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 [...]
Jun - 27th
Setting Up a Book Writing Schedule with Multiple Projects
Posted at 10:56 pm | Filed Under General, My Projects
One of my biggest problems in any type of writing that I do is the fact that I have an endless supply of ideas that I want to pursue. Given that there are only so many hours in a day, writing books and e-books can feel like an impossible feat.
So I’m going to kick off [...]
