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 »Now, with a little help from the prologue, I can write an all-new first chapter, while setting the mood for the story.
This week word count goal: 32 500 words (bis!)
Word count so far: 19 529 words
Apparently, the current trend in the book industry is against the existence of prologues.
Why write a prologue when you can just start with chapter one?
In my very humble writer/reader/movie lover opinion, here’s why.
that is not an excuse to not work on YA WIP. Which I did. For a very short amount of time.
This week word count goal: 32 500 words
Word count so far: 18 674 words
I wrote, in a previous post, about how your writer’s life has to adapt to your life as a parent.
Well, today was such a day.
Kiddo took forever to fall asleep; today’s day job work was… something else; I am thoroughly exhausted.
But, that is not an excuse to not work on YA WIP. Which I did. For a very short amount of time.
I am sure I will end up deleting every single word I wrote tonight because it is sooo not working. The whole chapter I thought I had all figured out is not working.
I know why.
It’s because of the rule of three.
In YA WIP, action happens in a haunted place, in a college and in third place (I’m not sure yet, since a character who was supposed to simply show up once brought something way more interesting, in a creating conflicts kinda way).
In the present chapter I am working on, I created a fourth place. And it simply doesn’t work.
The fourth place is where we meet the half-way there antagonist, and I am info-dumping like crazy. Too many details, too many dialogues, too many backstories conflicts that are getting in the way of the actual action.
In short, I am making things too complicated for the reader.
That chapter needs a complete re-write. The one before too.
But it will have to wait until tomorrow. Now, it is brainstorming time. I have to get my characters out of there while introducing the half-way antagonist and the new character. A cute one too.
Anyhou, thanks for reading. Until next time!
Marie Alice Writes & Reads 