Writing of my first draft continues, I'm going at about a 750 Word-per-day pace if you average it out with some of the days off that I've taken. I have the outlines for all the main story chapters leading up to the climax of the story, I'll have to back-fill and revise and put in all the side story afterwards. I have some ideas in that regard and some of it outlined, but I haven't reached a point of clarity on how exactly it will proceed just yet.
I'm really not looking forward to the first revision/edit. There's a LOT that has to be fixed and updated, and I'm beginning to wonder if that's why my pace has slowed, as a form of procrastination. Of course, it could have something to do with the 11 lb. kitten (Mal) that insists on curling up between my chest and laptop on my office table, purring away and clinging to my right arm. Yeah, that's a good excuse too.
I wrote a fun little scene this evening, the culmination of what I hope to be a nice little bit of character development throughout the story. Of course, a lot of that development has to be back-filled, since it wasn't really key to the plot, just key to the character that wormed his way into becoming the main character.
Still enjoying every second of the process, we'll see how long that keeps up once the main plot-line is written and it's time to make it into something decently readable.
- Grimm
Monday, December 12, 2011
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Back at it.
After a refreshing 3 days off writing, I'm back at it. Spent a few hours this evening touching up my outline and making a fair bit of notes. I've got fairly tight outlines for the next 15 chapters, which should put me right up against the main climax of BookB. Once I get through that, and figure out exactly how things will come down on the far side I'll start revision and rewriting.
You see, I've got a pretty good Outline of 10,000 words or so that I've been working from, and it goes up to the climax of the story (actually, I worked some major points backwards from here in the outline), and covers the basics of what happens there, but it doesn't go beyond, into the aftermath, because I want to finish fleshing out the characters and getting to know them as I write the first draft of the story, so the post-climax fallout doesn't lack the emotional punch I'd like it to have.
As for the revision and rewriting, well, I have to back-fill a lot of details and descriptions, rewrite a fair bit of the first half of what I've written to take some of those revisions through the whole book, and of course, I have to flesh out the side characters and side plots which I've just sketched in the skeletons for up to this point, since I've been focused on the main arc.
All told I actually wrote about 1200 words tonight, which doesn't quite meet the quota I'd like to keep myself to, but it's good enough for the first night back after my little break :)
- Grimm
You see, I've got a pretty good Outline of 10,000 words or so that I've been working from, and it goes up to the climax of the story (actually, I worked some major points backwards from here in the outline), and covers the basics of what happens there, but it doesn't go beyond, into the aftermath, because I want to finish fleshing out the characters and getting to know them as I write the first draft of the story, so the post-climax fallout doesn't lack the emotional punch I'd like it to have.
As for the revision and rewriting, well, I have to back-fill a lot of details and descriptions, rewrite a fair bit of the first half of what I've written to take some of those revisions through the whole book, and of course, I have to flesh out the side characters and side plots which I've just sketched in the skeletons for up to this point, since I've been focused on the main arc.
All told I actually wrote about 1200 words tonight, which doesn't quite meet the quota I'd like to keep myself to, but it's good enough for the first night back after my little break :)
- Grimm
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