Blog Book Adventure [Post #3]: Planning… Planning… And (YUP!) more planning!

I’m looking forward to crawling onto the floor infront of this very desk that I type on and start piecing out a very rough net outline for unintentionally on purpose. I have a pretty good idea already of where I want the story to end up, but only a vague premise as to how and where it’ll start.

I have my protagonist: a thirteen-fourteen year old geeky boy who is semi-athletic and very personable to the people he knows well. His name is Griffin Goode and …

… he’s about to be solicited by an organization to participate in a project that has been ongoing to cover up a technology department mishap that was either allowed to happen, or accidentally overlooked.

That’s the premise.

Let me know what you think below!

[Just know that your comments are only that. They will not change or influence or alter my story. Thanks for visiting!]

My writing life: meow

Writing. It’s a critter that doesn’t sleep when it’s supposed to. It makes little “gift” on the floor. It begs for attention at the worst of times. It doesn’t just tell you what it wants to do.

That would make things too easy!

No. Writing is a strange animal. A something something that has no finite definition. A thing that grows, evolves, and adapts to each wielder and reader.

Writing is, also, an amazing journey. One full of ups and downs. The ups overpower the downs ….

This journey is awesome!!!

Book Blogging Post #2: Status Update

I’m sitting here with a stack of napkins (since there is no paper). And I’m working out some dets and sets for unintentionally on purpose.

I’ll keep you posted!!

This is poor-ish sounding, no!? Well, at any rate… The tough must get going…

My writing life: Backstory

I’ve been writing since before sixth grade. The exact time and place is beyond my recollection, or at least just my caring. That’s really not my forte. I don’t really see the need to know for that. It’s not like what I knew back then will help or harm me now as I become more and more serious about being serious about writing.

I can tell you when that happened. I can remember when and where I was too. But that’s really not important either in the here and now of my present situation.

What does matter is the pivotal point between that time and now that I was changed from a naïve amateur who just sat down to write when the notion to write hit me without a plan or a method or a theme or a … anything… into a serious writer. It wasn’t a specific day.

It was when I landed on a website. Two actually. Wait make that three.

1.) Storyfix.com (Larry Brooks) – Writing/Story Structure Guru
2.) CreativePenn.com (Joanna Penn; AKA J. F. Penn) – Accomplished Self-published Author & Writing Podcaster
3.) MarieForleo.com – A rich, happy and hot multi-passionate Entrepreneur who coaches women to make it in Online Businesses.

These three people are huge in my brain right now. They might not even know it, but they might know it. Whatever, they are awesome. If you need something to boost your writing moral or cure you temporarily of your fear of success, or your fear of failure (whichever, both are scary to some extent, no?)… Click above to be launched into some kind of wonderful epiphany for your life, writing, business, etc. Do it…

Each one of their sites has TONS of free, valuable content! They are real people dedicated to help you do something. And they give away a lot of their know-how for free… Did I mention it’s free!? They also have amazing books (that I own and have read most of them or reading them now) on said awesome content that actually teaches you everything you need to know about it … delving deep and thoroughly into their most passionate topics. GET IT! READ IT! DO IT!

A wise person doesn’t just talk about it, they act about it.

Tell me what you’re going to do below! NOW! Then, go do it. If you need it, I’ll point (link or poke or kick, maybe) you in the right direction…

Blog Novel Post #1: Inspiration In the Form of Cover Art

Here is some Cover Art Inspiration for my blogged novel writing process.

I am starting this Blog Novel from scratchity-scratch-scratch. And I’m going to be dragging you all along for the ride. I hope everyone (myself not excluded) learn something by the end of this…” feat”.

Without much pain, confusion or luck… this could get boring. Hopefully much of all three will be here.

Feel free as always to post comments, ideas, or jump start a story planning discussion on each of these posts as I suffer happily through the planning process of writing a story, while all of you watch.

I’m excited. More now than before.

LET ME DO THIS, MUSE OF CREATIVITY!! Hear me and give me lots of love an encouragement.

I must warn you though… Even though I’m blogging my process, plans and eventually the first 30 pages of my drafts and final copy… Any suggestions for the book will not be taken as this is my book, not yours. Just saying for the record, you know. I will not use your ideas, but I will let you know if I’ve already have a similar or same concept in the book.

Also, another warning… Ideas can not be copyrighted as much and many of them are recycled on the daily this world would be Hell if such were the case. So don’t come here yelling and screaming that i’m stealing your ideas because our two brains are distinctly different and the same idea will appear very different on paper for the two of us. If you have a similar idea, flesh it out, write a story, get it published but don’t come crying to me that I’m stealing your idea because you don’t do the foot work to make the idea YOUR STORY. Do not come here attacking MY STORY.

That said. Let the fun begin!! Post below to tell me your thoughts on my cover art …

On Tuesday, I am going to start a Blogged Novel

The idea just hit me.

Actually, I was reading posts on one of my writer communities I frequent, and saw that one of the writer’s there have a book published about a paranormal romance via blogging… or something… so I was instantly hit with the plot bunny idea light bulb thing…

I am going to plan out, write and publish as I go… like a blog-cast…It’s not an original form of publishing… It’s free and I’ll get instant feedback!

So here’s what I have so far…

Point of view will be First person present… It will be posted Chronologically… So Newly posted Chapters will be first and previous will be lower… Index or the ARCHIVES will do for now…

I’ll work out the technicalities as we go…

I’m soooo excited!!

I’m once again a LibriVox.org Volunteer!

I just laid claim to the first two sections of For Every Music Lover: A Series of Practical Essays on Music here –> librivox.org..22 <– And I have already recorded it.

It came out to roughly 41 minutes long with frequent need-to-be-edited spots and breaks and repeats.

So, I have to see what the finished product will be. I want to record for audiobooks professionally, eventually. But THIS is awesome, and I need to update my portfolio recordings with some awesome recordings very, very soon!

It also counts as a reading a book too  

[snip review for new REVIEW SITE!]

More later,

-R