sci fi – Tale Chasing / Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:33:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 A few good finds… /a-few-good-finds/ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:33:49 +0000 http://www.talechasing.com/items/date/2008/04/17/a-few-good-finds/ Because I felt so tired today, something I’m sure you’ll come across from time to time, I tried my best to put myself in the frame of mind to work on my project. The best way I could think of to do that was take a few minutes and go through some of my RSS feeds from my favorite writers, etc.

Here’s a few things I found that might be of interest to you. I’ll be adding a few of them to the Resources page as well.

Laurell K Hamilton puts up a post on her blog where she talks about realizing what SHE wants to do and what her Characters want to do are two different things and which way is better to go.

Lawrence Watt Evans, writes several great articles on his site dealing with writing, getting your work published, and sci-fi/fantasy in your work. It’s well worth going and looking over the site.

For anyone who wants to put a touch of the middle ages in their stories, I ran across a site on Castles and the like. It’s a great find for extra believability in your stories.

]]> Ep 13: Learning to Plot /ep-13-learning-to-plot/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:21:38 +0000 http://www.talechasing.com/items/date/2008/04/15/ep-13-learning-to-plot/ Well I did it. I finally figured out how to put together a plot for a novel. Thanks largely to Holly Lisle the following podcast tells you from start to finish how I constructed the plot for the podcasting project soon to come.

The following were mentioned in the podcast in no particular order:

Promo:

I Should Be Writing

In the podcast I talk about how to use Mind Manager or a Bubble Map to help brainstorm for your story. The following link is a .pdf of a sample bubble map using Mind Manger Pro 7. It’s slightly altered from what I mention in my podcast but I’m a writer and we do that kinda thing. It will however make sense once you see it. 🙂

I also mention how to figure out the number of scene cards you need depending on your book length. Here is Holly Lisle’s formula for calculating scene cards for building a fast plot.

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