Recent content by Andrew Parker

One more thought that you may be able to comment on...I find that my creativity/stream of though is hampered when I try these tools or methodologies. When I just "write", sometimes on yellow pad, it comes out easier. Thus the editing process or next step after free writing is my bottleneck to...

Coming of age stories using satire and tragic comedy in short story format. Also have several poems that I am organizing into a small book...about 30 so far. During the process I bounced between character and scene development. I found a model called "snowflake method" (lol) that worked for...

Yup...this site seems to have more seasoned published folks here. I'm just starting out.

Hi! I follow this site all the time. I've been writing consistently for almost a year now and need to sort thru it all. Started using Scrivener at the start but it slowed me down. Now I have piles and piles of work that I need to sort out and may turn back to Scrivner or just use Word to...

Thanks Lyn, That is very helpful, I'm looking for a beginners session. Andrew

Hello Savvy Authors, I am a newbie to writing groups, this is my first try. I am looking for editing tools and suggestions to organize roughly nine months of free writing. The first part of my writing journey has been “getting it down on paper”. Now I’m going back to make sense of it all...