Jul - 18th
Three Weeks - Novel Outline Complete in Just 9 Days!!!
Posted at 6:06 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction
Boy, am I happy! I was expecting my Three Weeks novel outline to be completed by Sunday evening. I thought I’d be busy all weekend with it. Instead, I finished it up today. Actually, it was all written up yesterday, but today I went back over everything, filled in holes, adjusted the order of some [...]
Jul - 16th
Getting Into the Head of Your Characters
Posted at 11:23 am | Filed Under Book Outlining, Characters, My Projects, Writing Fiction
While outlining Three Weeks, I’m doing what I can to get into the mind of my main character (Jillian). As the book involves her looking back over failed relationships, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately doing the same - trying to bring up old emotions for example. I posted about my efforts to [...]
Jul - 13th
Comparing 30-Day Novel Outline Plans
Posted at 11:57 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Resources & Reviews, Writing Fiction
I’ve mentioned this here before, but not in too much detail. When I launched this blog, I was nearing the end of one 30-day novel outline program for my book with a working title Sarah. With that novel outline (which finished up this past Saturday), I followed the plan detailed in First Draft in 30 [...]
Jul - 11th
Three Weeks Novel Outline - An Early Finish?
Posted at 11:45 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction
I poured through the rest of the 30-day plan’s worksheets and steps from Book in a Month today. As mentioned before, the plan is designed to help you outline and draft your novel, although right now I’m only using it for outlining Three Weeks.
I scrapped the character note cards I was going to be using [...]
Jul - 11th
Three Weeks - Novel Outline - Day 3
Posted at 4:03 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction
As expected, yesterday’s “scene cards” took more than one day (given that I used 17 instead of 10). Yesterday I took care of the first 10, and today I finished up the remaining 7. I also managed to get through Day 3’s tasks - a research list and an At-a-Glance outline. Given the way my [...]
Jul - 10th
Three Weeks - Novel Outline - Day 2 and Plan Deviations
Posted at 1:01 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction
I mentioned yesterday that I wouldn’t be following the Book in a Month plan exactly as it’s laid out in the book, so today I’m going to talk a bit about how I’m altering that plan to meet my needs for these 30 days, and more specifically how that will affect my use of “scene [...]
Jul - 9th
Three Weeks - Novel Outline - Day 1
Posted at 6:20 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction
Today I began work on my second novel outline of the summer - for a humorous piece I’m calling Three Weeks.
When I detailed my progress on the previous novel outline (which I’ll finish cleaning up on Saturday), I didn’t give many details about the actual story. I’ll still be somewhat vague here (not so much [...]
Jul - 8th
Moving on to a New Novel Outline
Posted at 12:45 am | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction
I’m happy to say that tomorrow (technically later today at this hour), I should be finished up with writing the outline for the novel I’m referring to here only as Sarah. I still have four days left of my 30-day plan to clean that outline up, fill in any holes, etc., so it’s not quite [...]
Jul - 7th
Keeping Track of Subplots While Outlining a Novel
Posted at 7:31 am | Filed Under Book Outlining, Writing Fiction
I’m nearly finished outlining a novel (this will be the second completed novel outline with a third starting in a few weeks). The first novel was outlined using The Marshall Plan. The current novel outline is being put together using the plan from First Draft in 30 Days. (The next will be outlined using the [...]
