I just finished another 1,000 words of Next Life. I was hoping to get a little more done tonight, but I started late again, and decided to stop working as close to 8:30 PM as I could because I have to get to bed. I’ve got a long day tomorrow. It’s still moving pretty well.…
After a few weeks of on-again-off-again outlining, the novel version of my novella, “Graveyard Shift” is officially underway. I wrote the first half of Chapter One tonight, doing just about 1,400 words in an hour and a half and I feel really good about what I have written thus far. Of course, it is just…
Okay, so this evening I made outstanding progress on the outline for the expanded version of “Graveyard Shift”. There are three parts to the novel. Each part has 11 chapters and is roughly 30,000 words, which means on average, each chapter is 2,700 words long. (That’s not hard and fast, just something to aim toward.)…
Earlier, I complained that I wasn’t writing much lately and that is true when it comes to my fiction. But it may be a little misleading, because I have been jotting down lots of notes on the plot and characters for the expanded version of “Graveyard Shift”. These notes, handwritten on paper in tiny prints,…
I spent another hour or so on the plot outlining of NextLife, outlining the various threads from the point of view of the six major characters. Things are really starting to fall into place. A couple more hours of this and I will be able to put together a timeline that fits all these threads…
More plotting tonight on NextLife. I wrote a very rough outline of one entire plot thread that runs through the complete story, with two of the six major characters as the primary people in the thread. This is an important thread as it serves as the backbone for the rest of the story and provides…
No writing tonight, but I spent the last hour or so filling in more details of the plot and why things are happening, as well as motivations behind the various characters and how those motivations influence the actions that characters will take throughout the story. I’ve got nearly a full handwritten page in microscopic pencil…
Writing isn’t always writing. Tonight, I spent the time I usually set aside to work on some outlining and character sketching for NextLife, my first ever attempt at a science fiction novel. I have a pretty good strategy that I use when writing short stories. (Most of the advice I have gotten for the writing…
You can’t possibly go through the experience I went through this weekend and not be inspired to write. I mentioned earlier that I did some outlining at the ball game earlier today on the expanded version of my novella, “Graveyard Shift”. I had enough to get started (finally) actually writing, and this evening, I wrote…
I know what you’re thinking. I already have too many projects. I have the SCIENCE FICTION AGE reviews (which are on hiatus during the month of April). I have my Italian lessons (which I have been ignoring of late). I have my workouts (from which I am taking a break this week). And I am…