by NatashaDeen | Dec 20, 2021 | Failure Wins, Life, Writing
Hello friends, If you’re looking to enroll in some writing classes for 2022, please see below for the classes I’ll be teaching.😊 ELLA* IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA COURSE 22-A6 – INTRODUCTION TO NOVEL WRITING Tuesday January 18...
by NatashaDeen | Feb 24, 2021 | Agents, Author Questions, Failure Wins, Writing
Follow Up for TWUC’s Strategies for Writing Discipline There were a few questions we didn’t get a chance to answer yesterday and I wanted to do a quick follow up for those folks, as well as add a couple of extra thoughts to the question of creating and...
by NatashaDeen | Feb 2, 2021 | Failure Wins, Life, Writing
I’ll be in the same spot as I’ve been the last two days”staring at my blank screen and wishing I hadn’t had to delete 58K and start again.
by NatashaDeen | Jun 1, 2020 | Failure Wins, Life, Writing
The month of May saw the Edmonton NaNoWriMo group and I participating in a fun challenge, could we pen 250 words/day on our manuscripts? It was great practice for the upcoming NaNoWriMo challenge in November, and given everything else going on in the world, a welcome...
by NatashaDeen | Apr 1, 2020 | Failure Wins, Uncategorized, Writing
Resources/Tips for Writing & Story-Telling How real life inspires novels (novel insight: Across the Floor) How real life can inspire fiction (novel insight: Guardian) Creating character & writing the unlikable protagonist (novel insight: Guardian)...
by NatashaDeen | Mar 13, 2020 | Agents, Author Questions, Failure Wins, Life, Writing
Thank you, again (and AGAIN!) for joining me for Forest Friday. What a great way to start the weekend. 🙂 I wanted to give you some visuals on what we talked about. PLOT SNAKE First, this is what a plot snake might look like: Red is in her room AND THEN her mom comes...
