Hey all,
There’s little less than a month to go before I start writing, so it’s crunch time. Luckily, things are actually on track (as far as I’ve thought ahead, I’m sure I’m missing a great deal of things).
At the moment, I’m trying to get the story to flow right. That means I’m putting all the key scenes I thought of earlier into a document and start shifting them around. This enables me to see how scenes can transition into each other, and keep things from becoming too episodic. I can now place where I want certain characteristics to show and how to include everyone in the main narrative.
I’m now on my second pass, which already flows much better than the first one. Both passes lacked an ending though, as I’m simply not sure how I want to wrap things up yet. I got a lot closer today, which I choose to count as a point for me.
This scene-scheme is sort of like a storyboard, in that it really allows me to tweak the finer points of the story and see what works and doesn’t before actually producing the novel. I hope to finish this stage this week, after which I can begin work on the map of the area. I hope I can come up with the rest while writing. That’s some of the fun; not knowing every little detail, but making some things up as you go along. NaNoWriMo is about to start, and I hope to be ready.
TTFN.
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