Day 5: Visual Graphing with Julie Carrick Dalton
Day 5: Visual Graphing with Julie Carrick Dalton
The March March Writing Challenge
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Author Julie Carrick Dalton helps us re-see our novel drafts through a unique (and colorful) method she calls “Visual Graphing.”
Julie Carrick Dalton is the Boston-based author of Waiting for the Night Song, named a Most Anticipated 2021 novel by CNN, Newsweek, USA Today, Parade, and others, and an Amazon Editor’s pick for Best Books of the Month. A Bread Loaf, Tin House, and GrubStreet Novel Incubator alum, Julie is a frequent speaker on the topic of Fiction in the Age of Climate Crisis at universities, conferences, libraries, and museums. Her writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Orion, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, and other publications. When she isn’t writing, you can usually find Julie digging in her garden, skiing, kayaking, or walking her dogs. Her second novel, THE LAST BEEKEEPER, is coming out on March 7.
Julie’s graph (plus her dog!)
Day 5: Visual Graphing with Julie Carrick Dalton
Very interesting. Again, thank you. As more of a visual person, this appeals to me. I often sketch things out. But the idea of graphing is slightly more organized than my normal hodgepodge, and the idea of doing this after the first draft is a great idea (for me anyway!) because it could catch a multitude of problems early on!
Ha,ha, your method does give me hives, but that’s probably a good thing because it tests my boundaries.