A DREAM – A STORY – A JOURNEY
After I spent time last week digging through paper and digital files, looking through notebooks and papers, I realized I needed to be smarter about how I was archiving feedback. I paused from my revisions to work on an archiving system I hope to really lean into and follow moving forward. Not only did I... Continue Reading →
One of the most helpful things when I am revising is looking back over the feedback I’ve received on previous drafts of the piece. The challenge I always find myself battling when I get there though, is finding it and the process of reviewing it in a way that helps me during the project. As... Continue Reading →
In my preparations to begin revising MS:TS, I have made a rather large decision about the story. Largely based on invaluable feedback from critiquing sessions and a class I just finished, plus some serious grappling with the implications of the decision, I have decided to change this manuscript from a one Point of View (POV)... Continue Reading →
Three more chapters are all that stand between me and finishing this story. I am so excited to see it come to the end and have found my mind wandering to reflections on the process. I couldn't help but spend a lot of time reflecting on the timing of feedback on drafts of stories last... Continue Reading →
Now that my 2020-2021 writing year has come to an end, I can feel like I've let go of one more level of 2020. I'm no longer constantly ghosted by what my year looked like then, as I prepare for my 2021-2022 writing year to begin. This year is a little different for me than... Continue Reading →
All I wanted to do December 1st was walk away from my writing projects and binge Dawson’s Creek on the nights I would have been chasing my word count. Did I do that? No. Because there was a goal I had set myself way back in January that I wasn’t going to let the general... Continue Reading →
I was trying to explain to my husband how I was feeling, that I wanted to write about something, but I wasn’t at the right place to yet. I was coming out of the fog of a migraine and having a hard time thinking of the word to explain what I was feeling. I said,... Continue Reading →
I am sending out my first query letters. THIS. WEEK. This is the first step in the journey of turning my passion into my profession. Where I start sending my words out into the world and inviting people (beyond my loving husband and band of trusted critique ladies) to enter the worlds that I've created... Continue Reading →
I just finished my first quarter of 2019-2020, and it was awesome! Not because I completed the goals as I set them at the beginning of the quarter, but because I realigned my goals to give more time and focus to the ones that will get me closer to querying. Originally, I thought that during... Continue Reading →
So. I'm happily going along, revising SB, reviewing all the feedback I've received, when I notice a circle on the word count on a draft. Then a note about word count on another draft. And then, my brain remembers a conversation from one of our peer critique sessions, when a friend remarked that I should... Continue Reading →
Nikole Breault 