I got a lot of lovely feedback on my worldbuilding process, including some questions that inquired further about my writing process. So here are four more shortcuts I use for every project to help expedite creativity — either when you’re crunched for time, out of energy, or just mentally blocked. These probably won’t work for everyone, but hopefully you’ll be able to get one or two helpful items from the suggestions below.
But first, just making note that A BEGINNING AT THE END is currently free (from July to September 2020) for Amazon Prime / Kindle Unlimited members. It’s my post-pandemic book that came out in January 2020, so marketing it as COVID took over the world was…interesting. But I still really love that story and those characters, so if you’ve got one of those memberships I hope you’ll go download it now and see why Library Journal said it was “a brilliant, fragile path through the darkness” and Booklist said it was “an exciting and dramatic tale that shows the enduring power of hope and community amidst a crisis.”
Okay, back to the craft stuff!
1: Write In Acts
I usually subscribe to a 4-act structure, which is really another way of describing the standard 3-act structure of acts 1, 2A, 2B, and 3. This theoretically breaks into four fairly even sections. Now, in my…
