Seeing Is Believing Outline Is Complete!
May. 10th, 2007 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marfiskAn amazing, wonderful, perfect thing happened today! I am no longer limping along pretending I know what I'm doing... Okay, right now I'm not writing on Seeing Is Believing at all besides the outline, but I finally got it done :D.
The total outline is: 12,306
The outline with the world building is: 13,830 words.
What this should tell you is that I do 99% of my world building within my outline. The other elements are character names, relationships, descriptions, and anything critical, and the notes I made as I was trying to figure out what went into the outline and where. Other than that, it's either in the outline or irrelevant... Or in my head in some indefinable form that will be available when I need it and only then (I did start out entirely this way you know :)).
Still, having the outline complete is a real boon for me because now I can see how things intersect rather than just writing blindly and hoping they'll all come together somehow. I still think there might need to be more fleshing out of the ending, but those scenes should come to me as I write now that I have the proper framework.
And here are the stats since they now actually make some sort of sense:
67 scenes
36 complete - 54% of the novel
31 Scenes remain
42,180 Remaining word count
91,163 Estimated length - with an average of 1,361 words per scene.
48,983 Current Total
The total outline is: 12,306
The outline with the world building is: 13,830 words.
What this should tell you is that I do 99% of my world building within my outline. The other elements are character names, relationships, descriptions, and anything critical, and the notes I made as I was trying to figure out what went into the outline and where. Other than that, it's either in the outline or irrelevant... Or in my head in some indefinable form that will be available when I need it and only then (I did start out entirely this way you know :)).
Still, having the outline complete is a real boon for me because now I can see how things intersect rather than just writing blindly and hoping they'll all come together somehow. I still think there might need to be more fleshing out of the ending, but those scenes should come to me as I write now that I have the proper framework.
And here are the stats since they now actually make some sort of sense:
67 scenes
36 complete - 54% of the novel
31 Scenes remain
42,180 Remaining word count
91,163 Estimated length - with an average of 1,361 words per scene.
48,983 Current Total
