Day 8 of 90
I didn’t take as many notes today, but I have dived into the process of starting the outline. This is a very, very loose outline. In fact, I’m only recording what I believe to be the most solid...
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Managed to finish my writing exercises early this week. I’m playing with the outline a bit more. The overall story is still vague at this point. I do like this idea of working backward, though. I like...
View ArticleDay 10 of 90
Milestone day. Day 10. It means I only have about 80 days left. This morning was more main character / antagonist exploration. I’m starting to drill down into the complication of the story dilemma. I’m...
View ArticleDay 11 of 90
I managed about 2500 words of notes today. Most of these were focused on what sprung from the daily writing exercises. Today it was apparent I need to work more on the secondary characters. Today I...
View ArticleDay 12 of 90
Very productive morning. I managed a good hour’s worth of recordings. More protagonist and antagonist studies along with some thoughts on the second act. Again, lots of notes. I also worked on my...
View ArticleDays 13, 14, and 15 of 90
I didn’t post this weekend, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t stick to my daily writing goals. In fact, I think I put down about 10k in notes. And I’ve gotten better with the transcribing. Hopefully, I...
View ArticleDay 16 of 90
Good stuff today. If I’ve learned anything big from the 90 day novel it’s this, during a story’s early brainstorming stage, hold the story together in your head loosely. This has been a tremendous help...
View ArticleDay 17 of 90
This is the end. Well, at least I worked up to the ending with my loose story concept. I have through-lines now to explore for each of my main characters. I’m still a bit in the shade when it comes to...
View ArticleDay 18 of 90
Great progress on some character work today. I’ve dived back into Leena’s (my main character) point of view. Revised some earlier thoughts on her motivations and social interactions based on her...
View ArticleDay 19 of 90
Today’s progress amounted to a pass through Leena’s throughline. I’m doing this for each of the characters. Emerald, the big moth creature, who is the closest thing to an antagonist is next. This whole...
View ArticleDay 20 of 90
I’m sitting at about 55k in 0 draft material. So what is a 0 draft? I think it’s different for each writer, but what seems to be a universal truth about the 0 draft is that it is shared with no one....
View ArticleDay 21 of 90
Small progress this morning. I clocked in with about 1300 words. Not too bad, but I think Cmdr. Drake’s through-line is a bit thinner than Emerald’s or Leena’s. And this is a good thing. The hero and...
View ArticleDay 22 of 90
Not a lot of notes today. I’ve decided I have enough now to start piecing things together. I compiled my 55k worth of notes out into a manuscript this morning. Most of what I’ll do this week is go...
View ArticleDay 23 of 90
No new story revelations at this point. I’m still organizing notes, shoring up a few character motivations, and organizing possible chapters in Scrivener. This will likely be the progress for the rest...
View ArticleDay 24 of 90
Wow, kind of late with today’s post. Sorry about that. I had to work late doing day job stuff last night, so I slept in later than normal (but I created a really kick-ass map thingy for work). I was a...
View ArticleDay 25, 26 of 90
For the second time in the writing of this novel, I have an outline (for reference, this is the first time) and it is a thing of beauty. Clearly, I need to dedicate a longer amount of time to the...
View ArticleFirst Draft of “Night Witches” Complete
I managed to complete a short story today. It’s tiny, coming in at around 1700 words. It’s a WW2 horror story, very much in the style of an old Twilight Zone episode. It was hecka fun to write, despite...
View ArticleDay 30 of 90
Yeah, I skipped a couple of days in the process. I think that’s acceptable, I’m not working on actual prose that will be the first draft of the novel. Let me tell you, that feels like real progress. I...
View ArticleDay 31 of 90
Chapter 1 is complete! Chapter one is about 5 scenes with a total word count of about 6k. Here’s my fancy word count meter: The process is working well, so far. I wake up, review yesterday’s writing...
View ArticleDay 32 of 90
Scene 1, Chapter 2 is done! Ha, that’s kind of deceiving, isn’t it. That word. Done. In the software development world we have a concept called done-done, because developers, no matter what you ask...
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