plotting Archive
This is the part that starts to scare me. Today, I started trying to construct my scene list. Last time, I think this is part of where I went horribly wrong, but putting way too many unnecessary steps in the …
Today, I started following Rachel Aaron’s (2k to 10k) process for developing a rough sketch of my book before filling in the gaps. I addressed the general motivation and roles of the most important characters in my story (the hero, …
Today, I powered through a draft of the back cover copy for my novel, updated with the new positive action and elimination of the trope-for-trope’s-sake character. This time, I also studied the sales copy on Amazon of my comp books, …
Not a quarter of my book – I haven’t even hit 10k words in the rough draft (writing that, it’s a little depressing to think that 10k is some authors’ daily output – but that’s why I’m here, to tell …
After a barbecue yesterday that involved over 6 hours of being outside and a somewhat considerable amount of alcohol consumption, I was exhausted this morning, so I decided to hit the coaching instead of writing. Rather than take my day …
I finished my last coaching project well ahead of schedule and got in some time to write this morning! In the past, I mapped out all of my scenes in detail for the entire book, using the template from Lisa …
Today, I finally got back to working on my novel, if only for a day. I deliberately gave myself a day between coaching projects, but I do have another one lined up to start tomorrow. Today, I finished sifting together …
I finally finished the dev edit review of the nuclear fusion coaching project I was working on! Not knowing anything about nuclear fusion made it rather more difficult, and it was not an easy project to begin with, resulting in …
I finally had a break in the coaching tasks today and got back to my fiction work, though I didn’t get any new words down. Today’s project was starting to weave the plot points (not exactly scenes, yet) from my …
Today, I finished the rough sketch of my final character arc, for my jester, who also become a bit of a subplot character. Her growth is the most limited throughout the story, but her need is a reflection of my …