Larry Brooks, over at www.storyfix.com , has a great blog focused on writing. This month, October 2011, he is writing a post a day about NaNoWriMo and there are some great jems in there. So, for posterity sake, because his site is hard to navigate, and to make sure I can find it again, I am pasting links to all 31 of his posts…just so I can read them in order.
A Radical NaNoWriMo Opportunity
2 | Keep Your Character Close to Home
3 | Vet and Fertilize Your Story Idea
4 | Tell Your Story In Context To Something
5 | Don’t Forget to Fall in Love
6 | Filling Out The Big Picture
7 | The Most Important Moment In Your Story
8 | Why and How Your First 12 to 15 Scenes Are Different
10 | Specifics On How To Plan Your Story
11 | Cast Your Story With Familiar Faces
12 | May The Forces Be With You
15 | Stuck? Try This and Move Forward
17 | Learn From Others Who Have Been Down This Road
18 | Don’t Confuse Quirks With Characterization
19 | Center Yourself In The Big Picture
21 | Still Struggling With A Concept
22 | Stare Down Your Limiting Beliefs
23 | Harness The Power of Resentment
25 | A Strategy For Introducing Your Hero
26 | The Pansters Solution To Story Planning
27 | How To Optimize Your Scenes
28 | Don’t Allow The Parts Or The Process To Smother The Whole
29 | Six Tools To Rescue Or Beef Up Your Beat Sheet
30 | On Sub-plots, Sub-Text, and Submarines