Note to self.
Dear Self, Whenever you feel uncertain of what happens next in your novel, why not readest thou of the holy outline? In fact, maybe you should randomly reread the outline for kicks, from time to time. I’m just saying. Love, Me P.S. 10,113 words, go...Five hundred words.
I started the new, improved chapter one of lizardfic today. I have a daily word count goal of five hundred words. That’s doable. There was a moment of, “Oh, no! Start? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers and walk upon the beach. I...Not bad.
Amount of actual words on paper I’m getting down: Almost none. Amount of figuring out what this story needs to work: Ginormous. That’s not what I sat down to do tonight, but I’ll take it. I’ll definitely take...Holy hand grenades, Batman!
I generally think of myself as bad at plot. Maybe I think this because I sometimes end up writing a first draft in which I follow a character around a setting and nothing happens to him or her. (This is generally what’s wrong with the hurricane story, by the...Lots of work for not a lot of prose, and nonfiction reading.
My outline for the novel codenamed Lizardfic is currently 5008 words. That’s longer than most of my short stories. This is more outlining than I’ve ever done for any project, ever. On the other hand, stalled novel, yo. Horrible feeling. Must unstall novel....Outlining is HARD.
Outlining is hard. Let’s do hard-core coding instead! Seriously. I’d ask y’all to tell me that it was only this bad because I’m a complete pantser and usually pull shorter stories out of my ass out of my subconscious like Athena leaping from...Your attention, please.
My writer’s group is made of win. That is all.Getting Things Done
I’m getting lots of things done today. I just don’t have any new prose to show for it. Critiques! Edits on the hurricane story. I’m pondering the outline for the new improved Lizardfic. The outlining in particular feels productive. I’m pretty...One hundred words.
Hey, it could be worse. I had the summer of overtime. I’m even feeling like I might be able to take the hurricane story out behind the woodshed and beat it into shape soon. Maybe I’ll even be able to tackle Lizardfic. I won’t be doing NaNoWriMo,...Subscribe
