All Blog Posts Tagged 'wittegen' (6)

Writing Diary #59 - Book Series vs Book Serials

I think I'm a fairly patient person in most aspects of my life, but one thing I really can't stand is cliffhangers. I hate watching/reading works in progress and I dislike being left in the lurch by any plot. I'm the kind of person that, if a TV show has a two-parter, I'll save up both parts to watch at the same time. That doesn't mean I don't like continuing plot arcs that go through a series of books or episodes on a TV show, even through a series of movies, but when those arcs are…

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Added by Sophie Duncan on January 30, 2012 at 9:53am — No Comments

Writing Diary #58 - over the hump

Well, I may have only written a paragraph yesterday, but it got me through my little block I had in my Vampire YA, so I'm over the hump :D.



I'm not home free yet, I'm still having to work the characters back through in my head to get them sorted, but I am now moving forward with the story rather than standing still. It didn't help matters that yesterday my computer slowed to an almost complete standstill to the point where the mouse took two minutes to move and I had a lot of…

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Added by Sophie Duncan on January 10, 2012 at 9:19am — No Comments

Writing Diary #57 - character voice

Originally posted to Wittegen Press LJ.



I'm currently reading a murder mystery, which I'm kind of enjoying, but if I hear one more Scot say Aye instead of Yes uniformly, I think I might just start screaming.



I am not a Scot, I'm English, but I know quite a few and Scots accents come in many, many different variations and not every Scot studying in Aberdeen will speak the same, in fact, given…

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Added by Sophie Duncan on January 9, 2012 at 5:00am — No Comments

Writing Diary #56 - plans begun, and onwards!

Also published on Wittegen Press LJ.



Okay, so plan for next 6 months is now in progress, 4 books listed, plus regular atomising stuff!



Wow there's a lot of things to do per book when you list them out, everything from composing tweets to designing the cover. Oh yes, and of course, writing it! :P Each book has at least 33 tasks associated with it and that's only up until launch. After that are the…

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Added by Sophie Duncan on January 6, 2012 at 6:06am — No Comments

Writing Diary #55 - Marketing Plans are complicated

Originally posted: Wittegen Press LJ

Well, I got listed a lot of stuff we ought to do to promote the press and our books, but I didn't manage to get it formatted into a plan yet!



There turned out to be a lot more stuff than I had anticipated and I only got as far as the mindmap, otherwise known as an info-dump, yesterday, so today's writing sessions are focusing again on promotion and not writing, but this stuff…

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Added by Sophie Duncan on January 4, 2012 at 4:46am — No Comments

Writing Diary #54

Originally posted: Wittegen Press LJ (and yes, there are 53 previous entries, but this is a new blog, and I won't bore you with those :D)



Well, it's been a while diary, but new year, new house is almost straight and so it's back to the routine.



Actually, today, I'm not planning on using my writing slots for writing, although I am determined to concentrate on the two pieces I abandoned in November in the face of…

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Added by Sophie Duncan on January 3, 2012 at 4:26am — No Comments

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