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Okay, so I completely flubbed the outline marathon on Forward Motion by starting a day early and getting the most scenes on that day, but I now have a workable outline for Sorcery and the Perfect Dress even if it doesn't have that many scenes. The title is less important now because it's not about prom and it's not really about the dress, though the concept is in there. I'm liking the story a lot. Whether it'll work is a whole 'nother question but it'll get written at least :).
As the outline stands now, there are 36 scenes and an estimated length of 54,000 based on an average of 1500 words per scene.
So, I have this grand plan for NaNo...
But first, a funny story.
My husband and I usually take a walk at night to get a smidge of exercise and some quiet time to talk about our days without the boys bouncing around distracting us.
There we are, walking along, and I'm telling him about my grand plan for NaNo. I've had a horrible year and at the same time done a lot of writing, my therapy, so I said I don't really need another book this year.
He jerks to a halt and stares, wild-eyed, at me. I'm like, What? He just waves me to continue and I explain how I plan to do a normal NaNo rather than go for a full book. He sighs with relief. He'd been having visions of me panicking on the 11th, charging out to write 10k+ a day all the way through Thanksgiving (when my parents are coming for a visit) and being stressed and awful the rest of the month.
He failed to realize I'm smarter than that now. There's no point in even pretending I won't do NaNo...otherwise his scenario is all too likely.
But my grand plan is this. First of all, Sorcery is currently predicted to be only 54k. In previous years when something has come in that low, I've started a second book, but I'm not doing that this year. This year, I will get my 1667 a day with the exception of write-ins and then move on to my editing tasks that have been sorely neglected this year. If all goes well, I'll complete NaNo with at least one of my editing projects also in the bag. Even if all I get is progress on the editing, it'll be an improvement on my present state, right?
And the writing note of interest:
Holly Lisle, a favorite author of mine and one who does a lot to help other writers, is offering a teleseminar and a writing newsletter with writing prompts and the like. I'm part of her affiliate program and so she told us about this a little early. Anyway, if you're interested in checking out either the teleseminar or the newsletter, you can use the below links. In the interests of full disclosure :), they are tied into my affiliate program, but they'll get you where you need to be to learn about these new offerings.
The Teleseminar:
http://shop.hollylisle.com/jamaffiliates/jrox.php?id=134_1_tlid_25_NOVELAPP
The Newsletter:
http://shop.hollylisle.com/jamaffiliates/jrox.php?id=134_1_tlid_26_MAILINGLST
Enjoy.
As the outline stands now, there are 36 scenes and an estimated length of 54,000 based on an average of 1500 words per scene.
So, I have this grand plan for NaNo...
But first, a funny story.
My husband and I usually take a walk at night to get a smidge of exercise and some quiet time to talk about our days without the boys bouncing around distracting us.
There we are, walking along, and I'm telling him about my grand plan for NaNo. I've had a horrible year and at the same time done a lot of writing, my therapy, so I said I don't really need another book this year.
He jerks to a halt and stares, wild-eyed, at me. I'm like, What? He just waves me to continue and I explain how I plan to do a normal NaNo rather than go for a full book. He sighs with relief. He'd been having visions of me panicking on the 11th, charging out to write 10k+ a day all the way through Thanksgiving (when my parents are coming for a visit) and being stressed and awful the rest of the month.
He failed to realize I'm smarter than that now. There's no point in even pretending I won't do NaNo...otherwise his scenario is all too likely.
But my grand plan is this. First of all, Sorcery is currently predicted to be only 54k. In previous years when something has come in that low, I've started a second book, but I'm not doing that this year. This year, I will get my 1667 a day with the exception of write-ins and then move on to my editing tasks that have been sorely neglected this year. If all goes well, I'll complete NaNo with at least one of my editing projects also in the bag. Even if all I get is progress on the editing, it'll be an improvement on my present state, right?
And the writing note of interest:
Holly Lisle, a favorite author of mine and one who does a lot to help other writers, is offering a teleseminar and a writing newsletter with writing prompts and the like. I'm part of her affiliate program and so she told us about this a little early. Anyway, if you're interested in checking out either the teleseminar or the newsletter, you can use the below links. In the interests of full disclosure :), they are tied into my affiliate program, but they'll get you where you need to be to learn about these new offerings.
The Teleseminar:
http://shop.hollylisle.com/jamaffiliates/jrox.php?id=134_1_tlid_25_NOVELAPP
The Newsletter:
http://shop.hollylisle.com/jamaffiliates/jrox.php?id=134_1_tlid_26_MAILINGLST
Enjoy.
