing, and working towards the goals. This is really is limitless options.

 

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What I'm noticing is that i have some opportunities here. Since I am Gen X, I know in the past, they used to have Science fiction magazines with short stories back in the day. Which if I remember right back home in the bookstores I also remember seeing they still had magazines. I would just have to d some research and see what is selling and not selling.

Then because I do non-fiction as well, I could actually start my own magazine. As I had some ideas back in 2006, I did in the physical world, but did not have the opportunity as much as I do now to expand on those ideas.

Then of course the Novel and Screen Writing. This would be some goals to reach for the next few years since I can only work on one project at a time or a few in the same direction.

Then adding all my gifts together with photography, graphic arts, writing, and working towards the goals. This is really is limitless options.

Creating a Trailer using book Brush
As a poet I am going to love this one.

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