SnowFlakers.net : A forum for people using the snowflake method of writing a novel
April 21st 2008
I’ve now moved the forum off my blog domain to it’s spanking shiny brand new home:
One sentence summary discussions
April 15th 2008
As discussed on Randy’s blog, I’ve setup a forum for the discussion and critiques of one sentence summaries.
I’ve started the ball rolling with the sentence I’ve been working on this week.
One sentence summaries are hard
April 11th 2008
I’ve been working up a story idea using the snowflake method. Step one is a lot harder than it looks. I’ve been hammering out similar one sentence summaries and trying to whittle it down bit by bit like a crazed boy scout.
Recent posts on the snowflake guys blog are a huge help, as both writer and readers are chipping in to critique everyone else’s sentences, which has really helped with my own. Critiquing other people’s efforts is unfortunately much easy than fiddling with your own!
Onwards I plough.
Writing one sentance summaries
March 31st 2008
I’ve been concentrating on the early parts of Randy Ingermanson’s Snowflake Method, the one sentence and one paragraph summaries.
Earlier last week Randy offered to critique his readers’ sample summaries. Reading these, and Randy’s insightful responses, has proved to be very educational. The main lesson for me has been how a broken summary highlights a broken story, and how fixing that summary also helps fix the whole novel.
How to write a novel
March 27th 2008
To a geek like me, this website by Randy Ingermanson detailing how to write a novel seems to make great sense. As my friend Mac is so fond of saying, Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. So the detailed planning stages of Ingermanson’s snowflake method appeal to the inner programmer in me. In a day-job-tastic feat of immense distraction the eye is off the ball and my mind’s off on a tangent.
Recently, due to press coverage in The Metro I checked out a product called Novel Writer. I didn’t like it. Not my style. When I read Ingermansons method I thought to myself, “Here’s a great opportunity to make a little bit of software that both outlines this method and makes it simple to gather together everything generated in the first nine steps, to aid when switching to a favoured word processor for the tenth step.
I really should be concentrating on writing fiction not code!