Happy Tender Tuesday. This Is For Any Of Your OCs. How Did Your OC Meet Their Romantic Partner(s)? Was

Happy Tender Tuesday. This is for any of your OCs. How did your OC meet their romantic partner(s)? Was it love at first sight?

Oh gosh! Ironically, most of works don't involve romantic partnerships, but one of the first scripts I wrote had a couple as the main characters.

In The Atlas, Nichole and Isa ended up meeting through their friends at university and actually disliked each other. Nichole found Isa too stubborn and bull-headed while Isa found Nichole too quiet and reserved, so when the two ended up stuck together for Thanksgiving, it was a lot of awkward silence. They ended up bonding after Isa burnt the turkey and starting dating pretty quickly after that.

Of course, all their friends were shocked they were together and secretly thought they'd break up, but the two got married a year after graduation.

When the story starts, it's been almost 20 years and boy has their marriage felt it. It's not that they don't love each other, but it seems as if some of their issues from when they met haven't really gone away but just been buried deep down.

@bardic-tales

Slight travel blog/tip moment: always put things in one place and then KEEP THEM THERE otherwise you may or may not have a heart attack when you can't find important documents

As someone who wants to be a tv screenwriter, I write pilots. This means I don't necessarily need to have an ending in mind. I normally know where it should go, but it's never set in stone.

Trying to write a novel is just spinning my head in all directions since it means I need to actually have an ending that is complete, done, and dusted.

That's wild.

How to get the most out of editing

              I think most of you know by now that I give feedback on your work for free. I’m also very busy and get a lot of requests, so often people have to wait a while before I’m able to get to their work. So, it’s  worth your while to make it worth your while! Here’s how to get the most out of (any) editing.

1. Give them your “perfect” version

Okay it doesn’t actually have to be perfect, but you shouldn’t have any issues in your manuscript that you’re aware of and know how to fix. It’s not very helpful for anyone to have an editor comment on an issue you already know about. However, if there’s anything you’re aware of but you’re really not sure how to fix, you can definitely ask your editor!

2. Come with purposeful questions

You should know before you send off your work the type of feedback you’re looking for, and some questions you have for your editor. Stray away from the “English class” type questions and focus more on what answers would actually help you in writing another draft. I considered asking my beta readers what title they’d give my piece because I was super curious and didn’t really like my title, but in the end I crossed out that question because as much as I’d like to know, the title really didn’t matter—I had more important things to ask them.

See a list of questions you could potentially ask here.

3. Be open to receiving feedback

As perfect and wonderful as you think your piece is, there probably is still room for improvement that you aren’t seeing. Don’t be surprised when your editor gets back to you and doesn’t just say “good job, everything is perfect.” Nick’s manuscript in New Girl is the one exception!

When you do get your feedback, don’t respond right away—let it process until you can seriously consider each note. Ultimately, what you do with your notes is up to you, but there’s no need to argue or try to explain things to your editor.

“It is not our business to set up prohibitions, but to arrive at conventions… In logic, there are no morals.”

— Rudolf Carnap, The Logical Syntax of Language

Creator's Club: Meet the Character / Project

For this week, I'd like to talk about two characters if that's all possible? Lol! :)

One:

This is Mariah. She is a headstrong and intelligent woman who finds herself among thousands of innocent men, women and children evacuated to the United States after an unknown pathogen breaks out in Harran on January 27th, 2017. After learning that her daughter, Libby, is still alive, she is determined to go above and beyond to bring her home ... even whilst coping with a visceral trauma and a cancer diagnosis...

Two:

This is Kyle. He is a young man who's been hired by the Global Relief Effort agency to locate a secret file in the Harran quarantine. After taking up residence in the Tower and forming relationships with Libby, Jade, Rahim and Brecken; he realises that he has to make a decision on where his loyalties lie...

I find that both of these characters are a huge part of Libby's life and that her relationships with them could help shape her into the young woman that she is in Part III. :)

Tagging: @bardic-tales (If any of my Creator's Club mutuals would like to be added, please say!).