The Crazy Novellers (and other writing)
I write, you write, we all write. is that alright?
Welcome To The Crazy Novellers
As hosted on such sites as writing.com and facebook; The Crazy Novellers now have their own website happilly hosted by Freewebs.com.
We hope to continue our random writing exercises that seemingly help cure writers block!
Feel free to join us anytime; just make sure to register and announce yourself in the forums in order to join our wonderful community of crazyness.
We strive for personal best and will help you with anything we can. We are not instructors just a group of novellers who help each other accomplish our own personal goals. Sometimes writing is a solo job, but some need help.. even if it's something as simple as a definition or help with a plot section. JUST ASK!!. We will give you the best help we can.. Just return the favor.
This website is what you make of it. Use it well and respect the other members.
Late Night Rantings of a tired writer
When people think of editing they think of spelling errors and finding things to reword. What some don't understand is that there are many layers of editing and you won't just edit once and hit print.
When writing anything understand that you just don't write something like a novel once through and expect it to be published, or even finished. Hardly.
Any well weathered author (which I'm not btw..) will tell you you will re write something over 5 times before your happy with it.
A good list to follow:
- Summary!
Write; in plain English, what it is about, where its gonna take place, who's in it(the characters,) and whats gonna happen.
This is a very basic outline.
- Next would be to outline your chapters; make a point form list of all major details and events per chapter. List what characters are present in this chapter and places etc. Basically map it out and divide it into chapters.
- Start adding descriptive details for each point form note. Add color to your now black and white painting. I find sticky notes help here because I'm too lazy to rewrite everything out to make room for the descriptors.
- Don't even worry about whether or not its going to be in first person or not right now; what your doing is setting a pretty stable outline to follow. So if you get lost or forget something you have a reference when your writing.
- Finally get to writing the darn thing. take your time; you have it well mapped out.
- When you think you are satisfied with whats written begin the actual editing.
- Go through your spelling errors, typo's, incomplete sentence structures, commas and quotes, ;'s and :'s and -'s and what have you. Make sure it's well legible for your reading audience.
- HAVE SOMEONE ELSE GO THROUGH IT. it is very helpful to have an outsider edit as well; they will see things you skim over. If a random paragraph shows up in the middle of chapter 2 and isn't explained anywhere; they will notice.
- Note for those seeking publishers: some, and not all, publishers enjoy a well broken down outline compared to a completed novel. Reason being if they see potential in your outline they can monitor your process.. not all publishers like a finished product.
so, yeah that's my midnight rantings.
Evelyn J Grass
P.S. anything i say is subject to criticism and not entirely true; its just what i think and does not represent all, if any, authors of all, or any, genres. :D
NaNoWriMo !!!
Congratulations to the many authors involved with the yearly writing challenge NaNoWriMo (http://www.nanowrimo.org/). Especially to WritingChick29 for finally completing her goal of 50,000 words! Congrats!
Keep it up!
:A Note From Evelyn J. Grass