A DREAM – A STORY – A JOURNEY
Each major revision, I'm learning, takes a bit of customization to my process to fit the most current project I'm working through. Having a process is key, but it is not what will get the job done completely. Last week, as I was struggling to finalize the new outline for the manuscript, to wrestle out... Continue Reading →
Last week I finally started diving into the revisions for MS:TS. I've been dancing around this manuscript for the past few weeks, trying to figure out my way in, and after being sidelined with a cold for a week, I knew it was time to stop hesitating and start working. I realized after I sat... 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 →
Going through my goal planning process and breaking it down over the past month has been hugely helpful as I look to the months ahead. With it all in mind, it is time for me to embrace a new timeline moving forward. Traditionally, I set an overview for my entire writing year in May/June of... Continue Reading →
Once I've finished the third step in my goal planning process ( Timeline and Tools: Goal Planning Process Step 3), I'm ready for the fourth and final step. The very last step in my goal planning process is to start working toward my goals. Through this process I have reflected on the previous set of... Continue Reading →
Once I've finished the second step in my goal planning process (https://wordpress.com/posts/my/nikolebreault.com ), I'm ready for step three. This is where I set my goals to my timeline and figure out which tools I'm using to get there. I look at the timeline the way I did in the previous step and commit to where... Continue Reading →
Writing this manuscript for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) 2021 was one of the most challenging writing tasks I've undertaken yet. It was the most amount of writing I've done in the shortest amount of time and I'm still reeling from everything that was dredged up from it. Like the setting of my book, stirring... Continue Reading →
The week before last I hit a huge milestone in completing a revision on one of my manuscripts and it was a really important goal of mine to achieve. That success is a step in the direction of publication, but nowhere near the finish line. I’ll preface this to say that what I am working... Continue Reading →
The final sentence has been written and the completed story has been printed. The emotions I have looking at this manuscript are hard to describe, but the one that rises to the top is pride. I finished this story and I am so damn proud of how it came out. The holes that existed in... 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 →
Nikole Breault 