marti-v says:
I’m applying Holly’s lessons to my WIP, which is almost 60K words (headed for about 110K), so the index cards for the Sentence Light was tedious and took hours of work. I actually wrote one for every scene in the book so far, and the result shocked me!
Far better to do this as part of the planning process, rather than after so much has been written! Nevertheless, this is an amazing diagnostic tool, as well as planning tool. Using it at the beginning can avoid the problems I found.
I was stunned to learn how passive my protag is in many scenes, how many chapters are devoted to him learning about the new world he’s just stepped into, and how many scenes are very short and relatively meaningless. I have a LOT of beefing up to do!
At the same time, I’m excited and can hardly wait to start on that work. Finally, I can see why some of my work is flat, and recognizing the problem is the first part of fixing it.
Looks like I’m going to be spending a lot of time with my Muse, looking for ways to strengthen the work.
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Hi, I’m really sorry to be off topic here, but I can’t see anywhere else to ask. I’m trying to sign up for the class, but it just keeps taking me back to the same page, not to paypal. I don’t know if there’s a help button on the page, I can’t see anyway of getting help with it. I can’t post a new topic in the forum so I’m having to ask here.
Thanks
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