Hello, friends!
It's 35 minutes until day one of novel planning is finished, and I must say that it has most certainly been a productive first day. Firstly, I wrote down my three main ideas that I have had for ages - I named them 'Confidence', 'Ghost' and 'Josey', just to make it easier for me to know which I am talking about. I quickly wrote about how the plots could improve, and the reasons why I always start then stop writing them.
I ended up flipping a coin to choose between Confidence and Ghost. Confidence was the winner. With that one, I needed more substance and stronger characters. I've always had issues with characterisation, but in this story, it was really bad because I kept changing the entire personality of my central character.
I started my planning! I've decided to loosely base my planning on the Snowflake Method which I used in the past, but it failed. I think that I was following the steps too closely, so now I've been trying to just use it as a guide. This has definitely been working for me!
So far I've written a one sentence summary, and paragraph summary and basic character sheets on three of my characters. Bare in mind I have been room cleaning and partying tonight, so I haven't done as much as I have liked.
I was so on a roll (especially with name picking) that I didn't even want to go to this party tonight. Although I'm so glad I did, because the party was amazing! Just clarifying, this was a dinner party, not a rave or anything. Just sayin'.
So, I'm hoping to do a bit more now, but I'm on protecting-the-dog-while-there's-a-thunderstorm duty while my parents are sleeping, so I don't think that I will be getting much done at all! I means, it's taking me AGES just to write this blog post!
Look forward to writing more!
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