Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 42 18 Mar 202225 Mar 2022 Last week I got started rewriting the middle section of The Storm, which I will be continuing with today. As a reminder, this is the outline of the segment I…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 41 11 Mar 202217 Mar 2022 Two weeks ago I made an in-depth outline for the middle act of The Storm. About half of its sequences are going to be recycled from previous work, and half…
Improving Technique Update on My Novel: Month 34 4 Mar 202211 Mar 2022 Here I am, having just completed my one-month hiatus from With the Beast. I explained at the start of February that I needed to take a break after finishing the…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 40 25 Feb 20224 Mar 2022 Last week I put together a plan for reworking the middle act of The Storm. I decided to divide it into a miniature three act structure, where it alternates between…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 39 18 Feb 202225 Feb 2022 Last week I shared my insights from reading through my fourth draft. The main takeaway was that my middle act is struggling more than any other. Things just sort of…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 38 11 Feb 202218 Feb 2022 Last week I posted the entirety of my fourth draft for The Storm. Since that time, I have gone through the draft, marking obvious changes and getting a feel for…
Improving Technique Update on My Novel: Month 33 4 Feb 202211 Feb 2022 JANUARY STATS Days Writing: 5 New Character Backgrounds: 1 I had a couple months of excellent progress in my novel towards the end of last year. In fact, October and…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 37 28 Jan 20224 Feb 2022 Well, here I am, four drafts into this project. I'm hoping that by the end of this process I'll have an understanding for how many drafts it takes for me…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 36 21 Jan 202228 Jan 2022 Here we are, about to conclude the fourth draft for this story! I've become very familiar with the story of Oscar and Harry, and I'm hoping that I'm closer to…
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