Episode #37: NaNoWriMo 2019... Part Four

Not to give anything away but... Jenni finished her book! Yes, find out how if feels to write 50,000 words in 30 days and only slightly lose your mind. Join us for the final stretch, as tensions are high and time is running out.

If you're writing a novel this month for NaNoWriMo, you can follow Jenni as JenniPOW at NaNoWriMo

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Episode #36: NaNoWriMo 2019... Part Three

It's week three of NaNoWriMo and it's full on writing time for Jen.

If you're writing a novel this month for NaNoWriMo, you can follow Jenni as JenniPOW at NaNoWriMo

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Episode #30: More Games to Help Character Development

This episode Marc and Jenni look at games and tips to help your character development.

Just like Mary Poppins (Disney version, not the PL Travers version) we are going to sprinkle some fun into the ways you can develop your characters.




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You want to make characters that people believe in and care for, so how can you create depth for the personalities that make up your novel or creative writing piece? Jenni and Marc look at the different games and situations that you can use with your characters to make them well rounded, interesting people that your readers want to get excited about.

Whether it’s moral dilemmas, practical spreadsheets, jumping off points, interesting questions or suggestions to push your characters forward, we cover it all. We had two years pretending to be trees in Theatre Studies A Level so we know characterization. Come and join us on our journey!

Also this episode:

• We steal a whole episode of The Good Place
• Marc is very stern with himself about tangenting
• We rate the attractiveness of various Robin Hoods
• Sexy foxes!
• Introducing improvisation into your life in a safe space.
• Put the TV on and... TELLY TIME!

This episode we looked at:
The Readsy Website
FuckYeahCharacterDevelopment


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Mini NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo is among us! Even if you have trouble pronouncing it, like we do, if you're a writer you have probably come across National Novel Writing Month. This month long initiative aims to get writers creating an entire 50,000 word novel over the month of November.

While you don't write your novel on the NaNoWriMo site, you do update your word count, get trophies and, if you get to the 50,000 word target, you upload your novel to the site to win (we are not sure what you win, apart from the sense of satisfaction and the fact that you've just written a novel in a month - go you!).

We can't take part in NaNoWriMo this month, mainly because we're already 20,000 odd words through our book and also because we can't commit to such massive word count.

However, we CAN commit to our own MiniNaNoWriMo! We've decided to write a MASSIVE 5,000 words (between us!) over November.

Will we do it? Will we fall at the first hurdle? How will we keep our motivation going? It's taken us years to get to the 20,000 point, so there is no guarantees we won't find ourself procrastinating at any point possible.

There's a lot of great tips, tricks and resources, both on the NaNoWriMo site and elsewhere, that we will be sharing throughout the month.

We'll keep you updated on our MiniNaNoWriMo word count on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus

Are you doing your own NaNoWriMo? Or even a MiniNaNoWriMo? Let us know and share your journey!

Episode #3: Games to Help Character Development

Hello to you, dear POWer listeners,

It's us again, with another episode from the Proscrastinate or Write HQ. We play a little game in this episode and eva-reh-thang...

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or listen directly here...



Show notes:
We are Jenni and Marc. We have been friends for years. We’re writing a book…here’s the latest update on our writing adventure

This episode includes the following discussions:
- Writing to conquer phobias
- What we’ve been reading: The Decision (Penny Vincenzi), Secrets of a Happy Marriage (Kathy Kelly) and Tales From the Dance Floor (Craig Revel Horwood...pssst this title is currently FREE on amazon kindle unlimited) ...Craigy boy...oh yeah!
- We explore another character of ours, Niamh (and compare her to Italian biscuits)
- We talk about resources online to support writers, such as wrightingwords.com
- We play a game to help get to know our characters, using this resource specifically: wrightingwords.com/writing-starters << This link is also great for anyone with Writer's Block!

Things we’ve learnt in this episode:
- Drinking and podcasting isn’t always a good combo, upon closer research, it turns out that Ben Price went into Coronation Street in 2009, not this year …who knew?
- If you like listening to us, you can even buy us a beer, if you fancy.

Today’s management meeting is supported by red, red wiiiine.

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Music:
"Clap Your Hands" by Scott Holmes

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Cheers,
Jen and Marc xx

Episode #2: Defining A Character

Hey lovely podcast listeners,

We're back with another Procrastinate of Write episode, in which we flesh out one of the characters in our story.
You can find our latest episode on iTunes. Yay!
or listen directly here...



Show notes:
We are Jenni and Marc. We have been friends for years. We’re writing a book…and we finally got round to publishing our second podcast.

This episode’s discussions include:
- What we’ve been up to since we last podded
- More podcasts we would like to share: Stories Unbound and Attitude Heroes.
- What we’re reading right now: Varjak Paw and The Shortest History of Europe
- What we’re watching: Game of Thrones (spoiler alert) and Stranger Things
- How far we’ve got with our writing and how we actually write, using pbworks.com
- We delve into one of our characters, Ben.
- How do other writers, write?
- What things are inspiring us, right now?
- Has the remake of Beauty and the Beast ruined the characters?

We’d like to apologise for the little crackly bits throughout this episode. Eeek. Sorry :(

Today’s episode is sponsored by real (Yorkshire) ale

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Music:
"Clap Your Hands" by Scott Holmes
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