How I Write A Short Story, Part 1 | Behind The Scenes Writing Vlog #9
Hello, Book Lovers!
As you probably know, I’ve moved my writing vlogs over to a new channel, just to distinguish between the two types of content that I provide. Over the months, I’ve noticed that the audience who wants writing advice is a little different from the audience who like my weekly vlogs. Which leads me to announce that I’m doing a mini-experiment on this channel.
Don’t worry, it’s not as crazy as it sounds.
The next few Behind the Scenes Vlogs will be focused on one day as opposed to a weekly writing vlog. So, in theory, the vlogs will be shorter at first, at some point, I may go back to the weekly style content. In this writing vlog, I had initially planned on starting to write a short story, which is titled The Lawn. But, as it turned out, I needed more time to prepare before putting pen to paper or in my case, fingers to the keyboard.
● How I write a short story.
● What is an easter egg?
● What I do before I start writing.
● Scene blocking or Scene Outlining and how I use this technique when I write.
● Creating a scene by scene outline in excel.
● How I edit my outline
● Value shifts and how I use this during the outline editing phase.
● How long it takes me to create a story world, create characters, and outline before I start writing.
● And how I write scenes.
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I’m Amelia. I write mystery and thriller novels under the pen name A. D. Hay and I’m the author of Missing the first book in the James Lalonde series. I’m the host of the Book Nerd Podcast and The Authorpreneur Podcast. Right now, I’m editing my soon to be published mystery novels, The Candidate, Duplicity, 24 Hours, and Immunity. When I’m not writing, hosting my podcasts or coaching aspiring authors, I love to travel around Europe with my Husband Roland, drink tea, and eat pizza.
