Save the Cat Writes a Novel – Words Worth Writing

I won an award

23 November 2021 Diane NaNoWriMo, writer at work

On Thursday evening I received a message via the contact form. It was from QueryLetter.com and it was to let me know that they’d given me an award. I receive a lot of spam via the contact form, so the

Diary of a pocket novel – the end of Act 1

6 September 2019 Diane writer at work

Thanks to my Monday afternoon writers’ group I’m being forced to work on the pocket novel. We’re supposed to bring something new to every session, either something we’re working on or something set to a theme. As I’m working on

Wednesday 17 July 2019

17 July 2019 Diane writer at work

It was so hot here yesterday I ended up stripping down to just a nightie and flip flops to sit and work in. That felt both refreshing and quite liberating. I’m not complaining. The last house was the coldest house

Diary of a Novel: 2 April 2019

2 April 2019 Diane Diary of a Novel

Having abandoned – temporarily – Catch the Rainbow, yesterday I started work on The Beast Within: a Marcie Craig mystery. Marcie Craig is the main protagonist and amateur sleuth in my first novel Night Crawler. Whereas that novel was set

Getting out of the doldrums

15 February 2019 Diane writer at work

I was feeling a tad overwhelmed this time last week when I posted about the various piles of work I had. But sorting them out and discussing it with the poet really helped. The first thing I did was finish

52 books in 52 weeks: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

15 January 2019 Diane 52 books in 52 weeks

I set myself the goal of reading and reviewing 52 writing guides over the year. Here is book 44. Save the Cat! has been the last book on screenwriting that screenwriters will ever need since 2005, and then there was