Cyber Monday Shopping!
Well. I'm looking at these novel projects and realizing that, while the seven-point outline works really well for my shorts, I think I need something a little more extensive than that for a pair of novels. I pantsed the last novel, and that went all right (because I've apparently been doing the seven-point structure purely by instinct for years before I started using it consciously), but I think for these two I want something a little more... organized.
In the interests of that, I just toddled over to B&N's website, because I had a 25%-off coupon and I didn't get to use the 30%-off coupon over the weekend. I ordered Dave Farland's "Million Dollar Outlines," and "Serenity: Leaves on the Wind." Which should have gotten me free shipping.
And it did--until I applied the discount. Suddenly it's costing me way more because I didn't hit the magic $25 minimum. Aha, sez I, the new Carrie Vaughn is coming out at the end of the month, and I was going to buy that on the day anyway; I'll just pre-order it!
So I did, and that dropped the total price down below what two books would have cost me with shipping, even though the Vaughn book is a pre-order. Go figure.
But that means I have three things I wanted anyway coming to my door for a cost far less than it would have been in the store, and I don't have to leave my house. Win.
ETA: Well, that backfired. Since the Vaughn book isn't coming out until the 30th, that means my entire order will not ship until then. Which means I don't get the outline book in time for it to help me on these two until after the fact. Argh.
Oh well. I will muddle through them without it and then tweak them as needed after I read it. :p
In the interests of that, I just toddled over to B&N's website, because I had a 25%-off coupon and I didn't get to use the 30%-off coupon over the weekend. I ordered Dave Farland's "Million Dollar Outlines," and "Serenity: Leaves on the Wind." Which should have gotten me free shipping.
And it did--until I applied the discount. Suddenly it's costing me way more because I didn't hit the magic $25 minimum. Aha, sez I, the new Carrie Vaughn is coming out at the end of the month, and I was going to buy that on the day anyway; I'll just pre-order it!
So I did, and that dropped the total price down below what two books would have cost me with shipping, even though the Vaughn book is a pre-order. Go figure.
But that means I have three things I wanted anyway coming to my door for a cost far less than it would have been in the store, and I don't have to leave my house. Win.
ETA: Well, that backfired. Since the Vaughn book isn't coming out until the 30th, that means my entire order will not ship until then. Which means I don't get the outline book in time for it to help me on these two until after the fact. Argh.
Oh well. I will muddle through them without it and then tweak them as needed after I read it. :p