Category: Write A Book With Me
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Ohio 4 Slow start, but some nice conflict — 852 words
This morning didn’t go as I’d planned (scheduling conflicts and a calendar screw-up that broke a couple of planned things), and I was way late getting started on the words. But the local high-school football stadium found its way into the story, and tomorrow, I’ll be writing some scary, magic-y things happening there. Things that…
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Book 5 outline done — and my application of Creative Destruction.
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…
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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…
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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,…
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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)…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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Still fiddling with yesterday’s infusion of words rescued from Book Three
I’ve added, I’ve cut, I’ve rethought… and I made significant progress on Chapter 6. Just not much of a net gain. So now I’m at 171 words for the day, and 24,242 for the novel. And having moved through a lot of pages to get that very small gain, I’m now going to call it…