Nine Characters + One Butterfly = Chaos Theory
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on January 5, 2013 Well, I do. Am I anal-retentive about it? I don’t think so, but I do think details are important, especially as a writer. So, why did I pick mist vs. fog as a topic? I’m a member of a writing/critique group, and we recently …
Prepping For the WLT Conference (2012) Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on May 8, 2014 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] Here’s the final pitch I used for the 2012 WLT Conference. Sorry, I still have to cut a few things. “The mainstream novel, If a …
Prepping For the WLT Conference (2011) Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on April 28, 2014 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] A month after that (3-13-2011), I had already made several changes (not necessarily for the better). This was the first pitch I tried to create …
Pitchapalooza (2011) Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on April 29, 2014 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] In the previous post, I showed you the pitch I used for my novel, If a Butterfly, at the 2012 Writers’ League of Texas’ Agents and Editors Conference. This …
If a Butterfly’s Final Pitch Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on April 22, 2014 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] My previous post was about starting to split a very long novel into two parts. I started working on doing that a few days ago, and …
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on April 15, 2014 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] My first completed novel, If a Butterfly, was EXTREMELY long. The first draft was well over 300,000 words, about 1,300 double-spaced 8.5 x 11 pages; but — in its defense — …
Originally posted on Michael Runs the Gamut on November 26, 2013 [Comments from 2021 are in italics, enclosed in square brackets, like this one.] The Very Beginning If a Butterfly was the first novel I finished. ** I started it in November of 2003, and didn’t finish it until October of 2012. This doesn’t mean …
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 …