Comments on: Structure Part 4–Testing Your Idea–Is it Strong Enough to Make an Interesting Novel? https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/structure-part-4-testing-your-idea-is-it-strong-enough-to-make-an-interesting-novel/ Author, Blogger, Social Media Jedi Wed, 01 Jan 2014 09:02:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.6 By: prueitt https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/structure-part-4-testing-your-idea-is-it-strong-enough-to-make-an-interesting-novel/#comment-12846 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 09:02:01 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4842#comment-12846 …And there I was thinking I had a story. I’ve followed your blog Parts I – IV and, if you listen closely you can just make out the shrill saw-chomping sound of 42,000 of 62,000 words in my story screaming as they slide through the schredder. It was a mercy killing, trust me on that.

I knew a guy, a photographer who told me that if you are enjoying yourself at 2 AM numbering the backs of photos from a wedding you shot, then you know you are a photographer. Now I get that…

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]]> By: Your Health! « Kate Wood's Blog https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/structure-part-4-testing-your-idea-is-it-strong-enough-to-make-an-interesting-novel/#comment-12844 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:04:11 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4842#comment-12844 […] ~ Part Four: Testing Your Idea ~ Is It Strong Enough to Make an Interesting Novel?; […]

]]> By: Niki Savage https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/structure-part-4-testing-your-idea-is-it-strong-enough-to-make-an-interesting-novel/#comment-12843 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:43:44 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4842#comment-12843 Thanks Kristen, for a wonderful post. I’m a newbie to your blog and will check out the first three parts of the series. Regarding the writing of a rape scene, yep guilty as charged. But mine is well within context and comes near the end of the novel. My purpose was not so much to bring the heroine down low, but to represent the utter failure of the hero to achieve his goal. Sometimes I feel the protag should not succeed, and of course that leaves great fodder for a sequel. Whether I’m right or not, only time will tell, because it’s already out there.

]]> By: Jonathan Ham https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/structure-part-4-testing-your-idea-is-it-strong-enough-to-make-an-interesting-novel/#comment-12842 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:14:56 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4842#comment-12842 This is my first NaNoWriMo and my first novel. But I’ve read countless hundreds of books, both well written ones and ones that are a waste of paper. I think all of that reading and unconscious analysis has prepared me for this challenge. I just read this article and realized that I was already following LOCK (at least in my mind). Except that the major conflict so far is my MC trying to get home. I may have to retrocon a BBT who’s been there all along. Thanks for the great advice to new writers like myself!

]]> By: Structure Part 5–Keeping Focused & Nailing the Pitch–Understand Your “Seed Idea” « Kristen Lamb's Blog https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/structure-part-4-testing-your-idea-is-it-strong-enough-to-make-an-interesting-novel/#comment-12841 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:19:41 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4842#comment-12841 […] to plot, the Big Boss Troublemaker, and last week I gave you a tested method to make sure your core idea was solid enough to be the foundation for an entire […]

]]> By: Laura Rae Amos https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/structure-part-4-testing-your-idea-is-it-strong-enough-to-make-an-interesting-novel/#comment-12840 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:20:07 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4842#comment-12840 I honestly love it when you talk about literary fiction! You should teach an MFA! Seriously, all the books and professors will teach us about lovely prose, character development, themes, metaphor, and story arcs, but the way you put it in terms of real, living stories is so clear. Thank you! 🙂

]]> By: swordsoftheancients https://authorkristenlamb.com/2011/10/structure-part-4-testing-your-idea-is-it-strong-enough-to-make-an-interesting-novel/#comment-12839 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:42:08 +0000 http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/?p=4842#comment-12839 LOCKed and loaded for NaNoWriMo now. 😀 Thanks, Kristen!

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