I have joined yet another novel writing class and feel it is my duty to myself (because I am spending so much damn money) to record the wisdom of the ancients on my nuveau writing tablet.
#1: Imagine the structure of your story, visually- if you have no clue, then it should look like a tangle of earth worms. However, if you are neat and organized it will look like a nice tidy tree similar to that family tree you did in third grade before you realized your daddy ain't necessarily so.
#2: Plot is action- if you don't add enough action to your book, it ain't going nowhere. You will see this at best example in twilight. In movie form it was even more painfully clear that NOTHING EVER HAPPENED. Oh, and Edward was a creepy stalker, not romantic.
#3: Force your plot points- when you have a pivotal moment where the plot must be pushed along at breakneck speed, force your character to make the choice that furthers the story. If she has four days to twiddle her thumbs and cogitate, then there will be no tension.
#4: Tell yourself the storyline every day: Repeat it ad nauseum until you know every little in and out. THe bonus part of this is you will start to weed out undesirable parts of your story automatically.
And then, #5 says 'develop characters'. Well, duh, Jaye. Perhaps you should take better notes. I'll think on it and maybe get back to you.
And that was class #1. Oh,and (random fact learned last night) people with ADD are highly distrating.
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ahh...edward. while reading the books, he was dangerous and sexy and the perfect stand-in for "the one" from high school. he was, in short, the perfect drug for the teenager still in me.
in the movie, he's a cranky backstreet boy with too much make up. (though perhaps that was redundant).
oh how i longed for the smoldering angst of "teenage" jason behr. i'm going to go weep into the pages of breaking dawn.
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