Author: Ramona DeFelice Long

40 Days of 3 Questions: Day 37

by Ramona DeFelice Long

Welcome to 40 Days of 3 Questions!

For the next few weeks, meet here every morning with a notebook or document to answer three questions about writing, about your status quo as a writer, or about the writing life. You can answer briefly and go about your day, or you can use this as a warm up exercise before your regular writing schedule. Whatever works for you, works for me.

Day 37 Questions:

  1. What’s the most daring (to you) story you’ve ever written?
  2. Why is it so daring—subject, style, switch of genre?
  3. Do you think of yourself as a brave writer, a safe one, or in between?

You may post answers in comments or keep your thoughts private–your choice!

And here is today’s pretty picture:

horse
This daring horse is leaping across candles on my fireplace mantle.

40 Days of 3 Questions: Day 36

by Ramona DeFelice Long

Welcome to 40 Days of 3 Questions!

For the next few weeks, meet here every morning with a notebook or document to answer three questions about writing, about your status quo as a writer, or about the writing life. You can answer briefly and go about your day, or you can use this as a warm up exercise before your regular writing schedule. Whatever works for you, works for me.

Day 36 Questions:

  1. Do you feel like you have to reinvent the wheel every time you begin a story?
  2. What writing lesson have you learned that you never have to relearn?
  3. What writing lesson still gives you trouble?

You may post answers in comments or keep your thoughts private–your choice!

And here is today’s pretty picture:

owl in ice
Owl Who Slipped on Ice (I warned him it was slippery. Did he listen? No.)

40 Days of 3 Questions: Day 35

by Ramona DeFelice Long

Welcome to 40 Days of 3 Questions!

For the next few weeks, meet here every morning with a notebook or document to answer three questions about writing, about your status quo as a writer, or about the writing life. You can answer briefly and go about your day, or you can use this as a warm up exercise before your regular writing schedule. Whatever works for you, works for me.

Day 35 Questions:

  1. How do you know when your draft is final?
  2. How many revisions or editing passes do you make?
  3. Do you use critique partners, beta readers, editors to get to the final final draft?

You may post answers in comments or keep your thoughts private–your choice!

And here is today’s pretty picture:

hand shelf
If a hand is going to come out of your wall, shouldn’t it be holding a vase of flowers?

40 Days of 3 Questions – Day 34

by Ramona DeFelice Long

Welcome to 40 Days of 3 Questions!

For the next few weeks, meet here every morning with a notebook or document to answer three questions about writing, about your status quo as a writer, or about the writing life. You can answer briefly and go about your day, or you can use this as a warm up exercise before your regular writing schedule. Whatever works for you, works for me.

Day 34 Questions:

  1. Did you write a practice novel (one that taught you how to write)?
  2. Is that story in a drawer or did you make it workable?
  3. Is there a story you’ve written that you hope never sees the light of publication?

You may post answers in comments or keep your thoughts private–your choice!

And here is today’s pretty picture:

VCCA paper manuscript
Practice and Post-It notes- how to get it done!

40 Days of 3 Questions – Day 33

by Ramona DeFelice Long

Welcome to 40 Days of 3 Questions!

For the next few weeks, meet here every morning with a notebook or document to answer three questions about writing, about your status quo as a writer, or about the writing life. You can answer briefly and go about your day, or you can use this as a warm up exercise before your regular writing schedule. Whatever works for you, works for me.

Day 33 Questions:

  1. If you could only write one more story in the rest of your life, what would it be?
  2. Why that story?
  3. Why aren’t you writing it now?

You may post answers in comments or keep your thoughts private–your choice!

And here is today’s pretty picture:

keep calm write on
Every day.

40 Days of 3 Questions – Day 32

by Ramona DeFelice Long

Welcome to 40 Days of 3 Questions!

For the next few weeks, meet here every morning with a notebook or document to answer three questions about writing, about your status quo as a writer, or about the writing life. You can answer briefly and go about your day, or you can use this as a warm up exercise before your regular writing schedule. Whatever works for you, works for me.

Day 32 Questions:

  1. Apart from your protagonist, could you kill off every other character in your current project?
  2. If you had to do a Game of Thrones type slaughter, which killed-off character would most hurt you?
  3. Which killed-off character do you think would most hurt your readers?

You may post answers in comments or keep your thoughts private–your choice!

And here is today’s pretty picture:

dead toothpick guy
RIP, toothpick holder guy.

 

 

40 Days of 3 Questions – Day 31

by Ramona DeFelice Long

Welcome to 40 Days of 3 Questions!

For the next few weeks, meet here every morning with a notebook or document to answer three questions about writing, about your status quo as a writer, or about the writing life. You can answer briefly and go about your day, or you can use this as a warm up exercise before your regular writing schedule. Whatever works for you, works for me.

Day 31 Questions:

  1. Do you think about theme when you write a story?
  2. Do you start with a theme in mind or does it emerge as you write?
  3. Is there a theme you write about over and over?

You may post answers in comments or keep your thoughts private–your choice!

And here is today’s pretty picture:

turtle-in-north-east.jpg
What theme does this chained up (fake) turtle say to you? Anger? Revenge? Humiliation? The fight to freedom? Please don’t steal me?

40 Days of 3 Questions – Day 30

by Ramona DeFelice Long

Welcome to 40 Days of 3 Questions!

For the next few weeks, meet here every morning with a notebook or document to answer three questions about writing, about your status quo as a writer, or about the writing life. You can answer briefly and go about your day, or you can use this as a warm up exercise before your regular writing schedule. Whatever works for you, works for me.

Day 30 Questions:

  1. What book most influenced you as a reader?
  2. Does that book influence you are a writer?
  3. How and why?

You may post answers in comments or keep your thoughts private–your choice!

And here is today’s pretty picture:

daffodils
Spring is coming soon!

 

40 Days of 3 Questions – Day 29

by Ramona DeFelice Long

Welcome to 40 Days of 3 Questions!

For the next few weeks, meet here every morning with a notebook or document to answer three questions about writing, about your status quo as a writer, or about the writing life. You can answer briefly and go about your day, or you can use this as a warm up exercise before your regular writing schedule. Whatever works for you, works for me.

Day 29 Questions:

  1. How much physical descriptions of characters do you generally include?
  2. As a reader, do you like characters to be described head to toe, the basics, or mostly left for you to imagine?
  3. In your current project, what actor(s) do you imagine in the role(s) of your primary characters?

You may post answers in comments or keep your thoughts private–your choice!

And here is today’s pretty picture:

jane-ausen-finger-puppet.gif
Jane Austen finger puppet.

 

40 Days of 3 Questions – Day 28

by Ramona DeFelice Long

Welcome to 40 Days of 3 Questions!

For the next few weeks, meet here every morning with a notebook or document to answer three questions about writing, about your status quo as a writer, or about the writing life. You can answer briefly and go about your day, or you can use this as a warm up exercise before your regular writing schedule. Whatever works for you, works for me.

Day 28 Questions:

  1. What is your favorite type of scene to write?
  2. What is your least favorite?
  3. What do you like, and not like, about writing these scenes?

You may post answers in comments or keep your thoughts private–your choice!

And here is today’s pretty picture:

shredded
Some scenes end up in this file.