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I have the line-per-scene for twenty-nine scenes. About half of them so far include the notation "MASSIVE revision," which isn’t particularly encouraging. I am just now getting to the part where I have to throw everything out and write from scratch.
Numberwise, everything is still adding up, and I’m going through my notes and […]
110,000 words total
217 words per page
506 pages
minus 16 pages for eight interstitial flashback scenes that will only take up one to two pages per scene
490 remaining pages
15 page scenes average
33 full-length scenes
Total scenes to figure out today before beginning on the hardcopy revision — 48
This morning I’m starting into the rewrites by putting together a new line-per-scene for the book. I’ve also revised the progress bar to reflect the fact that every word of the book is going to have to have a major going over, with about 50,000 of the words having to be brand new, to […]
Trying very hard to get the fine details right, and running into problems like my characters finances, ambitions, life experience — and getting them all to tie together.
I’ll get there. But apparently I’m not there yet.
I’m almost afraid to say anything, but it looks like we’re about to the end of figuring out the rewrite of LGD. My breakthrough at the end of the week looks like it’s going to work for everyone. Which means if I’m lucky, I’ll be able to start straight into rewriting LGD tomorrow […]
This is what I did so far on the redesign. Nothing is final yet, (for one thing, I may do a different kind of leading between the buttons) but I really, truly am sick of pastels. I snagged these colors directly off a couple of medieval stained glass windows — I love stained […]
I look at this site, and I am tired of the pastels. How long have I had this design up, anyway?
I want rich, vivid, saturated colors. Sapphire blue, emerald green, ruby red. Stained glass colors. Jewel tones. Sparkle. Over my holiday, I opened up Dreamweaver and plunked around a […]
My wish for you.
Past exhaustion, past frustration, I broke through with the answers to the two major questions that I haven’t been able to find.
Did 411 words in ten minutes freewriting on one question, 447 words in ten minutes freewriting on the second. And by the end of both, I had the answers I needed.
Have […]
After having been stuck on the answers to a couple of essential questions regarding the rewrite of LAST GIRL DANCING, I think I have the direction to take with the story.
Not sure, but the only way to find out is to start writing and see what happens. So this morning, I’ll be doing the […]
