Thinking Sideways has taken up quite a bit of my time and surprise, surprise I'm still managing to fall behind.
I'm working on Lesson Five right now. I'm suppossed to be learning all the critical info about my protagonist, antagonist, setting, conflict and twists. I got through my protagonist rather quickly, but I am lost now. It has come to my attention I am unsure who the biggest antagonist in the story is. So now I am asking myself questions and waiting for answers. This lesson is very important for the development of my story, I can't just skip it. Hopefully, I come up with something soon.
Besides my issues with Lesson Five I am still in love with this course. There is so much helpful material I am going through. I know I will be using many of these tools for my other writing projects. And I know that because of this course my writing is maturing.
Talking to other students in the forums has turned out to be incredibly helpful. When I have gone off track they are there to point me in the right direction. They give my examples of how they went through the lesson.
One piece of advice I can give is to never neglect your characters, the conflicts, twists and the setting in the planning stages of writing. If you don't you may be setting yourself up for failure, like I did in the past.
That's it for today. Next time I'll be ranting about my next lesson I'm sure.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
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