Day 5 of 10 Writing FayTown Calling
I had nine sections to go over and I did five of them, including one that I had no idea what to do with and had to make from scratch. It went well and I’ve added about 5,000 words to the story, as well as moving three of the sections from Mess or Needs Work to Happy. One of the five is still Mess (because it’s five in the morning and I’m tired) and the other is Missing Something. No idea what, but that’s the reason for the label. I was very happy with the sections I moved to Happy. I was, well, let’s just say I was concerned with their quality. That’s where most of my work went today, making them better, making them flow. Tomorrow’s goal is to complete the rest of what I wanted to do today. It will probably included looking at this last section, moving it from Mess to…
Day 4 of 10 Writing FayTown Callin
I was hoping to get more done today, but that just wasn’t in the cards. The good news, I wrote out my action scene. It needs some work (it’s a bit of a mess) but it exists, and that netted me over three thousand words. From there, I have looked over a few more sections and they mostly look fine, it’s just the pacing. I have a tendency to get, for lack of a better word, impatient in certain scenes. I don’t know what causes it, whether it’s discomfort with a theme or setup, I really don’t know, but I have certain scenes that always feel rushed. I have to kneed them out, like dough, until they’re the pacing is where I want it. I was hoping to go over this cluster of sections today and continue on, to get that kneading process out. After dinner though, this migraine came…
Day 3 of 10 Writing FayTown Calling
It’s six in the morning, so forgive my tenses, but for me it’s still Sunday. Didn’t begin writing until 4:30 today after going to the grocery store. Had enough time to make sure the work I’d done the day before was good and then it was time to make dinner. This actually turned out to be more productive than anticipated because I was able to address an issue that’s been bothering me in the upcoming section. So, while making hamburger patties, I walked through how the next couple chapters needed to go. After that, I didn’t get to get back to writing until midnight. I wrote about three thousand words, working from what I’d thought up earlier, creating a chapter I didn’t even know what going to exist but am very happy with. This will lead into the action scene I’ve been putting off but is fully outlined (as I…
Day 2 of 10 Writing FayTown Calling
I decided to do this one live since it’s four in the morning and this day has given me some trouble. I spent the afternoon honing out the sections I had trouble with the night before, only to go back and not really like what I’d done. I don’t know if it’s the concept of what I’ve added or my execution, but I decided to leave it for now and move on. Tonight didn’t go much better, much as I hate to admit it. I got started around midnight and couldn’t find the flow of things, worse, I kept second guessing what I had and where I was going. That led to me trying to get organized. I storyboarded some concepts (which helped) and wrote some things out in a notebook (which helped some more) and then looked over the chapters I had looking at the work it would take…
Day 1 of 10 Writing FayTown Calling
The first day and, as expected, I’m a little bit behind, a little bit ahead. Something I forgot to do in my post yesterday was discuss what all I’m looking at, or even how far along the story is. Dean Wesley Smith has been doing a daily writing log for the past six months or so, that’s what gave me the idea for this in the first place, but he mainly focuses on word count. He’s a big believer in the one draft, beginning to end style of writing. There is A LOT to take away from that, I should have finished this six months (if not a year) ago. I’m still developing as an author though (I think having a full time day job, child, and wife in nursing school has also played its part) and there have been many story and plot elements I just didn’t know what to…