A DREAM – A STORY – A JOURNEY
There is a power and strength to the free write that never ceases to amaze me. It’s funny because I haven’t let myself truly and honestly engage in a free write in a very long while. A free write is a writing exercise where a person writes whatever comes to mind for a certain amount... Continue Reading →
August 2020 is done and we are into September. Still 2020, but a new month, so I’ll take it. Ending August was rough. We left summer vacation mode and jumped into full remote learning for our daughters. That meant we had to fully deal with the reality that the fall was going to be a... Continue Reading →
Last week I started the work of revising MS:SB. I had already cleared my plot board and knew I really wanted to utilize it during this revision. As I dug into the manuscript and began evaluating my chapters, I made notes as I had before on small pieces of paper. I wrote one for each... Continue Reading →
I had an interesting thing happen this week. A dear friend of mine was asking about a manuscript I had sent her the first chapter of a few years ago and how the story had developed. I told her it was complete and she asked if she could read it in its entirety. I was... Continue Reading →
Starting this blog two years ago turned out to be a natural evolution of chronicling my past. I have journals from the past decade and a half that are a record of the things that have happened to me personally, the evolution of my relationships and family, and the catalog of my goals and dreams.... Continue Reading →
I am a planner. I plan the majority of what I write before I start writing. I have a general idea of who my characters are, what they are trying to accomplish, etc. I have all of this planned before hand either from notes and ideas that were sparked while I was reading a book... Continue Reading →
When I was a kid, I would order the same food, have the same snacks, etc. for years on end. For a solid decade of eating at restaurants, I ate spaghetti and meatballs. Didn’t matter where we were or what the occasion was, if spaghetti and meatballs was an option, I was having it. Some... Continue Reading →
The definition of progress does not, to my surprise, include backward movement. The definition of progress is to make forward momentum and movement toward a goal. In my mind, ESPECIALLY when applied to the pursuit of writing, progress is defined as forward AND backward movement. Do we not write 50,000 words to chop and hack... Continue Reading →
It's such a funny thing, to know something and then for it to happen when you're not thinking of it. I'm re-reading SB for the revisions it needs, and as I was reading a paragraph, I was struck by how much I wasn't seeing or hearing or smelling in this particular scene. I was describing... Continue Reading →
NaNoWriMo 2019 is done. It was a rough month, but I finished with a complete first draft of a novel that I am very excited to go back and revise. The sisters in this novel, the complex relationship that they have, and the individual journeys that they go on were quite a thing to render... Continue Reading →
Nikole Breault 