Writing Your Novel – Lessons From Mt. Everest
By Deb Gallardo
The Process of Writing a Novel Can Seem Like
Climbing the World’s Highest Mountain
Sometimes the enormity of writing a novel can be so overwhelming that writers want to give up before they ever get started. Completing 60,000 – 100,000 or more words can loom as large as Mt. Everest. Actually, making arrangements to “conquer” Mt. Everest and getting ready to write a novel both take conditioning and preparation.
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Writing Your Novel Video Series – 3
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The featured author today in this ongoing video series on writing your novel is popular online writing instructor Holly Lisle. This is only one of her videos entitled Writer Crash Test. Set up in the format of a classic Private Eye movie complete with a PI narrator, this video examines what is right, and wrong, with the story and how to fix it.
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Writing Your Novel Video Series – 4
By Deb Gallardo
You may love him or hate him, but bestselling author Stephen King is a power to be reckoned with. He has a wealth of information about the writing process. The video below is specifically about short story ideas versus novel story ideas.
Here is Stephen King’s definitive book on writing. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Writing Your Novel Video Series – 2
By Deb Gallardo
Author Robin Rice is the subject of today’s video on writing. She has three videos in which she offers tips from Al Zuckerman’s book “Writing the Blockbuster Novel.”
This book is not currently in print, but you can purchase it “used” from Amazon’s trusted booksellers starting at $.01 plus shipping, by clicking on my special link above. (See my Material Connections page here) It won’t make Mr. Zuckerman any money at this point, but it will make YOU a better writer if you apply his advice, which includes “applying the seat of the pants to the seat of your chair” and writing, writing, writing.
If you’re not into Irish humor when you view her second video (personally I like a bit o’ the blarney meself) skip forward about 49 seconds. The rest is pure writing inspiration, as is the third video in her series. She has other writing videos as well, and I encourage you to take the time today to view them, or to subscribe to her YouTube channel and check out her videos regularly.
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Writing Your Novel Video Series – 1
By Deb Gallardo
Today’s article is short and sweet. Here is a link to a video of David M. Harris, who has taught English at Vanderbilt University and other schools. He has 10 videos in his series. Each is less than three minutes. Not all the videos relate to our Story Ideas topic, so feel free to pick and choose. Be sure to comment below to let me know if you want more writing videos.
