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selenicseasI got back on track for the month on Monday and have hit my minimum word goal every day since. I’m still working on cleaning up the outline and actually naming things. I haven’t got to the part where I have to start outlining something entirely new due to the changes in the plot, but it’ll be happening soon. In fact, I think it will be happening sometime later today.
It feels weird to call what I’m doing “writing” even though it’s all pre-writing. I haven’t produced any prose or script at all this year – in fact, I haven’t done any actual writing since November! And it could be another couple of months before I’ve got enough of an outline to start any serious writing.
I could start writing before the outline is entirely done. I know how the story’s going to end and the rough strokes of how it’s going to get there. I’m not going to hit a wall and not know what’s going to happen next.
But I’ve run into problems before where I completely lose my writing flow when I have to name a person, or a location, or create some words of a conlang, or draw something on a map. It can actually get bad enough that I’m thrown off for days at a time, and I want to avoid that as much as possible. So, no writing until I’ve got 90% of what I know I need for sure.
It feels weird to call what I’m doing “writing” even though it’s all pre-writing. I haven’t produced any prose or script at all this year – in fact, I haven’t done any actual writing since November! And it could be another couple of months before I’ve got enough of an outline to start any serious writing.
I could start writing before the outline is entirely done. I know how the story’s going to end and the rough strokes of how it’s going to get there. I’m not going to hit a wall and not know what’s going to happen next.
But I’ve run into problems before where I completely lose my writing flow when I have to name a person, or a location, or create some words of a conlang, or draw something on a map. It can actually get bad enough that I’m thrown off for days at a time, and I want to avoid that as much as possible. So, no writing until I’ve got 90% of what I know I need for sure.
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