Funny, just last week I was working on a whole bunch of projects and now it’s down to two. This is why I redo my writing schedule frequently.<\/p>\n
I declared the first draft of Current Book done.\u00c2\u00a0I’m not going to let it sit for long (I already started reworking the beginning), but I want to make a push on revising Previous Book so I can get farther ahead of what my crit group is seeing.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are still scenes to write near the end, but I also want to rejigger the end of the outline, and the writing was getting fragmented and hypothetical (as in, “if I have this scene here’s what it will be”, or “can’t write this until I decide whether it’s before or after that other scene”) so it seemed better to just stop and write the rest in the second draft.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is only the second book I’ve outlined before writing, and I had similar problems with the end of the previous one. Those of you who outline, do you manage to get the end right in the outline?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Funny, just last week I was working on a whole bunch of projects and now it’s down to two. This is why I redo my writing schedule frequently. I declared the first draft of Current Book done.\u00c2\u00a0I’m not going to … Continue reading