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I finished plotting my novel "Dreamcaster" today! It's a beautiful thing! I've got acts, sequences, chapters, and scenes all laid out. POV and subplots are indicated by color-coded sticky notes. My brainstorming notes are hanging from the bottom, and some inspirational reference photos are on the right.
I'm so excited to start writing! I've already got a couple chapters down. Maybe I'll post the first one on here at some point, but my first draft is going to totally suck, so we shall see.
For anyone interested, here is my collection of resources and tools I use to plot novels.
I've been published!
I've been published!
Check out my short story "The Case of a Portal on Mars" in this awesome anthology Pioneers & Pathfinders (Kindle edition) and you can get the paperback version here.
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Don't Plot with Tarot
Ever been curious about tarot's storytelling abilities? Or just curious about it in general? I've been learning it and relating it to the thing I know best: creativity and storytelling. I've gotta say, while I'm certainly not a mystic nor superstitious and I don't remotely believe tarot can tell the future, it has a lot to say about the human experience. Since storytelling is all about the human experience, I've found tarot has a lot of insight into storytelling and creativity in general.
I thought it would be a fun challenge to learn and practice by pulling two cards and connecting them in a humorous way that relates to storytelling and/or
Books to Make Your Life Better - 2019
I have an older journal with more books and videos that will make your life better here: Books that Will Make Your Life Better. Now I'm continuing to share the philosophies and information that make my life better in 2019, mainly those about living intentionally and creative mastery. Nearly all of them are available as audiobooks and should be available at your local library or on the free app Libby.
Enhance Your Creativity:
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success by Kerry Patterson (and others)
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the Wor
14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge (from 1936)
I thought this was interesting and useful, so I'm sharing it here:
14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge: A Timeless Guide from 1936
by Maria Popova
The quest for intellectual growth and self-improvement through education has occupied yesteryear’s luminaries like Bertrand Russell and modern-day thinkers like Sir Ken Robinson and Noam Chomsky. In 1936, at the zenith of the Great Depression, the prolific self-help guru and famous eccentric James T. Mangan published You Can Do Anything! — an enthusiastic and exclamation-heavy pep-manual for the art of living. Though Mangan was a positively kooky character — in 1948, he publicly clai
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Oh, wow! That looks great. 
How's the novel writing going?