Improving Technique Revising The Storm #48 30 May 2022 Two weeks ago, I gave an update on my novel, after which I shifted to doing some work on my short story, The Storm. I have just hit the next…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 47 29 Apr 202230 May 2022 Last week I brought the second section of this middle act nearly to conclusion. Thus, I am in the middle segment of the middle section of the middle act...right at…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 46 22 Apr 202229 Apr 2022 I've been writing even more new material than I expected in this revision of the story's middle act. Even scenes that I recycled from before have had their context considerably…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 45 15 Apr 202222 Apr 2022 Today I'm looking to finish the first major segment of the middle act. This segment has been quite a bit longer than I'd anticipated. If the second and third are…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 44 8 Apr 202215 Apr 2022 In my last entry we left things at the height of chaos. It was also all-new material, which was very pleasant to get to write after having repeated the same…
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 32 17 Dec 2021 I started making some significant changes to The Storm last week, throwing out and replacing entire sections. When I took a look at last week's work, I realized that there…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 22 1 Oct 202114 Dec 2021 After my first draft I felt that The Storm needed a more fleshed out body, with more obstacles to exhaust both the characters and the reader. I therefore added a…
Improving Technique Revising The Storm- Week 9 2 Jul 202130 Dec 2021 I haven't quite finished with Oscar's struggle against the waves, and after that I'm going to throw in a few more challenges before Harry gives his confession. I don't just…