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![]() It's been rather quiet here as of late. The reason... I've actually been writing. Which was kind of the point of this whole exercise. Needless to say, I'm pretty darned chuffed. It feels like such a long time ago that I was jotting down ideas in my writer's journal; thinking about different plot ideas and how many twists and turns I could incorporate into my roller-coaster story. It doesn't feel like too long ago that I posted a picture of my plotting progress, though. I am still very early on in the actual writing process, but I am much farther along now. If you missed it, this is a picture of my wall a few weeks back: The second picture is all about collating the notes into a spreadsheet. The headers on that spreadsheet include: Scene # / Date / Focus Character / Characters / Location / Plot-Action / Sub-Plots / Notes / #Words # being 'Number of'... the conventional meaning. #OldSkool, right? So, I populated the entire sheet with all of the individual plot points (of which there were 68 across the three acts). Then, I got to writing. Along the way, I thought I would tell a bunch of people about what I was doing. I had a few work colleagues who expressed an interest so I bit the bullet and asked, "Will you be my beta reader?". Thankfully, they agreed and this weekend I posted off my first three chapters for review. So far, I've had some glowing responses, great critique and this is really spurring me on.
So, although my original idea of writing a book start to finish without worrying about the nitty-gritty went out of the window, I'm having a great time getting into the story. Come to think about it, this is probably the first 'writing journey' blog post that I've written since the outset and I thought I would give you all an update. Thank you so much for following me. If you don't already, you can find links to my social media accounts on my homepage. I will definitely be posting more blogs about writing tips moving forwards. Just to let you know about the little things that I've learned. Thank you for reading! Until next time...
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Nina
5/11/2017 07:37:24 pm
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the first chapters. I love your ideas. Your blog is very informative, I like knowing what you're working on.
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Hi, I'm Phil Williams. Welcome to my blog.
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