Writer's Life

Writer's Life · 05 December 2023

Creating Maps

Have you ever worked on your story and forgotten the name of a specific street? And then you had to read back through the pages until you found it again? Do you have lists and notebooks on your desk or in Scrivener with various locations names? Have you ever wondered if having a map would help you with your worldbuilding process? Well, I have. And I've lost countless hours already with map creation. Partly because it's fun and I tend to get lost in it. Partly because I am not very good at it...

Writing Brave

Today, I attended a live webinar with the lovely Brooke Adams Law and I wanted to tell you a bit about what I took away from it. I heard Brooke during the Escape The Plot Forest Summit this year. She talked an hour about what it meant to be an intuitive writer and her talk had been a real relieve for me. When I started writing my novel in earnest, I wanted to do it RIGHT. By the book. In real life, I am a very organised person. I am analyst, I am a list maker, I am a planner. Naturally, I...