The Lifespan of a Novel

I know it’s been a while since I posted something about my writing. It’s not that I haven’t been writing, editing, outlining, planning, submitting, etc. It’s that those activities are standard fair and so provoke little comment.

However, I am currently outlining a new story, and I’m watching it change as the story unfolds. I thought this might prove of interest to some of you.

Those who took my workshop Idea to Outline should find some of this familiar, but for the rest of you, my process goes in stages from idea, to initial synopsis, to breaking down that synopsis into scenes, to filling in the holes, at which point I’m ready to write.

Dry Boiled came to me as a voice, one I don’t normally do, but one perfect for the genre it seemed to be. (more…)