I was pleased to contribute a guest post to Beth Barany’s site, the Writer’s Fun Zone. It’s an incredible site with guest articles, podcasts, workshops, write-ins, and much more. Beth is a great support to writers. There’s a lot of solid advice about publishing, craft, and book marketing. But I went ahead and talked about my crazy, experimental writing process.
A little taste…
“Some of us face down deadlines. Some of us yearn for regular writing output. And some of us just fear staring at a blank page. In any case, we’d all appreciate a writing process that paves a smooth path to productivity. Even just to spit out that messy first draft. I’ve used such a method writing fiction for years. I don’t swear by the specifics of my method for everybody, but once I present it, my point is for you to create a similar one for your needs.”
The article focuses on a chart I use to generate everything I need for each chapter. Some of the items on the chart are hidden structures that appear throughout The Reincarnation Chronicles.
“I inherited this crazy notion from my days as a modern composer; a lot of us music geeks love hidden structures… For me, it’s a game, nothing necessary for the casual reader to comprehend, but enormously useful to me in developing material for the chapter.”
The article provides examples from my arcane process, some related to the reincarnation lifetimes and their karmic events. I hope it shows both the joy I have working with experimental form and the usefulness it provides me applying it practically.
Check it out here.
For more on how musical form can influence writing, check out this post.
For more information and ideas from my fantasy series, 1001, The Reincarnation Chronicles SEE FOOTER.