i’m only writing about 1k/day, but…
I’m writing 1k/day.
can’t really complain.
day one, 1052
So I thought I’d done my outline, but… no, it was still a bunch of notes in my notebook, waiting to be entered.
ditto with my timeline of events to help me.AND I hadn’t finished either 1939 or 1944’s research yet!
I really need to not mark things off my to-do list until they are, you know, to-done.
Still: kick ass opener. Really happy about it. And tomorrow, hopefully, I won’t have to muck about with preliminaries anymore.
another bonus: I got to call my dad for airplane help and I have an excuse to look at Jane’s with him.
Call Me Fishmeal.: Success, and Farming vs. Mining
This is actually about programming. But I think it’s important to remember in life in general.
There’s no one big score, and you’re out. There’s no hoping for the lottery. There’s just what you do every day.
Slump!
Only made it into chapter 3 with my revisions so far. The hardest part at the moment is not to charge ahead excitedly.
How much is it appropriate to hold back, save for later? How much should be done in the moment?
I don’t just want to keep writing the beginning over and over again.
Still, lots of work started for November as well. I’m hoping that will reduce the amount of pre-revision work (but not restrict me from exploring).
Editing and planning….
CampNaNoWriMo
I’ve started the editing process. I set up a plan which vaguely goes like this:
Prep:
- cut all chapters into scenes
- mark thematic elements
- character lists
- mark point of view
- short research as necessary
Draft 2
- Scene organization
- place scenes in structurs [start with major ones]
- placeholders for insertions
- write missing scenes as go through draft from beginning to end
Draft 3
- Scene arc
- treat scenes as small stories
- review internal scene integrity
- full rewrite, beginning to end
Draft 4
Fact Checking
Draft 5 and onward
Word-level revision
The plan is to get through draft two in September and then three in October. Once that’s done I’ll have a reading draft to show to some initial readers to see what they think overall. The last two+ drafts could take a year. It’s hard to work too much on that in advance.
At any rate, this will free me up for:
NaNoWriMo 2011
Generally, I’ve been what in NaNo they call a pantser—that is, I do everything by the seat of my pants. This year I want to try to write from an outline. Generally this kills it for me, but I am hoping it won’t tank my November draft entirely. Also, one of the characters in my draft from last year—well, his backstory kind of took over into its own story, and I’d like to run with it.
On Story Structure
Highly useful
Site updates
So I had a new website, all set to go, for my writing, based on my personal twitter handle.
And I looked at this site and said: THIS should be my writing blog. Because, it already is.
So I’ll be working a bit on making this site a bit swankier – spending some times with styles and the like.
I fear it’s still for me, at this point, for my writing process, but sadly, no longer just my Office of Letters and Light related content. Editing! Resource Links! yeah that’s about all the other stuff at the moment.
So, hypothetical and mythical readers! Look forward to this! Or not, if you really liked the generic green block style. Sorry!
-Kyrce
day 31, 2114
Yay! finished with 50046, plus the stuff i wrote in April, makes my total come to: 54399.
Off tomorrow most likely, and apparently I don’t work Fridays (or at least in the summer?) but editing will start this weekend at the latest.
This time, I didn’t cry. But I feel satisfied.
I also don’t feel anywhere near as drained as the last time.