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| Preparing for the Nanowrimo Adventure
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October 15, 2021
Oakland, CA
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| | What do you yearn for as a creative writer?
What I yearn for is that flow where I get to enter the zone of my story and go there — where I step into the space station hotel casino, be my main character Janey McCallister, lead investigator, step into her heart and feel how she is sad, happy, nervous, yearning for her own quest for justice.
I get to describe the surroundings. What does it look like for her? What does it smell like for her? What does it feel like to be running around this hotel casino looking for clues, managing her people, etc.?
By stepping into this other world, I get to leave my concerns and troubles behind. I get to play in a world that stems from who knows where, my imagination, yes but where else?
I feed my imagination by the science videos I watch, the recent Blue Origin launch with William Shatner, the upcoming Lucy NASA expedition to study the astreroids, my inquiries into space junk and how we can handle that.
As a child, I yearned for adventure. I yearned to go out there, see new things, and explore new lands, new places, new people, and new foods. To smell new air that was very different from mine. I had no idea what that could be. I just knew it was different from where I was.
As a child when I would close the book from reading stories that brought me to faraway places, I would see my place with new eyes. I would smell the smells, feel the texture of the wind on my face, marvel at my little subdivision that I biked in.
Going away in my mind allowed me then to come home again and see the world as the marvel it is.
So what do you yearn for as a fiction writer?
If you’re in that place of yearning and thinking about writing a novel this coming November, I invite you to check out our resources to get you started, so you can plan and prepare, so you can fill your rucksack with tools and supplies for the adventure ahead.
Check out the resources listed here:
Want to Write a Novel? Then Prepare for Nanowrimo |
| | | Want more support to plan your novel?
Then check out our course, Plan Your Novel: 30-Day Writing Challenge, Planning for Non-Planners: Get Ready to Write Your Novel.
Perfect for those who want to work at their own pace.
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| | | Authors in the Marketplace
For me a marketplace orientation starts in earnest when I'm edit, but actually it starts when I begin my story planning.
In planning my novel, I don't think about what will sell and write that. I think about story conventions and how my ideas are aligned or subvert them, and I write what's in my heart and mind.
As you sit down to plan and write your novel, consider the genre of your story and how it may be different or similar to what's already published. Then write what's in your heart.
More about my thoughts and tips on genre while planning your novel here:
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| | #AmWriting : Craft Corner
Check out Daniel Wallace's one-day craft conference happening for one day, this Saturday, Oct. 16. 2021:
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| | | #AmReading Corner
Need some words of encouragment? Need to remind yourself that life is awesome? Look no further! These are the books for you. Here is a team of delightful authors with a selection of their even more delightful books. Available for a limited time. |
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Have a happy and creative week!
All my best,
Beth
PS. My friends at the game design company Loamlight have a neat new game coming to Kickstarter soon.
ABOUT 5 PATHS 5 Paths is a two player, turn-based roll, move, and capture game that plays in about 20-30 minutes.
In 5 Paths, players direct five martial arts Disciples as they leap from rooftops, ricochet off of walls, and compete for glory in the futuristic Old Jack City.
Designed by Loamlight Founder and Creative Director Nick Jackson, 5 Paths is designed to be easy to set up, quick to play, and rewarding for beginning and veteran board game players alike.
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| ABOUT BETH BARANY
Beth Barany is creativity coach for writers, a teacher, workshop facilitator, and speaker, who helps fiction writers experience clarity, so that they can write and polish their novels, and proudly publish them to the delight of their readers.
Owner of the Barany School of Fiction, an online training hub, Beth takes great interest in how humans learn, create, and grow, and includes all her students’ life experiences, including the ancestors, into the moment.
Want a course to help you prepare to write your novel? Discover the comprehensive Plan Your Novel course here, I teach alongside with award-winning, bestselling thriller author, Ezra Barany.
She's also an award-winning novelist and writes magical tales of romance, adventure, and mystery to empower women and girls to be the heroes in their own lives.
Uncover her Henrietta series here (YA Fantasy) and her Touchstone series here (Fantasy/Paranormal Romance). And her new Sci-fi Mystery here.
beth@bethbarany.com
Barany School of Fiction
Writer's Fun Zone blog
Photo Credit: by c. 2018 Ezra Barany
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