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A book in 90 days: Week 2 #amwriting

Frankie Bow:

Update: Finished Molly Barda and the Blessed Event! #amwriting

Molly Barda and the Blessed Event is Book Five of the Molly Barda Mysteries. I really had fun with this one. Characters are evolving and maturing, and at the same time, being their own unique selves.

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For the newest Molly Barda mystery (tentative title: Molly Barda and the Blessed Event), I’m trying the Write a Book in 90 Days method as recommended on the Author Marketing Institute’s site.

The schedule looks like this:

Full outline by Day 14
First draft by Day 49
Second draft by Day 56
Submit to editor by Day 63
Re-submit for second pass by Day 73
Publish on Day 90

If all goes according to plan, I’ll have the finished product by fall semester.

The first two weeks are focused on outlining. To add a little more structure to this exercise (I love structure!), I based my outline on  Jami Gold’s Master Beat Sheet template, which in turn builds on Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat and Story Engineering by Larry Brooks.

I also did an illustrated character table. It’s helpful to me to have a “real” person to refer to…

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Musubi is pronounced moo-soo-BEE

From Jane Reads:

What is a Musubi (pronounced moo-soo-BEE)?
There was a time, back when I was living on the mainland (more properly referred to as the Continental United States) when I, too, had never heard of a Spam musubi. In fact, I wouldn’t have dreamed of eating Spam. I thought of it as meat particleboard, a composite of unspeakable animal parts.
Then I moved to Hawaii, where I observed people eating these things that looked like gigantic pieces of sushi. Behold, the Spam musubi:

Musubi = rice snack. #Musubi#Murder = Hawaii’s first campus crime novel. http://bit.ly/1J51j3O#fridayreads#CR4Uhttp://pic.twitter.com/8ERFjzLqcb

— Frankie Bow (@Frankie_Bow) August 14, 2015

I discovered a few things:
1) A Spam musubi is not sushi. It’s a local adaptation of the Japanese o-musubi, which is a rice ball often included in kids’ lunches. The reason it doesn’t properly count as sushi is that sushi is made with vinegared rice , while the rice in a Spam musubi is plain.
2) Spam is not a composite of unspeakable spare parts. Spam is shoulder pork and ham. Original Spam has only six ingredients, fewer than a typical package of hot dogs.
3) When at last I was persuaded to try a Spam musubi, I discovered that Spam was surprisingly delicious. (I am aware of the problems of factory farming. If there were a sustainable version of Spam, using humanely raised, non-environmentally-destructive pork, I would happily pay extra for it. Someone, get on this business idea!)
4) Spam comes in flavors!

Bacon is my favorite. Black pepper is a close second.

Call to Action: Get The Musubi Murder, the very first murder mystery featuring this Spam-based snack!

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