Teresa Granieri Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Hi Everyone, I'm a published romance writer (I write under Teresa Roblin). Just completed my third novel and have sent off my first script for analysis. I'm a plotter and wish to enter all my lovely info before I get down to the fun stuff of writing. Since I'm a visual learner, is there anyone living in the toronto area that would meet with me to pow=wow about writing and to walk me through Storyist?? It would be greatly appreciated, Teresa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marguerite Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Hi, Teresa: Welcome to the forums! And congratulations on your books. Please tell us more (within the limits of what you are comfortable sharing, of course). "Romance" is a very big field. Alas, I live nowhere near Toronto, or I'd be happy to help. But Steve has produced a number of videos that are quite useful—not as useful as hands-on, I know, but better than staring at a manual or a help file. Send him a PM, and he will let you know where to find them. I write historicals, some romantic, some not—none published so far, but I hope to have one finished by the fall and making the rounds. Storyist has been invaluable: it reminded me just last night of a minor character's child whom I had completely forgotten ever creating! Best, Marguerite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teresa Granieri Posted June 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Hi, Teresa: Welcome to the forums! And congratulations on your books. Please tell us more (within the limits of what you are comfortable sharing, of course). "Romance" is a very big field. Alas, I live nowhere near Toronto, or I'd be happy to help. But Steve has produced a number of videos that are quite useful—not as useful as hands-on, I know, but better than staring at a manual or a help file. Send him a PM, and he will let you know where to find them. I write historicals, some romantic, some not—none published so far, but I hope to have one finished by the fall and making the rounds. Storyist has been invaluable: it reminded me just last night of a minor character's child whom I had completely forgotten ever creating! Best, Marguerite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teresa Granieri Posted June 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Hi Marguerite, The first two were romantic comedies with a paranormal twist of magic. The third, (hopefully fourth and fifth) are werewolves. You said that storyist reminded you about a minor character - how did it do that? Tree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marguerite Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 I write descriptions in the character sheets—mostly when I first begin imagining a story but periodically throughout. I recently set up fields in the character sheets for Debra Dixon's Goal/Motivation/Conflict charts (not for this particular character, but for the primaries and secondaries—anyone who affects the plot). In any case, I was checking through all my character sheets as part of setting up the GMC fields and realized that I had given this character not only several problematic pregnancies (stillbirths, miscarriages, infant deaths: this is the 16th century) but a living daughter, who in her beastly husband's mind didn't count as a "child." And since that's a rather revealing detail about how little regard people in that time and place had for women, I decided to go back and weave a few sentences about it into an earlier scene. But if I hadn't written it down on the character sheet, I would have forgotten that the "childless" villain in fact had a daughter right there in plain sight. Storyist has saved my bacon on many more occasions than that, as I'm constantly forgetting things, but this is a particularly recent occurrence. best, Marguerite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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