Well I started the last part of the plan for chronicles book 1 at lunchtime today! Pleased I've managed to get back to it. Struggled with fatigue this last week as work has drained me and I havent felt like being at a computer when I get home. But with renewed enthusiasm I'm back! Tackled some tricky points where i has taken notes - without my main notebook to guide me - so I've had to weave the disparate parts together. It was a challenge, one I enjoyed and now its done. So hopefully just a couple more sessions and I'll be ready to start the serious business of writing, proper.
Wow this last couple of weeks has been mad! Work has been really busy and trying to find time and energy to work on my book has been a real struggle. But slow and steady, bit by bit... I will get there in the end. I've had to accept I cant work on it on an evening because I'm just to tired and I end up rewriting the passages anyway.
So although I'm making like a snail at the moment it is getting there and I am almost at the end of writing up the plot. Fingers crossed it will be done by my next post and the proper writing can commence in earnest! Wish me luck! Now over the last week I have been typing up my plot into a more coherent whole and it occurred to me that it might be worth sharing something with you...
If I am working on a plot or even a scene, I find the ideas always come over me when I'm at work or out and about. I spend many a lunchtime at the library or in a coffee shop franticly writing in my journal or a dedicated note book - if I'm lucky I might even have an electronic device in which to record these epiphanies. Some of my best scenes (in my humble opinion) are written on the spur of the moment in a flash of inspiration. This habit is one I have learned to embrace as this works for me. The down side is that it is much more work to weave these bursts of clarity into the actual project than if I had just made it up in turn. These bursts of inspiration will often tell me more than the scene they will pluck something from deep in my mind that is key to understanding how my character thinks or acts. So if you find it daunting to just sit down and write the whole plot or scene in one go... don't. Set yourself down somewhere you feel comfortable with a notebook or electronic device and a cuppa or one thing or another and relax. let your mind wander over the details of your characters and you never know you might have your own flash of inspiration! |
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