This was super helpful. I do the snippet exercise for scenes, and that helps greatly (esp. when I feel the weight and anxiety of a blank page), and after amassing a certain amount, I'll then move the to a scene and realize I've 3/4 of the way there. I've done snippets with a character or two (and there's always the workshop exercise of putting your characters in specific scenes and seeing how they react, which feels like too much work), but I've never thought about it as a way to flesh out all my characters. This is immensely helpful now as I'm trying to write 4-5 new characters into this story and have no idea how to either make them serve the scene / story, or give them all unique voices. Thank you!
I like the approach. I have been struggling with starting my novel. I have the idea, but starting out was stuck at the brainstorming stage. I loved the idea of the zero draft, and in this video I think I am starting to see clearer. I needed this. I don't think I'll be stuck for too long now. Thanks a lot!
This was super helpful. I do the snippet exercise for scenes, and that helps greatly (esp. when I feel the weight and anxiety of a blank page), and after amassing a certain amount, I'll then move the to a scene and realize I've 3/4 of the way there. I've done snippets with a character or two (and there's always the workshop exercise of putting your characters in specific scenes and seeing how they react, which feels like too much work), but I've never thought about it as a way to flesh out all my characters. This is immensely helpful now as I'm trying to write 4-5 new characters into this story and have no idea how to either make them serve the scene / story, or give them all unique voices. Thank you!
Yeah it is different. Makes writing the Zero Draft less intimidating. It seems that I am doing snipetts already ;P thank you for this video.
I like the approach. I have been struggling with starting my novel. I have the idea, but starting out was stuck at the brainstorming stage. I loved the idea of the zero draft, and in this video I think I am starting to see clearer. I needed this. I don't think I'll be stuck for too long now.
Thanks a lot!
Could you maybe do a video about the two-novel analysis process? Seems interesting and with lots of useful potential 😊.
I loved this video, it’s very helpful! Would be great if you could add some examples to demonstrate the points. Thanks 😊
You've got to tell us the names of those two books!
So helpful!
Which were the two books?
What are on the wall stickies?
Did it help your first draft?