Write Novels Fast: Writing Faster With Art Journaling: Write Novels Fast, #1
By Shéa MacLeod
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About this ebook
Do you envy prolific writers who seem to pump out multiple novels per year while you struggle to finish one or two?
Are you already fairly prolific and want to become more so?
Are you a pantser who suffers from writer's block and finds plotting abhorrent?
Or are you a plotter who tends to get lost in the minutiae of plotting?
This is the book for you!
With a unique take on art journaling, international best selling author Shéa MacLeod shows you how to increase your writing speed so you can get out more novels faster. WITHOUT the quality suffering.
Shéa MacLeod
Author of the international best selling paranormal series, Sunwalker Saga. Native of Portlandia. Addicted to lemon curd and Ancient Aliens.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Extremely short and the method probably wouldn't work for everyone, but gives a solid overview of this author's process and has made me interested to try it out.
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Write Novels Fast - Shéa MacLeod
Chapter 1
Why A Journal?
ONCE UPON A TIME.
That’s the way most stories start, right? Except this one doesn’t. This one starts with yelling, screaming, a little bit of crying, a laptop through the window...
I always wanted to be a writer. From the first time I picked up a book, I knew what I wanted in life. I wanted to tell stories. My heroes were authors. My drug of choice the written word. I’ve been known to fondly caress the blank pages of a notebook... but I digress.
You see, while I knew I wanted to be a writer, actually writing something was a whole different ball of wax. So to speak. The method of writing—of finishing a novel—it escaped me entirely.
My first attempt at a novel was a romantic suspense. I totally pantsed the whole thing. No plotting. Just flying by the seat of my pants, making things up as I went along. What resulted was a horrifying, melodramatic hodge podge worthy of the worst Spaghetti Western.
Then I heard a very famous mystery writer give a talk (Okay, it was Janet Evanovich). She used the story board method. I can’t draw to save my life, but I do see scenes from books much as one sees trailers for movies. So, I tried my own version. Instead of creating story boards for scenes, I just wrote the scenes as I saw them, when I saw them. Sounds awesome, right?
You would be wrong. What I ended up with was a huge pile of disjointed (but awesome) scenes which wouldn’t fit together no matter how hard I