This method allows me to create my own outline without missing feeling like I forgot anything story-beat-wise important.
My writing process is slowly evolving to something new. Something I like.
In the rough outline, I asked myself the basic questions about the characters, I researched, I went back to my old Pinterest board to remind myself what caught my attention in the past year or so.
With the new story in mind, for a week or so, I then brainstormed.
Continuer la lecture de « Writer Notebook: Working outline »It is so not productive, so not doing… something.
The day was bright, clear blue sky, snow trying to melt under the blinding sun.
A giant, pointy ice stalactite formed at the end of a gutter. Drop after drop.
I watched part of it happen. It was a great thirty seconds. Then I move on with my boredom from where I was standing to the couch, on which I drop like the proverbial potato.
When was the last time I got bored, I wondered. It’s such a luxury very few can afford, doing nothing. Starting with yours truly.
It is so not productive, so not doing… something.
It’s soooo great to get to be bored.
Continuer la lecture de « Diary of a Writing Project. Day 153-154: On the importance of boredom »I deleted some 10 000 words in the process or revising and getting the first draft ready to… first… draft. For once, I didn’t like a huge failure for deleting all those words. Progress in the writer process, I guess.
The 35 000 words milestones has been reach!
I am so happy, but… but yeah, I still feel like I have to step on it to make up for all the words I ended up deleting while getting the First Draft ready.
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