So I have all thirty scenes for Book 5. I love what I got. It’s solid, it holds together, it brings in essential pieces from the first four novels and uses stuff I hid throughout the first three (and in-progress fourth) stories to tie things up in a fashion I think is really cool. It’s… Continue reading Book 5 outline done — and my application of Creative Destruction.
Category: Summer of Fiction Writing
Today I studied the map, asked WHY… made good progress on OUTLINE 5… figured out why YESTERDAY crashed…
Can’t say today was easy. I walked in circles (literally) because pacing helps me generate ideas, talked to myself out loud to ask important questions, looked at my map and drew a few circles on it to identify story issues… And then I went back to the line-for-scene outline and managed to come up with… Continue reading Today I studied the map, asked WHY… made good progress on OUTLINE 5… figured out why YESTERDAY crashed…
Down into the DEEP dark… Outline 4 completely redone.
After the weekend break, I came in this morning to a blank outline for Ohio 4, and no idea what was going to go in there… except that it had to be big. I suspect, however, that while I was playing a lot of No Man’s Sky and having fun in my new solar system with… Continue reading Down into the DEEP dark… Outline 4 completely redone.
Have figured out the plot summaries for Ohio 4 and Ohio 5 — now to the line-for-scene outlines
Kind of a headdesk day today. Been at this for about three hours already, and it looks like I’ve only achieved 60 words so far: A 30-word plot sentence for Ohio 4, and a 30-word plot sentence for Ohio 5. It’s a lot more than that, though. While I can’t count any of the words,… Continue reading Have figured out the plot summaries for Ohio 4 and Ohio 5 — now to the line-for-scene outlines
Reworking the Ohio #4 Outline — The outline from the current chapter on is “burn to ground, start over”
As noted in yesterday’s post, today’s work has required me to gut the outline for Book 4, and rethink. While I’ll be able to keep the scenes I’ve already written in Book Four, I won’t be able to keep much of any of the future scenes I’d planned. Progress is slow, and also (big surprise)… Continue reading Reworking the Ohio #4 Outline — The outline from the current chapter on is “burn to ground, start over”
“No plan survives first contact with the enemy…”
Or second contact… Or third… The quote may come from Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, or Carl von Clausewitz, or Dwight D. Eisenhower… or just some dude who knew shit. But it’s true — and it isn’t just true about war. It’s true about any sort of creation that requires spontaneous adaptation to unknowable but… Continue reading “No plan survives first contact with the enemy…”
Good progress, good conflict… and a whiff of destruction on the wind
Have been working since 7AM — and today flew. Book 4 took a dangerous turn this morning, as something I’d sort of tripped over in an earlier book took on a life of its own, and unfolded in front of me in a way I had never even imagined. There is a schism amongst my… Continue reading Good progress, good conflict… and a whiff of destruction on the wind
Three steps forward, two steps back: Ohio 4, Chapter 7… and done, I think, with stuff brought forward from Ohio 3
I am, much to my delight, just about out of the stuff I saved from Ohio 3 to use in Ohio 4. It’s good stuff, and reworking it so that it fits the current worldbuilding is interesting, and fun… …But constantly ripping out old words as I insert the better new ones is not my… Continue reading Three steps forward, two steps back: Ohio 4, Chapter 7… and done, I think, with stuff brought forward from Ohio 3
Tiptoeing through the minefield… and being mocked by my Muse
I’d hoped to get 1200 words net today, but after a workday that started at six AM and included very little sleep the night before, I’m going to take what I got and go do things that don’t require so much brain. What I got, though… Holy Crap! I found out something absolutely enormous about… Continue reading Tiptoeing through the minefield… and being mocked by my Muse
The truth about elves… 2,266 words today, 27,056 words total, and a LOT of fun
Tolkien aside, I have always preferred small, fast elvish trouble-makers to tall, willowy, blonde high elves. And today I had a LOT of fun writing the little troublemakers, and got sheer joy reveling in knowing who they’re about to start making trouble for. Some of what landed in the book today was a cut-and-paste save… Continue reading The truth about elves… 2,266 words today, 27,056 words total, and a LOT of fun
