Nine Characters + One Butterfly = Chaos Theory
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on December 10, 2013 The Plot Thickens (A Little) In the last post I established that I thought my cast of characters was complete, but was it? They were all lined up neatly on the butterfly’s route (a teacher in Canada, a rock deejay in Virginia, a scientist …
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on December 7, 2013 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] Okay, by this time I had six main characters (a lot to juggle, I know), but with NaNoWriMo just weeks away at this point, my biggest worry was finding a way …
If a Butterfly’s Beginnings Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on October 4, 2014 In the previous post I talked about how NaNoWriMo was helpful to me because it forced me to attempt something I had never done before. I wasn’t thrilled with losing that first year, but I was happy that I had …
No Plot? No Problem! Again Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on October 4, 2014 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] The newest (Revised, Updated, and Expanded) version of Chris Baty’s wonderful book, No Plot? No Problem! has just been published [in 2014]. And I’m in it …