Comments on: The First Date http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/ Adventure into Romance Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:25:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Wylie Kinson http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4346 Wylie Kinson Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:28:41 +0000 http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4346 Excellent advice, Shelley. I'm printing it off and sticking those points on my bulletin board! Excellent advice, Shelley. I’m printing it off and sticking those points on my bulletin board!

]]> By: Jenyfer Matthews http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4308 Jenyfer Matthews Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:57:44 +0000 http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4308 Great post! #11 is my favorite way to find inspiration. I write in small chunks by necessity and then mull things over while I'm out walking around doing errands or working on a quilt project. I'm really interested in the Alphasmart suggestion too. I am spending a lot of time these days taking the kids to various activities so having a very portable gadget I could bring along would be great. Great post!

#11 is my favorite way to find inspiration. I write in small chunks by necessity and then mull things over while I’m out walking around doing errands or working on a quilt project.

I’m really interested in the Alphasmart suggestion too. I am spending a lot of time these days taking the kids to various activities so having a very portable gadget I could bring along would be great.

]]> By: Amy Gallow http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4284 Amy Gallow Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:26:42 +0000 http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4284 Great advice, great list, and I like the additions made by others, but they are as difficult to follow as the New Year Resolutions I never make. I find every story different, and this is never more true than the current one - a historical where the romance runs parallell to the action, each affecting the other. I began as a plotter, drifted into being a pantser, and am currently a pantser who plots the storytelling at the end of the first draft, recasting the way large chunks are told. (although I am currently doing that task only fifty thousand words into the draft. From choice, I prefer to allot time differently at each stage, often working in the garden, or doing house maintenance during some of them and, as a reformed (only partially) workaholic I have to guard against my tendency to close the rest of the world out and snarl at interruptions - my grandchildren ignore it anyway and barge right in. I like your advice and agree with it, just don't expect me to change too much. Amy Great advice, great list, and I like the additions made by others, but they are as difficult to follow as the New Year Resolutions I never make.

I find every story different, and this is never more true than the current one - a historical where the romance runs parallell to the action, each affecting the other.

I began as a plotter, drifted into being a pantser, and am currently a pantser who plots the storytelling at the end of the first draft, recasting the way large chunks are told. (although I am currently doing that task only fifty thousand words into the draft.

From choice, I prefer to allot time differently at each stage, often working in the garden, or doing house maintenance during some of them and, as a reformed (only partially) workaholic I have to guard against my tendency to close the rest of the world out and snarl at interruptions - my grandchildren ignore it anyway and barge right in.

I like your advice and agree with it, just don’t expect me to change too much.

Amy

]]> By: N.J. Walters http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4282 N.J. Walters Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:37:17 +0000 http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4282 7 & 10 are things I really need to work on. *g* #5 really works well for me. I like to jot ideas in the food court at the mall. Lots of people and stuff happening there. LOL And if all else fails, I think I'll try #12 next time. :-) 7 & 10 are things I really need to work on. *g*

#5 really works well for me. I like to jot ideas in the food court at the mall. Lots of people and stuff happening there. LOL

And if all else fails, I think I’ll try #12 next time. :-)

]]> By: Amy Ruttan http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4280 Amy Ruttan Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:51:19 +0000 http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4280 Yeah the music is there but when I throwing the words out I can miss so much music too. I totally tune everything out. To the point that my DH and kids went for a walk and I wrote, but it was a hard scene to write. They walked in the door, they were gone for over an hour ... it felt like a few minutes to me. Yeah the music is there but when I throwing the words out I can miss so much music too.

I totally tune everything out. To the point that my DH and kids went for a walk and I wrote, but it was a hard scene to write. They walked in the door, they were gone for over an hour … it felt like a few minutes to me.

]]> By: Shelley Munro http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4278 Shelley Munro Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:57:09 +0000 http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4278 Gabriele - I don't think any of us like deadlines!! Pussreboots - I didn't mention music, did I? Definitely music. I love to listen to music while I'm writing, but when I'm in the groove I tune out and don't hear a thing. Gabriele - I don’t think any of us like deadlines!!

Pussreboots - I didn’t mention music, did I? Definitely music. I love to listen to music while I’m writing, but when I’m in the groove I tune out and don’t hear a thing.

]]> By: pussreboots http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4276 pussreboots Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:27:13 +0000 http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4276 #13 listen to some favorite music. Great advice. I loved your list of suggestions. :mrgreen: #13 listen to some favorite music.

Great advice. I loved your list of suggestions.

]]> By: Gabriele http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4275 Gabriele Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:03:14 +0000 http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4275 I'm so unorganised it's not funny, and me being German :wink: but somehow I get stuff written. Though I avoid deadlines like the pest. :mrgreen: I’m so unorganised it’s not funny, and me being German but somehow I get stuff written.

Though I avoid deadlines like the pest.

]]> By: Shelley Munro http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4274 Shelley Munro Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:29:35 +0000 http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4274 The storyboarding class helped me, too. I have a notebook I scribble plot ideas in, which works sort of like a white board. I use this system for longer books where I need/use subplots etc. I end up scrapping some of my ideas but this method helps me think the plot through. Of course I still do quite a bit of pantsing in there. I'm more a hybrid - sort of a cross between the two plotting methods. The visual board and music have never worked for me, but I know lots of people use this as part of the creative process. I love learning about the different ways people have of writing. It fascinates me. Part of each writer's journey is trying out all the methods and learning what works for them. The storyboarding class helped me, too. I have a notebook I scribble plot ideas in, which works sort of like a white board. I use this system for longer books where I need/use subplots etc. I end up scrapping some of my ideas but this method helps me think the plot through. Of course I still do quite a bit of pantsing in there. I’m more a hybrid - sort of a cross between the two plotting methods.

The visual board and music have never worked for me, but I know lots of people use this as part of the creative process.

I love learning about the different ways people have of writing. It fascinates me.

Part of each writer’s journey is trying out all the methods and learning what works for them.

]]> By: Amy Ruttan http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4273 Amy Ruttan Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:03:40 +0000 http://www.shelleymunro.com/blog/2008/03/22/the-first-date/#comment-4273 Yes. The post it's drove me crazy, albeit they are excellent, but I use the whiteboard and FORSOOTH the pantster now plots. LOL! I have different purty colors to for Hero, Heroine, Antagonists, GMC, and the plot. I usually write out those three main characters and what motiviates them, then the plot comes. I erase stuff. I know a basic idea of what I want to happen, and yeah like House I try to figure out why that happens and how to get those guys there. Taking that storyboarding class last year has helped me out a lot. I also do a visual board, with pictures and things that look like characters, and of course on my computer I make a playlist of the music that drives me and the story. :D Yes. The post it’s drove me crazy, albeit they are excellent, but I use the whiteboard and FORSOOTH the pantster now plots. LOL!

I have different purty colors to for Hero, Heroine, Antagonists, GMC, and the plot. I usually write out those three main characters and what motiviates them, then the plot comes.

I erase stuff. I know a basic idea of what I want to happen, and yeah like House I try to figure out why that happens and how to get those guys there.

Taking that storyboarding class last year has helped me out a lot.

I also do a visual board, with pictures and things that look like characters, and of course on my computer I make a playlist of the music that drives me and the story. :D

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