Voice Recognition is Awesome But… I’ve just installed Dragon Naturally Speaking and even though it does help to quickly convert speech to text, it does miss some quite common words. Will have to do some more training with it before it becomes quicker. Currently, my WIP is sitting at 1,000 words typed, many more waiting.…
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Organisation Is Crucial I’m now in third gear with my writing, however, the more I am writing, the more loose paper I seem to be collating. Random ideas, thoughts and scraps of scenes pop into my head that I need to get down. Doing this is necessary, but it makes them very easy to lose!…
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LOCK in to a new way of planning your story In a previous post, I outlined some key elements to a story. I have been reading some posts lately and I came across this: LOCK in an amazing plot for your novel: Lead, Objective, Confrontation, Knockout = Great Fiction There are a lot of architects…
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WIP: Seventh Update – Sneak Peek! After a long wait, I finally started writing this week! I’m excited, but there is an air of caution; it’s so easy to become distracted and never finish, or get stuck on the never-ending roundabout of editing and rewriting. I haven’t set myself a time limit…well as long as…
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WIP: Sixth Update Finally, time for an update! I’ve been doing some reading, which I usually find extremely relaxing. However, now that I have entered the writing phase, I have started analysing the writing rather than just reading the story. This is both good and bad; I’m noticing the way the story is structured, which…
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Pen to the Page I’ve been quiet recently as I’ve been reading and thinking about some aspects of how I’m going to write my own novel. What kind of perspective will I have? What tense? How am I going to name these characters? How do I write the first sentence? Some answers instead of questions…
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Flash Fiction: My First Attempt Before I set out on the mammoth task of writing a novel, I thought I should start with something small to get the gears moving again. With all this commotion surrounding flash fiction, I thought I would throw my hat in the ring. “Oh, no. No. No, no, no, NO!”It’s…
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WIP: Fifth Update I set myself a challenge last week to finish all of the back stories by the end of today. I am happy to report that I have completed them! I am glad that I decided to do this, as it helped strengthen the characters. By creating their pasts, it has shown how…
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WIP: Fourth Update In my last update I mentioned the things I was going to do this week were read, start creating character back stories and begin writing some small pieces. I have started working on the first two – getting through more of the book that I’m currently reading – Patricia Cornwell’s PREDATOR –…
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WIP: Third Update Last week I was able to create all the different plots that will intertwine to form the story. This week was spent on a different variety of activities. The majority of my writing time was spent looking for information about how to avoid amateur mistakes. Some of the articles I have read:…
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