Revising. Working out when to reveal what and how to build up my red herrings and foreshadowing. It is so, so hard! I know, theoretically, what I should be doing, but trying to make my own story do it... Ick. I know I'm getting somewhere, but at the moment I feel quite bogged down and disillusioned. Not gonna let that stop me though! Yay, perseverance, and stuff.
Been feeling bad postponing any work on my story so I have been staying up to 4am trying to rewrite the beginning but I only get 2 or 3 good paragraphs at a time...definitely Yay for perseverance.
Soo sooo happy. I've written about ten pages of summarized scenes for my story, and I think it's coming along really great It's such a relief too because I've been practically dormat with writing for a while.
My MC has just met her best friend in the alternate world (it's a fantasy for YA age group). The friend is named Tailey, which was inspired by my friend Taylee91.
I'm writing Act I, Plot Point I in my story. Plot Point I is where the main character cheat with the ex friend's girlfriend. I guess he's either seeking revenge against him or he wants to get to know her more. I'm guessing that it's drama, but not sure what genre it's in. Maybe if I post the first four pages in the Review Room, someone might identify the genre before I do. Anyway, I'm almost in the second act of my story.
Need help with setting and the little trinkets and details that go along with it all. On a micro and macro basis.
This. Times 50,000 infinities*. I find it really, really funny that "infinities" does not get redlined. (And "redlined" does!)
I am sooo excited right now. I'm in the stage of outlining my story, and so far I've covered the first and second chapters. My characters are in the midst of danger and are having a hard time comprehending the circumstances around them.
I'm in the process of writing another story. I'm trying to make sure that my story idea is more original (not so original that no one would read or watch it). I hope I can finally come out with something that is marketable. I thought about giving up since people find my stories boring.
^Well good, don't give up on them. Just keep asking yourself the W questions, and you'll come up with more creative, original ideas
I just completed my fourth novel of the series and I'm now a little over 19,000 words into book five with no end in sight.
Project One - 114 K Project Two - Finally started. Had written about 16 k. Scraped about 90% of it and now I'm about 2 k in. I don't know why this one is giving me such a hard time. I just think I'm over-analyzing it which is further hindering me to really just let loose and just write. Plus, I'm doubting whether my story is now good enough as it is because I just found out that something similar has been done before. I guess I should've expected it, but still... now I'm struggling with telling the story without someone thinking it's similar to the other novel.
The 114K is a HUGE deal, though. I've only actually finished one book, and it was a juvenile chapter book only about 30,000 words long. The rest of my novels typically hit a brick wall, so I've got about five novels sitting in a desktop folder that are about 20-25,000 words each. I think this current one will be the one I finish and pursue publishing on, though.
I'm about 30k words in, or a third through the book. And so far there are... um... two characters. And one cameo.
Hey as long as those characters are developed and the story's interesting, nothing wrong with two MCs!
I've started three stories so far. The first is completely finished. The second is the sequel, with around eleven-twelve chapters left, all of which are devoted to an epic finale (nearly all of these chapters are action scenes). The third book is within the same continuity but set in the Victorian era and so has little relation the characters of the first and second (for now), and I'm about a fifth of the way through. Roughly half of the cast have been introduced and established, but for now my focus is on Book #2.
I have nine chapters written plus the forward. All are rough drafts at this point. with a few having had crude editing done. Not sure exactly where or for how long the story will go, but I am enjoying the ride it is taking me on.
I have the basics of the story completed in a first albeit short draft with all the key events, characters etc embedded. I'm at just over 30k words and now going through it chapter by chapter getting the details and the extra little bits and pieces in. I wanted to make this a novel but with whether there's another 50k words in it I have no idea at the moment Stilll lots of work to do
