Category: Writing Workshop

So how did that go?

I haven’t fully realized my self-promise to write all 12 episodes of the second season of Mrs. Carrington. But I’ve drafted 11! So that makes me quite happy. Plus, I’ve written two short plays and, if everything goes well, one will soon premiere in a Madrid venue. But I don’t want to jump ahead (further details soon) or steal the limelight from all you nanowriters who’ve poured fifty-odd thousand words on their keyboards, with all the strokes (hopefully keystrokes rather than heartstrokes) that that that means. I must congratulate my dear Günther, adhara, Imgrot and Rain Michael for their succesful efforts, though there is no better reward than the creature itself that they cradle in their trembling hands. They still have to raise her, yes, but the birth is done!

So where else are congratulations due? How did it go for you?

Your life in a flash

Today’s links appeal to writers looking for new approaches to videogame narration, but also for all those nanowriters in need of word-count detox for five minutes.

Spectre (Mac/PC)
But That Was Yesterday (Flash)

Congratulations, Cos!

Some people are talking against NaNoWriMo, and they’re even -partially- right, and reading them is worth the while. But there are others, like mi friend Cos, who speak in favour:

I don’t think I’ve ever -except perhaps when I was twelve or thirteen- written so much about a single story, not to mention with such regularity. Sometimes I can’t believe I’m really doing this, simply because I decided myself uncapable a long time ago. My pride beats fast within my chest and it seems strange that some people are not feeling it – that they are not creating a story right now and still live in peace, like they’re not missing a thing – or that they don’t feel so proud of me that they have the urge to talk about it and boast. This is so important for me, it’s always been so important for me, that it seems strange that people wouldn’t congratulate me like it’s my birthday or one of those events when it’s nice to cheer up and celebrate.

Beautiful, huh? Congratulations, Cos!

(Español) Revistas literarias

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How’s your nano going?

I’ve been quiet lately, busy fine-tuning a novel, writing the second season of Mrs. Carrington and wondering -as if I didn’t have enough- what to write for my friends at Teatro Por Dinero, a new cultural venue in Madrid that I heartily recommend.

My personal NaNoWriMo challenge this year has been, instead of the 50,000 words, to write the whole second season of Mrs. Carrington in these 30 days -perhaps not in a ready-to-shoot, finalised script, but at least with a draft for every one of the 12 episodes. So far I’m still battling the treatment, but at least it’s a long treatment with some fundamental dialogue and action sequences already rolled out to a level of detail that should make things very easy when the time comes to expand each of those pages onto a 5-6 page draft.

We’re approaching the end of the first half now, so tell me, how are things going? Which topic are you writing about? And how is your word count? Are those 25,000 getting any closer?

The writer, taking a break, wonders whether to order pizza or Chinese.

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