I always start a new writing project by writing a rough backstory for each of the main characters.
With this project though, I went deeper and wrote way more detailed backstories.
This week’s word count goal: 32 500 words
Word count so far: 20 764 words
Something very funny happened with this story.
Turns out I wrote a good chunk of the middle of the book first.
Continuer la lecture de « Diary of a new writing project. Day 36: Backstories forever »I recently went back to an old fantasy novel draft (I’m trying hard to make it a stand-alone; very hard…) and, as I now do before working on a novel, try to sell it first.
I hit a problem: the many sub-genres of literary Fantasy.
The marketing of books created many, many sub-genres for genres fiction in general, and for literary Fantasy especially.
I recently went back to a old fantasy novel draft (I’m trying hard to make it a stand alone; very hard…) and, as I now do before working on a novel, try to sell it first.
I hit a problem: the many sub-genres of literary Fantasy.
Suddenly, I was not writing a Fantasy novel anymore. I was writing… what exactly?
I was at lost. Ends a bit of research on the topic.
Continuer la lecture de « Writing a novel: On Fantasy »It really is a struggle, for an author, to kill in a convincing way. I say it is even harder to NOT kill in a convincing manner.
This week word count goal: 15 000 words
Word count so far: 13 063 words
It really is a struggle, for an author, to kill in a convincing way. I say it is even harder to NOT kill in a convincing manner.
I knew that scene was coming up, but I wasn’t really sure about how it would play out. First, I went with just a touch a spook, but it was sooo cliché, I bored myself writing it.
Bloody with a crescendo of spooky, that is what I went for. And it works like a charme. The scene is great.
But the amount of research I had to do to be able to describe with accuracy the wounded victim, impressive.
So many knife wounds to choose from! Plus, they had to be not deadly. And, not in the shoulder. Because, come on, they all get stab/shot in the shoulder!
I thought I would share the results of my research, which was not as thorough as it will be in a couple of months, when revision kicks in, but still, valuable.
The rough draft is a total mess, that being said. I am adding stuff at the beginning, strengthening the plot, getting to know the characters better.
I think a chronological revision and a little bit of structural coherence is required.
It will my 15 000 words reward, haha!
Thanks for reading this post. If you have any resources regarding the facts behind human wounds of any kind, please let me know in the comments.
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