Three Weeks - Novel Outline Complete in Just 9 Days!!!
Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction July 18th, 2008
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 of the relationships, etc. for better flow.
So it’s finished, and in just 9 DAYS! That includes the 78-page full outline, the abbreviated outline laid out in “scene card” format with 17 pages (actually 5″ x 8″ note cards), 16 full character sketches, character notes for more minor characters, some very minor research (this didn’t need much at all), and my setting sketches / notes.
I’m glad I didn’t follow the Book in a Month 30-day plan, and instead just used some of the resources in it to find my own way. I suppose I’m most happy that I’m getting so comfortable with the outlining process.
Now that I have three finished novel outlines sitting here, I suppose it’s soon going to be time to get on some drafting. However, I’m going to take a few weeks off from these novels for now. I want to do minor notes on my other book ideas, work on my non-fiction book interviews quite a bit, and finally get this Web Writer’s Guide e-book finished.
