It’s the fourth and final week of #WriterInMotion — a month-long effort to write/edit a 1,000 word story while sharing the process on my blog. This week I had the pleasure of working with two more critique partners. Logistics were more challenging this week, as I was out in the country for some end-of-summer-break, socially […]
Writer in Motion Week 3: CP Revision Draft
I’m writing and editing a 1,000 word science fiction story this month as part of Writer in Motion. It’s been a lot of fun; you can see my first draft and second, self-edited draft in my previous posts. This week, we’re revising our stories based on feedback from two critique partners. I was delighted to […]
Writer in Motion Week 2: My Story’s Second Draft
I’m taking part in #WriterInMotion this month — writing and revising a 1,000-word story while documenting the process on this blog. Last week I shared the first draft of my sci-fi story (“The Watcher in the Vale”). It clocked it at about 1,050 words, so one of my goals in the first revision was to […]
Writer in Motion Week 1: My Story’s First Draft
So I’m doing a new writing challenge this month: writing and revising a 1,000 word short story while documenting the process on my blog. In my previous post, I shared the visual story prompt that was issued by the organizers of Writer in Motion. To me, the image could have inspired a story in just […]
Writer in Motion Story Experiment: Day One
Over the next five weeks I’ll be writing and editing a 1,000 word story while sharing the process on this blog. This is part of a community writing / blogging experiment called Writer in Motion. It’s kind of like a miniature NaNoWriMo: you commit to writing something in a set period of time, and you […]
