This last chapter was actually fairly emotionally draining. Understandable, since it’s a four act structure, and this was the high point of the middle of the book. For a cheesy adventure about pirates, this book is dealing with some serious shit. The chapter started with battle, and ended with a marriage and a funeral.
Month: November 2013
A birthday update…
On my birthday, I managed to finish editing and uploading the fourth audiobook chapter of Saving Christmas: Slay Bells, and finish Chapter 3 of my NaNoWriMo project, which put me at just over 15,000 words.
The next day I had expected to have a full day at home to work. But I got a call from my boss, asking me to come in and cover a shift. I needed the money, so I said yes. I didn’t get home until about 4:30 in the afternoon.
By I had finished chapter 4, which put me at just over 20,000 words. The first act of my NaNoWriMo project is done. After only getting back into writing for about two months, I’ve managed to write over 95,000 words split among various project. Although, I do have to admit, I may have cheated a bit and reused a few words here and there.
I hope I can keep up this pace, because my outline puts my NaNoWriMo project at a little over 80,000 words. And I would very much like to finish it before the post-Thanksgiving rush at my day job.
First NaNoWriMo workblog update
I finished my first chapter yesterday. Unfortunately, I realized that I had to jam two scenes together, because each one really was just half of a whole. Which meant that I was lacking an ending scene for Chapter 2.
Then I realized that the whole scene worked better to end Chapter 2 anyway. So I started today off by moving it to Chapter 2, and writing another ending scene to Chapter 1. Which was okay, because I was missing something to bridge the two chapters together anyway. 😛 And then I ended up moving a couple of scenes around in Chapter 1 to make it flow better. Which I know I shouldn’t be doing, I should be writing, not moving scenes around. But copy and paste is quick, and I can’t walk away from something without fixing it.
In the end, I just had to realize that my outline was just that. An outline. A guideline for writing the novel itself.
So now I have chapter two a quarter done before I’ve even started writing it. And Chapter 1 is much better, smoother, self contained, and metes out a better flow of information to the reader about the characters and setting than it did in the outline.