Showing posts with label first draft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label first draft. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wow
Jesus Christ, 1,407 words from me at this time of night. There has got to be something wrong with my internal clock.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
An Update
I'm still outlining - my schedule got away from me a little bit, so I'm not quite finished (but of course outlining is never really finished, per se).
I'm also trying, rather desperately, not to let myself go back and edit everything I've already done. This shooting through to the end thing is not what I'm used to, and it's HARD. But I know it's necessary, and I have to do it if I ever want to complete anything, ever, in my life, so I'll push through to the end. I just wish I could somehow lock up all previously worked on files until the end of July, to keep my pesky editor-brain from poking at them.
I'm also trying, rather desperately, not to let myself go back and edit everything I've already done. This shooting through to the end thing is not what I'm used to, and it's HARD. But I know it's necessary, and I have to do it if I ever want to complete anything, ever, in my life, so I'll push through to the end. I just wish I could somehow lock up all previously worked on files until the end of July, to keep my pesky editor-brain from poking at them.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
And so it begins...
Hey, you know that "dark fantasy with almost horror-ish undertones"?
I'm writing it. It's tentatively titled "The Dollmaker," and I'm 3318 words in - and that's before I've done any real plotting on the thing (which I hope to work on over the weekend). Up until now I've just been typing out scenes as they occurred to me and playing around a bit with character ideas and motivations.
Seriously, though, I've been getting some good stuff. And, despite having a horrible, disgusting sinus infection plaguing my respiratory system, I was really quite productive today. I had a net gain of around two thousand words on Dollmaker, and I went through a two-hour long character workshop in which I got some really excellent character sketches for another story.
I also did some "story spirals" last night and got a lot of okay bits mixed with some truly excellent material, including a fleshed out, thoughtful, and somewhat whimsical idea for a novel - maybe a children's novel, maybe something more adult. And that's all I think I'm going to say for now. I should explain what a "story spiral" is in a later post sometime; I think it's something I'll be using when I'm low on ideas (...which, lately, is never, but you never know).
Expect more info on the Dollmaker project later. For now, sleep.
I'm writing it. It's tentatively titled "The Dollmaker," and I'm 3318 words in - and that's before I've done any real plotting on the thing (which I hope to work on over the weekend). Up until now I've just been typing out scenes as they occurred to me and playing around a bit with character ideas and motivations.
Seriously, though, I've been getting some good stuff. And, despite having a horrible, disgusting sinus infection plaguing my respiratory system, I was really quite productive today. I had a net gain of around two thousand words on Dollmaker, and I went through a two-hour long character workshop in which I got some really excellent character sketches for another story.
I also did some "story spirals" last night and got a lot of okay bits mixed with some truly excellent material, including a fleshed out, thoughtful, and somewhat whimsical idea for a novel - maybe a children's novel, maybe something more adult. And that's all I think I'm going to say for now. I should explain what a "story spiral" is in a later post sometime; I think it's something I'll be using when I'm low on ideas (...which, lately, is never, but you never know).
Expect more info on the Dollmaker project later. For now, sleep.
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