For the last three years, January has been a Very productive time. It's my third January on this project.
I'm really glad I have the wip up on a locked journal, because I can look back and see just when I finished a chapter, and I've used each entry to keep notes of changes I made in edits, etc.
I started in Sept. 07. That first January I had the ending of what may be considered one novel up, Acts I & II, though parts of things in the middle there were still very rough. The following January I gave up editing in my Acts I & II, and started Act III, and now I'm writing the concluding sequence. I know I'll have it done sometime this month.
I like to keep those kind of log details, because they ARE great to look back on, and I haven't kept them in my draft here on the computer.
Tagging things here is also a good way to be able to look back.
I don't think there's a wrong way to write a novel, excepting one thing... Not finishing. A big thing that can make that happen is getting stuck in re-writes of the beginning, or editing anywhere for too long, before the draft is done. I found myself doing that, and stopped. Thank God! I still edit, when I find I absolutely MUST, but then I get back to going forward.
And once this is finished, sometime this month, I will be able to settle myself down in edit heaven, because I LOVE that part. lol.
This writing friend likes to hear about another writer's experience. I love to talk about it, myself! (As I'm sure you see here.)
Above all, I want to document it for myself, since I've never had an experience like it before. I find it fascinating because it's not at all how I thought it would be. It's not so formulaic.
Yes! It is fascinating, and for me also, nothing like what I expected when I started. And for me it's also very organic, growing out of questions. Eric has said he thinks I'm an investigator, hard at work uncovering the story. (I think I'm going to take some of what I wrote here and post it in my writer journal, lol.)
I'm starting to think I can actually do this now. ;)
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on 2010-01-15 06:53 pm (UTC)I'm really glad I have the wip up on a locked journal, because I can look back and see just when I finished a chapter, and I've used each entry to keep notes of changes I made in edits, etc.
I started in Sept. 07. That first January I had the ending of what may be considered one novel up, Acts I & II, though parts of things in the middle there were still very rough. The following January I gave up editing in my Acts I & II, and started Act III, and now I'm writing the concluding sequence. I know I'll have it done sometime this month.
I like to keep those kind of log details, because they ARE great to look back on, and I haven't kept them in my draft here on the computer.
Tagging things here is also a good way to be able to look back.
I don't think there's a wrong way to write a novel, excepting one thing... Not finishing. A big thing that can make that happen is getting stuck in re-writes of the beginning, or editing anywhere for too long, before the draft is done. I found myself doing that, and stopped. Thank God! I still edit, when I find I absolutely MUST, but then I get back to going forward.
And once this is finished, sometime this month, I will be able to settle myself down in edit heaven, because I LOVE that part. lol.
This writing friend likes to hear about another writer's experience. I love to talk about it, myself! (As I'm sure you see here.)
Above all, I want to document it for myself, since I've never had an experience like it before. I find it fascinating because it's not at all how I thought it would be. It's not so formulaic.
Yes! It is fascinating, and for me also, nothing like what I expected when I started. And for me it's also very organic, growing out of questions. Eric has said he thinks I'm an investigator, hard at work uncovering the story. (I think I'm going to take some of what I wrote here and post it in my writer journal, lol.)
I'm starting to think I can actually do this now. ;)
YES!
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