by Scintilla Studio | Sep 12, 2019 | Blog, Scintilla Method, Step 2
Many of the resources you use to create are online, like reference photos or tutorials. But they’re next to a lot of things that distract you, like news feeds or notifications. This can be difficult, because all the time spent on an upvote, stream, or swipe is time...
by Scintilla Studio | Jan 19, 2019 | Blog, Music, Step 3
Last year I took the February Album Writing Month (FAWM) challenge to write songs with a couple of friends. Within a few desparate weeks, we had recorded our first EP as 5% Savvy. We made a lot of good memories – evenings packing a wobbly electric drum set into...
by Seth Brummer | Dec 27, 2018 | Blog, Step 3, Storytelling
Editor’s Note: Seth texted me at 1:33 p.m. Mountain Time on November 30 with the good news: “I just hit 50k” This has been an experience I never thought myself capable of, and yet here I am, having written fifty-thousand words in thirty days. In that sense, I’ve...
by Seth Brummer | Nov 24, 2018 | Blog, Step 3, Storytelling
If you’ve been a writer for any length of time, you’ve probably heard the adage “kill your darlings.” It means you should never get so attached to things in your story that you aren’t willing to cut them out. But how much of a difference does that really make? Here we...
by Seth Brummer | Nov 16, 2018 | Blog, Step 3, Storytelling
“Show, don’t tell” are possibly the most troublesome three words writers have to deal with. And yet, if done well, those three words will make our NaNoWriMo stories resonate with our readers like nothing else can. We’re halfway through NaNoWriMo with Seth and...
by Seth Brummer | Nov 8, 2018 | Blog, Step 3, Storytelling, Uncategorized
We writers are often told to “write what we know,” which usually means that we should write based on personal experiences. But how does that work when you’re writing a medieval fantasy story? Or a historical fiction piece set in 1885? Welcome to Week Two of National...
