For reasons beyond my understanding, my brain likes inventing personas—everything from wacky facades to keep small children entertained to personalities projected onto passersby. Everyone has a story, after all.
For this phase, I found myself face to face with that most odious and onerous of literary formats: the synopsis.
Sometimes hearing voices can be a good thing—especially if you’re an author.
Welcome back to my mad experiment, where I attempt to create a novel using a ten-step approach to plotting, character development, and more.
Creating characters has always been my favorite aspect of storytelling, so when I saw that Step 3 of the Snowflake Method was making the major characters, I was eager to dive in.
The second step of the Snowflake Method is to expand the single sentence into a full paragraph. That seemed easier than Step 1, but I still found excuses to procrastinate.
Step one of the Snowflake Method is writing a one-sentence summary of your novel. In about an hour. GULP!
Even as Magic’s Daughter is being released, chapter by chapter, on the Radish app, I’ve been dedicating copious pockets of time to planning my next book. Back in June, I hinted about this next project—code name: Sir Larpsalot.
As of today, the first few chapters of Magic’s Daughter, my new YA fantasy novel, are available on Radish, an app that specializes in serial fiction.
Selena Nelesti wants nothing to do with her noble name. While her mother schemes to find her a highborn husband, young Selena escapes into her studies, learning about the warriors and wizards who shaped the world.