TyCobbsTeeth's Blog, page 22

What’s NaNoWriMo you ask?

Ha! Well, I’m glad you did.

NaNoWriMo (na-noh-RY-moh) is short for National Novel Writing Month and it’s a fantastic event that has been running since 1999. The event is an annual ‘internet-based’ creative writing project that which runs for the month of November. NaNoWriMo challenges participants to write 50,000 words of a new novel, between November 1st, and the 11:59 PM deadline on November 30th.

The goal of NaNoWriMo is to get people writing and keep them motivated throughout the process.

There is an associated charitable campaign.

When you donate to National Novel Writing Month, you help bring free creative writing programs to more than 500,000 kids and adults in approximately 100 countries, 2,000 classrooms, 600 libraries, and 500 NaNoWriMo regions every year.

You not only support people’s novel writing dreams, you help transform people into creators who see new possibilities in the world—and act on them. You spark a creative revolution.

So get signed up and donate today @ http://nanowrimo.org/

* The time for preparation and note making is running out! Mash out your next novel –or your FIRST novel this November.

Enjoy!

-TyCobbsTeeth

Tweet, Tweet — Twiddle, Twiddle, here comes another plot with a hole in the middle.

If you fail to explain how A connects to B, or state something that doesn’t make sense (without explanation), then you have left a plot hole.

You want your readers to get swept away in your story and be completely immersed. A plot hole can destroy that experience. If the reader drops out of the ride, in order to examine something that doesn’t make sense, you’ve lost them.

You may be too close to the story to see the holes. As you read through it, those gaps may be appear bridged, since the story did come from your head. The answers to those questions are in your noggin, so it doesn’t seem off. Have someone else read through your book, to make sure you didn’t leave any plot holes.

Remember, the reader badly wants to be taken away by what you’re writing, so don’t destroy it for them.

Cheers!