Weekly Check In Post

[boothros.livejournal.com]

Hello, Pro’s fans, it once again falls to me to greet you all with a weekly check in post which gives me a horrifying reminder of how fast this year is racing past!

Are you like me, facing a long endless tunnel of writing with seemingly no end, or are you sorted, sitting pretty and feeling justifiably pleased with yourself?

Either way, a quick reminder that the artist sign ups open very soon (as if we didn’t have ENOUGH to do) so there’s no rest for those fingers just yet!

Wishing you all a successful, productive and safe week, this is Boothros signing out in order to re-watch Doyle defusing an atomic bomb…

Comments

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

We like Swiss cheese! I write my stories exactly the way you describe it - bits and pieces first and fill them in later. For the rough draft you only need to put a comment (or note) in between the pieces that are written saying something like 'Bodie argues with Cowley here" or 'Doyle gets in trouble talking to a snitch') We just want to know that you have an idea of where the story is going. So word count and a sort of outline for the bits you haven't quite figured out yet. Does that help?

Enjoy your shopping!

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, thank you, that does.

I never worked this way before. I normally have everything in my head - so I can tell you exactly where I'm going with a story, but I can't show you until I've written it - except for what I call 'plot points' - jottings to avoid plot holes (such as 'Doyle can't ride a bike he broke his leg in Chptr 3').

But lately I've been so tired it's made it hard to juggle all that together with RL in my head, as I would normally do.

So I wrote the whole lot out as chapter notes with a projected word count (because ages back I settled on a comfortable word count for chapters).

It feels a bit like painting by numbers, but I've left myself room to meander, and it appears to be working because I've written a bit more today.

Going to take a break now though :0)