His muse brought him a romantic suspense whose heroine has a job so mysterious even he doesn’t know what it is. Hey, this is what you get when the muse brings you a story so superbly cool.
Using HTTS techniques this student is now teasing out his heroine’s job and story and the murder at the bottom of all the fictional conflict.
If you’re over 18, check this out. Fascinating.
When real life is peaceful, calm, serene, yet informative, we rejoice.
When fiction is peaceful, calm serene, yet informative, we yawn, put down the book and go clean the gutters.
Lesson 5 of How to Revise Your Novel analyzes the overall conflict as well as the scene conflict and then brainstorms it higher and tighter and more interesting.
The gutters may never get cleaned again, and that’s a good thing for your novel-writing career.
Your Muse demands to write in a lovely place with natural lighting, preferably while your grandmother bakes biscuits and your grandfather brews coffee. Or in a secluded cabin beside a mountain lake.
However, the reality is that most of your time is spent on the job or in your affordable apartment. How can you write when your Muse turns up her nose at your surroundings?
Donate, accept, or trade strategies here.
This HTRYN student got an effortless insight, courtesy of the Muse who visits sleeping artists.
I had an experience last night/this morning that will help me explore a sub-theme and may illuminate a lot of threads in my revision novel. . . .
I dreamed. . . .
In the dream, I felt a sense-of-wonder jaw drop. I then forgot about the dream until I made my cup of coffee this morning, when it came back to me and I felt the same sense-of-wonder gooseflesh, both at the realization and that I’d dreamed it.
Have you had a similar experience? Would you like to ask more about this one?
This HTRYN student didn’t wait for the course to be complete–she has already begun to use her new insights in writing and submitting a short story.
I have read the materials about promises, and applied them to that story. It was an absolute revelation! I was so happy to see that in most places my intuition was right. I was happy to be able to explain it using Holly’s text, the details, the scale, the reason behind it.
Quite a few HTRYN students are also HtTS students. This makes for interesting thought convergences. Here some students discuss their wish lists of elements for first drafts and their plans for revision.
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This student loves a story written by someone else, and has felt inspired to try something similar to it. But there’s a troublesome doubt putting a hitch in his happy dance of creativity: is his story truly a new story or is it too much like the inspiration piece?
Hmm.
Sounds like a great topic for discussion.