I’ll be writing about how I’m using GMC, which I got from GMC: Goal, Motivation and Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction by Debra Dixon (Clean link) I’ve begun working on my novel again, and recently had a breakthrough because of an app I found online that utilizes Dixon’s GMC. I dumped what I… Read More A Day in the Life of a Writer: Back to GMC
Here’s what happened when I released my stubborn hold on who I thought my characters were. I asked my heroine why she didn’t want to run the family gun shop. (Yes, I talked to her. I was a little cautious about it because the notion’s kinda kooky, and I really didn’t want my kids to… Read More Using GMC: Diana
I forgot to mention that I’ve been working on the same pages for several months. Not every day, just for my monthly assignments. I got them honed to bland acceptability, and realized yesterday that I will have to trash them all. I was kinda proud of those pretty words and at least two of the… Read More A day in the life of a writer: trashing pages
I went to Debra Dixon‘s talk at the monthly meeting of San Diego’s chapter of RWA. My novel has been stuck in chapter one because I haven’t properly charted out the GMC of the characters. Today I’m charting three characters: hero: Mark heroine: Diana heroine’s mother: Betsy. GMC stands for Goal, Motivation, and Conflict. Dixon… Read More A day in the life of a writer: Charting GMC