Nic pulled himself from the car and tried to wake up. The cold air helped, but not much. Funny. Nic–every member of the Special Forces for that matter–was trained to take combat naps. It was a useful ability to put yourself into deep sleep for ten or fifteen minutes at a time and come out…
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DEEP POV Lesson 4 – Filtering Words
Filtering words? What’s that? Michael R. Emmert, on the Scribophile blog, says, “To picture what filtering is, picture sea sand being poured through a screen into a bucket. The screen removes any larger objects as the sand is poured. Filtering eliminates pieces, and leaves an altered product. In fiction, the concept of filtering is similar:…
Pushing Through The Middle: Tips for the NaNoWriMo Crowd and Other First Drafters
by Lori DeBoer If you are hitting your daily word count (about 1,666) for National Novel Writing Month, by the time this post is published you’ll be nearly about halfway through your 50,000-word goal and sailing into the middle stretch of your novel. This is where the story gets complicated. The middle passage is the…