Character Brainstorm! (Ficuary: Day 14)
Related to the Nix brainstorm I posted a few days ago. Should I ever write that book, this dude would be a part of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDdsCQFyJnI
View ArticleSetting! With a name! And a legit rain soundtrack! (Ficuary: Day 15)
So outside lighting on a bright white day of snow and rain...is nice. I mean, it's also freezing ass cold, but wow, the lighting. Did this one outside and included the actual soundtrack (sorry about...
View ArticleParanormal Series Mind Map (Ficuary: Day 16)
Unplanned, I thought I'd totally fall on my face, but indeed I had SHIT TO WRITE ABOUT. Series brainstorm. Allowing oneself to just brainstorm the fuck out of things one may never actually write is...
View Article#spoilers Mid-book Mind Map (Ficuary: Day 17)
Here there be #spoilers for a book I'm actually writing! The Lucy book, Burning Bright, is in need of a mid-book mind map, and here it is. Do not recommend if you are particularly sensitive to spoilers...
View ArticleBrainstorming the gay neighborhood! (Ficuary: Day 19)
Okay, second ever voiceover, this time with a real microphone and no rain. I could have gone on and on with this mind map but I ran out of space. Really love this neighborhood and the city it's part...
View ArticleFANTASY TIMELINE! (Ficuary: Day 20)
I'm super proud of this one, y'all. I made me a timeline. It's not super detailed because I don't have the space and haven't done all the generational maths, but it's definitely a good blueprint for...
View ArticleRomance Tropes! (Ficuary: Day 21)
It's getting harder to come up with topics for brainstorms! I'd also hoped to do more than mainly mind maps, but this daily activity thing is not for the faint of heart. This was a good one, but I...
View ArticleSaving the cat! (Ficuary: Day 23)
So there's a very famous beat sheet by the late Blake Snyder called "Save the Cat" (also some books I have always been too cheap to buy). The idea being that if your hero saves a cat in the first...
View ArticleMotives for murderrrrr! (Ficuary: Day 24)
Another fun one. I always end up thinking of so many more things after I'm done filming, but this was a good time even though it's probably incomplete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyByXHZp4zI
View ArticleTWO BLACK CATS! Excerpt!
CHAPTER ONE “Kittens!” I said to Nichelle and immediately dropped to the floor. “Look at them!” “You touch it, you bought it,” Mrs Murray said in a dire voice. “Now hush.” Her longtime companion, Mrs...
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