Looking for a name for a fictional sports team that has a role in your story? Seeking the name of a real high school team or school nickname? You’ll want to visit the website High School Nicknames. On this site, you can find: • Many, many high school team names, organized alphabetically (did you know [...]
Archive for November, 2009
NaNoWriMo: Go, Team, Go!
Posted in NaNoWriMo, Online Research, tagged characterization, writing on November 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
NaNoWriMo: Valuable Sources for Character Names
Posted in Character, Inspiration, NaNoWriMo, Online Research, tagged writing on November 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I ran across some useful sources for character names today that I’d like to share. • Native American names at Writing Adolescent Fiction/Character Names/Native American but be sure to carefully distinguish tribe-appropriate names. • Wikipedia Category: Surnames a listing of a large number of surnames that can be searched by the first two letters • [...]
NaNoWriMo: Text, Story, Fabula
Posted in NaNoWriMo, tagged narrative, story, writing on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mieke Bal in Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative distinguishes between text, story, and fabula as a way of understanding narrative. What do these term mean and what import do they have for NaNoWriMo? In Bal’s explication, fabula refers to the chronological sequence of events that underlies the narrative. Story refers to the way [...]
NaNoWriMo Establishing Place and Considering Narration
Posted in NaNoWriMo, tagged Narration, setting, writing on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After beginning chapter 6 of my NaNoWriMo novel yesterday, I stopped short and read chapters 1-5 all together. There is—intentionally—a great deal of dialogue. The action of this novel is driven by communication. But I realized that in focusing on that element of the story, I had not yet given sufficient attention to establishing place: [...]
NaNoWriMo Surprises
Posted in NaNoWriMo on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Even though I’ve been planning my NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) story—a YA and up mixed-genre fictional quintology—since 2005, in my first 10,000 words, I’ve already met some surprises: I didn’t know that the story was going to have any significant part, let alone begin, in this world, and the addition of a major setting [...]
NaNoWriMo First Timer
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Read my comments on being a NaNoWriMo newbie on Mike Geffner’s Blog, Mike’s Writing Workshop and Newsletter.
New post at my Amazon Author’s Page
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve just added a blog post titled “Amazon and Authorship Credit” at my AmazonCentral page. It discusses how the Amazon.com site sometimes blurs the roles of those associated with making a book, for example, author and illustrator. Being both an author and illustrator, I can speak to the issue from several different perspectives.
