Tag: NaNoWriMo

• What Is Camp NaNo WriMoWriMo?

  

  If you are writer who’s even mildly active on social media then you might have heard about the NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. But what about Camp NaNoWriMo? Camp NaNoWriMo is a spinoff of NaNoWriMo which you can customise as per your own needs. In their own words: Camp NaNoWriMo is your next, great…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  April 7, 2021

  Novel Writing Basics, Writing

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• October Webinars

  

  Hello, dear writers and readers. I am here with some exciting as hell news! I have two upcoming Webinars! Read on to find the details, timings and some extra exciting stuff! Webinar #4: Decoding Horror Genre For Writers In this Webinar I will be covering the following topics: What is Horror Fiction – The basics…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  October 20, 2020

  Webinar

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• 10 Ways To Prepare For NaNoWriMo 2020

  

  NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month is around the corner and I am really looking forward to it particularly this year because of the entire lockdown situation. I simply cannot wait to get back to one of my story’s draft and start writing again motivated by all the NaNo energy on my social media feeds!…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  October 9, 2020

  Writing

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• NaNoWriMo 2019 – Update

  

  Hello, guys (After a long, long time!) I am here to share a quick update about my 2019 NaNoWriMo progress. For this year’s I am aiming to complete the 7th draft of Sinister Town and so far, i.e., in 15 days, I have written 29,132 words. I am trying to finish this draft this month…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  November 16, 2019

  Writing

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• Character Profile Sheets (CPS) – Part 2

  

  Character Profile Sheets are a great literary tool that help you in profiling your characters, especially the main characters of your story. They not only help you in being consistent with your character’s traits throughout your story or manuscript but also help a great deal in creating as well as painting the character arc you…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  June 8, 2019

  Novel Writing Basics, Podcasts, Vlog, Writing

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• The 4-Act-Structure: Introduction

  

    As almost all the plotters would swear by, outlining a story helps a writer greatly in making sense of the story for the readers. We, as writers, know what our story is and how it plays out, the difficult bit is to put in into words in a systematic way and have it make sense…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  January 21, 2019

  Novel Writing Basics, Plotting, Writing

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• Camp NaNoWriMo April’18

  

  Hello world, I’m back from yet another break! Like every year since 2014, I’m participating in Camp NaNoWriMo April’18. For this month I don’t have a lot planned out, but just a basic idea of what needs to be done. I’m mainly going to go for 2 things this time – sorting out the ending…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  April 2, 2018

  Writing

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• Naming The Writer’s Unconscious – A Little Girl And Her Puppy

  

  I always read craft books not once, but several times. I guess that’s the best way to really get the techniques and the wisdom they have to offer. Lately, I’ve been re-reading Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott and came across a concept, more like a paragraph or two, where author Lamott mentions about naming the unconscious: “My…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  April 9, 2017

  Writing

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• Point Of Views (POVs)

  

  Point Of View, casually known as POV, is one of  the most important literary devices that is used in fiction writing. Determining the perspective from which the story is told is often the making or the breaking point of a novel. If you make a wrong decision, your readers will be highly disappointed due to…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  September 16, 2016

  Writing

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• Freewriting – Everything You Need To Know

  

  Freewriting is a very important prewriting technique that not only helps you to get over your writer’s block, but also to tap into your sub-conscience mind and see what all ideas and stories are hiding there. Most of the times, we get stuck while writing a story, or an article, and simply don’t know what…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  August 3, 2016

  Podcasts, Writing

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• All About First Drafts

  

  A First Draft is one of the most basic entities of fiction-writing and it lays the basic foundation of a novel. If you’re a writer then you probably might have come across this term more than a thousand times already, and if not then you’ve come to the right place. Just for the sake of…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  July 15, 2016

  Writing

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• Editing Vs Revising

  

  We all are aware of what revising a draft means and what it means to get your manuscript edited, but very few writers really know the real difference between the two. If you’ll ask around, the most common answer is that what we do ourselves is revising and what an editor does is editing. But…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  April 16, 2016

  Writing

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• My New WIP- Sinister Town

  

  Exactly a year before, Deceived was only an idea in my head which kept on brewing constantly until I finally decided to get it on paper. And today here I am with Deceived getting published and another book’s first draft in hand. This sure has been one hell of a year for me. Let me…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  March 4, 2016

  My Books, Writing

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• The 3-Act Structure: In Detail

  

  In order to utilize the 3-Act Structure efficiently, there is a need for a systematic sequence of elements to be followed that carries the story forward.  In the 3-Act Structure, each act has some particular story moves and by following these particular set of acts, you can rest easy that there will be no place…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  February 1, 2016

  Writing

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• NaNoWriMo 2015

  Hello, guy! I’m here for a quick update on my writing (and also because I forgot to mention it before.) Last month I participated in NaNoWriMo 2015 and successfully completed it with a just-barely-there 52K. 😀 I was planning to write the first draft for my second novel, Sinister Town, for this year’s NaNo, but…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  December 7, 2015

  Writing

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• 5 Keys To Writing 50K Words In 30 Days

  

  To help other writers who are struggling to get those dreaded 50K words done this NaNoWriMo, I’ve come up with 5 keys that are the most important factors for cracking NaNoWriMo and even to write a good amount of words daily even after NaNo.

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  October 28, 2015

  Writing

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• Converting Files to E-Books

  

  I know firsthand how irritating it can be after you’ve finished your MS and you don’t know how to convert it into a readable e-book format. It is really annoying to not be able to read your precious book on your e-reader after all the handwork you’ve put in it. After months (or years) of…

  Heena R. Pardeshi

  October 11, 2015

  Writing

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