DebbieGoelz/ BrittanieCharmintine Presents: RED SNOW

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Hi Everyone!

Thanks for stopping by my Block Party Post!!!

I am part of @KellyAnneBlount's SNOW anthology. My story is called RED SNOW. It's about a girl living alone in a cabin in the forest working for an evil witch. It's part RAPUNZEL, part CINDERELLA, maybe a dollop of SNOW WHITE.

But here's the fun part ... I thought I'd show you a little of my process. How I took Kelly's prompt, outlined the story, wrote a rough draft, and then came up with the final version.

If you're like me, you know intellectually that it's okay for rough drafts to suck. But there is a part of me that thinks (EVERY TIME!) that the writing is so bad there is no hope it can ever be good. I'm hoping to illustrate this here. I got the idea for this post from a book written by a friend of mine, Mary Robinette Kowal. It shows this process—from idea stage to rough draft to final by four well-known scifi and fantasy authors.*

PART ONE - HOW IT ALL BEGAN:

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PART ONE - HOW IT ALL BEGAN:

One day I was minding my own business at home, looking out over a sea of redwoods when I got a call from Kelly.

One day I was minding my own business at home, looking out over a sea of redwoods when I got a call from Kelly

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Redwoods from my Window

She had this awesome idea: why don't we get a bunch of Wattpad authors together and do an anthology? The stories were to be set in a log cabin in the middle of winter, with the theme of forbidden love. All the stories had to feature a character named Claudia who owned the cabin and be a minimum of 10,000 words. Now I just needed to come up with a story.

 Now I just needed to come up with a story

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