by Denise Vega | October 27, 2016 | Writing Inspiration
So here I am, facing down NaNo in just five short days. I completed my plot outline, the structure of which I share below, and am going to be fleshing it out a bit more so I feel ready to jump in on November 1. Last week I shared the tools I was using to create an...
by Denise Vega | October 20, 2016 | Writing Inspiration
I’m not gonna lie, developing a plot outline has always been a bit of a turnoff. I knew a book outline wouldn’t be the Roman Numeral I thing, but it still sounded academic. Once I got over that, the whole idea scared me. I’d have to really think...
by Denise Vega | October 13, 2016 | Writing Inspiration
So digging into character last week really helped ideas for plot bubble up! Highly recommend that. Then I sent a doc to my critique group in advance of our September 30th meeting. In it, I gave them a very general summary of my idea–since it was still...
by Denise Vega | July 16, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
Piggybacking on last week’s Recoloring Blue Days, I wanted to talk about how to jumpstart your spark of creativity when you can barely see it or it’s gone out completely. Working through my grief over my mom’s death and the death of my friend,...
by Denise Vega | May 21, 2015 | Writing Inspiration
My mom left her body on May 7 around 6:20 pm and headed off into the Universe. I was there, along with my dad, my three sisters, my brother, my husband, brother-in-law and a few friends. On Monday, my sister, brother and I were with her, watching an old episode of...
