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kristen999) wrote2010-03-09 08:23 pm
kristen999) wrote2010-03-09 08:23 pm
"Red Sands" Week Ten
Where I talk about walls and tunnels.
I'll start off with a bright spot. I finished chapter 13. I'm still weary about several aspects of it, a possible issue with momentum, and some doubts about the ending. (One in which I re-wrote four times) But it is complete and I began chapter 14.
Upon reflecting on my outline, I know that this story will not go eighteen chapters, more than likely, it'll be seventeen. Maybe...just maybe sixteen chapters long. Why the change?
When I outline, usually the first third of the story is done in greater detail. Each 'chapter' has a dozen or more bullet points of plot, action, important scenes and development. As I reach the middle, it gets more general, because a story is organic and can go any direction. I try to hit my action/plot points, but the space in between can morph and change based on what occurs.
The last third is the vaguest, my bullet points are what I want to see wrap up, climaxes, and reveals and less and less about the middle scenes. In this case, I over estimated how many scenes I would have in the later chapters.
So, the light at the end of the tunnel has turned much brighter. I'll know by the end of fourteen how much I'll have left.
Speaking of walls...
Fourteen has been a giant pain. None of the dialogue is going the way I want. None of the flow or emotion I want is being coveyed. I have 1k words, but I've let it sit for a couple of days to see if I regain my magic.
This is what happens when you have two people who do not do emotions or communication very well.
I am hopeful.
This week's goal:
Get Fourteen done.
I'll start off with a bright spot. I finished chapter 13. I'm still weary about several aspects of it, a possible issue with momentum, and some doubts about the ending. (One in which I re-wrote four times) But it is complete and I began chapter 14.
Upon reflecting on my outline, I know that this story will not go eighteen chapters, more than likely, it'll be seventeen. Maybe...just maybe sixteen chapters long. Why the change?
When I outline, usually the first third of the story is done in greater detail. Each 'chapter' has a dozen or more bullet points of plot, action, important scenes and development. As I reach the middle, it gets more general, because a story is organic and can go any direction. I try to hit my action/plot points, but the space in between can morph and change based on what occurs.
The last third is the vaguest, my bullet points are what I want to see wrap up, climaxes, and reveals and less and less about the middle scenes. In this case, I over estimated how many scenes I would have in the later chapters.
So, the light at the end of the tunnel has turned much brighter. I'll know by the end of fourteen how much I'll have left.
Speaking of walls...
Fourteen has been a giant pain. None of the dialogue is going the way I want. None of the flow or emotion I want is being coveyed. I have 1k words, but I've let it sit for a couple of days to see if I regain my magic.
This is what happens when you have two people who do not do emotions or communication very well.
I am hopeful.
This week's goal:
Get Fourteen done.
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And yeah, the frustration of trying to get the characters to cooperate ...! I'm glad it sounds like things are finally breaking loose.
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It's been on the biggest back burner and I won't touch anything else until it is done. Using these writing posts keeps me honest and focused I think. Sometime writing out what the latest rough patch almost makes it easier to see how to attack it.
Sometimes its nice to sit back and say I got this chapter done and be excited about it!
And it won't let up anytime soon. Help_Haiti is next!
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