Comments on: winds of change http://nancywaldman.net/2007/11/16/winds-of-change/ click above to go home Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:55:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: sarala http://nancywaldman.net/2007/11/16/winds-of-change/#comment-62 sarala Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:08:34 +0000 http://nancywaldman.net/2007/11/16/winds-of-change/#comment-62 I really like the top photo. It is blurred but just clear enough you can recognize what it is. I agree with your observations about the process of writing. I am plotting in the shower, in the car and before I fall asleep. Sometimes the inspiration I find is gone by the time I can get to my computer or a piece of paper and sometimes not. I'm glad yours is going well. I'll check out your nano site. I really like the top photo. It is blurred but just clear enough you can recognize what it is.
I agree with your observations about the process of writing. I am plotting in the shower, in the car and before I fall asleep. Sometimes the inspiration I find is gone by the time I can get to my computer or a piece of paper and sometimes not.
I’m glad yours is going well. I’ll check out your nano site.

]]> By: nancy http://nancywaldman.net/2007/11/16/winds-of-change/#comment-49 nancy Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:15:51 +0000 http://nancywaldman.net/2007/11/16/winds-of-change/#comment-49 Hi Gina and Eve. So lovely to have your comments and *Hellos. Gina, I know that some novelists have their story completely outlined and plotted beforehand, but from what I know, more do not. They usually, I assume, have more than I started with this month (no prep time!) but that doesn't mean you have to know everything. In fact, some of us feel that knowing it all ahead of time just might make for a boring book. If the writer is surprised by what happens in the book, then the reader is certain to be as well! Why not try a short story? They're easier to get published anyway. (Not that they are any easier to write, but at least the length is not so daunting.) Eve, I encourage you to try this next year. My first nanonovel---while not autobiographical---took huge swathes of stuff from my childhood. Sometimes it feels like writing two truths to one lie until you find the story. ~Nancy Hi Gina and Eve. So lovely to have your comments and *Hellos.

Gina, I know that some novelists have their story completely outlined and plotted beforehand, but from what I know, more do not. They usually, I assume, have more than I started with this month (no prep time!) but that doesn’t mean you have to know everything. In fact, some of us feel that knowing it all ahead of time just might make for a boring book. If the writer is surprised by what happens in the book, then the reader is certain to be as well! Why not try a short story? They’re easier to get published anyway. (Not that they are any easier to write, but at least the length is not so daunting.)

Eve, I encourage you to try this next year. My first nanonovel—while not autobiographical—took huge swathes of stuff from my childhood. Sometimes it feels like writing two truths to one lie until you find the story.

~Nancy

]]> By: Eve http://nancywaldman.net/2007/11/16/winds-of-change/#comment-48 Eve Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:06:37 +0000 http://nancywaldman.net/2007/11/16/winds-of-change/#comment-48 Nancy, thanks for dropping by my website. I am very excited about all the new people I've met and the sites of visited because of NaBloPoMo. I'm very glad I decided to do this. I am contemplating trying for a novel next year. I'm not very good at making up stories, so whatever I write will be taken from my experiences. I hope I can take that and turn it into novel form. Nancy, thanks for dropping by my website. I am very excited about all the new people I’ve met and the sites of visited because of NaBloPoMo. I’m very glad I decided to do this. I am contemplating trying for a novel next year. I’m not very good at making up stories, so whatever I write will be taken from my experiences. I hope I can take that and turn it into novel form.

]]> By: gvp http://nancywaldman.net/2007/11/16/winds-of-change/#comment-47 gvp Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:00:18 +0000 http://nancywaldman.net/2007/11/16/winds-of-change/#comment-47 It's interesting reading about the novel writing. I had always assumed that when people wrote a novel that they knew at the outset what would happen and it would just (I don't mean "just" really) be a case of writing it down using the right words. But from what you say, you don't actually know how your story is going to go, how it will end? Is that right? That actually sounds exciting. I still couldn't take on a novel though - just too big an enterprise. It’s interesting reading about the novel writing. I had always assumed that when people wrote a novel that they knew at the outset what would happen and it would just (I don’t mean “just” really) be a case of writing it down using the right words. But from what you say, you don’t actually know how your story is going to go, how it will end? Is that right? That actually sounds exciting. I still couldn’t take on a novel though - just too big an enterprise.

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