The Planning Experiment
Writing Updates: Week 26-27
Week 26-27 of 2010 Writing Updates Project Title: Trick of the Coin (the planning experiment has a title, albeit temporary one….) Genre: Urban Fantasy Total New Words: 8271 Current Phase: Zero Draft Current Progress: 26219/95,000 Last Week’s Goal: 2,000 words Next Week’s Goal: 2,000 words Things That Happened in Fiction This Week: Writing in general [...]
The Planning Experiment: An update
I have no idea where I left you guys the last time I did a post specifically on my experiment with actually planning out a novel. I’ve made a lot of progress with it regardless. By now, I have the entire plot down. I read the book Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, which is [...]
The Writerly Experiment Continues: The First Week
After much working on plotting, and asking more thought-provoking questions of myself about this story, I’ve discovered this is a really slow process. I have much sympathy for those that can’t write that 3k a day like I can, because right now, I FEEL YOUR PAIN. Yesterday, I agonized over how a scene needed to [...]
Writerly Experiment: Update
So, those of you who follow this blog know I just started an experiment with planning out my story. Normally, I just jump into it and write and hope it turns out somewhat literate. That technique works, except I end up doing six months of revisions. Now I’m impatient and I just don’t want to [...]
A Writerly Experiment
Inspired by my friend Cid‘s experiment with pantstering, I decided to write an entire story by planning it out. So, I started on Thursday, the same day I sent off the steampunk novella to Samhain Publishing. I made some random notes that most people would probably call brainstorming. I had elements I wanted in the [...]
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