come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me!
As a follow on from my previous post I would like it noted I have take a step in the right direction in one of my projects: I have planned an ending.
Sure, I'm not writing it very fast, and I keep getting distracted by whisky, and the internet (Doctor Who fans should see this if they haven't already. It makes me gleeful and perfectly sums up Mr. Tennant's captaincy of the TARDIS) but I am making some progress. I am navigating my characters to their final destination, namely the Grand Canyon, and soon the apocalypse will be in full swing and all that jazz. But I'm happy I have an ending! Just needs to be written.
The next part, editing, is something I've only done in two different ways. The first is really short pieces, that didn't need much change anyway. The second is going back and changing bits, and rewriting unfinished stuff. I've never edited something finished before!
My first plan is to have a read (after a small break), and pick any plot holes up. Then I'll flesh out the weak scenes, parts, characters, themes, etc, before going into nitty gritty sentence structure, the flow of the whole thing and such. The word count needs a good beefing up, it's really not how big as it should be. It currently stands at 32k, hopefully up to 35-40k by the end. But editing always adds a lot of words, I find. (Comparitively my other unfinished novel is about 52k, and has a bit to go as well...)
Oh how exciting! :D
Sure, I'm not writing it very fast, and I keep getting distracted by whisky, and the internet (Doctor Who fans should see this if they haven't already. It makes me gleeful and perfectly sums up Mr. Tennant's captaincy of the TARDIS) but I am making some progress. I am navigating my characters to their final destination, namely the Grand Canyon, and soon the apocalypse will be in full swing and all that jazz. But I'm happy I have an ending! Just needs to be written.
The next part, editing, is something I've only done in two different ways. The first is really short pieces, that didn't need much change anyway. The second is going back and changing bits, and rewriting unfinished stuff. I've never edited something finished before!
My first plan is to have a read (after a small break), and pick any plot holes up. Then I'll flesh out the weak scenes, parts, characters, themes, etc, before going into nitty gritty sentence structure, the flow of the whole thing and such. The word count needs a good beefing up, it's really not how big as it should be. It currently stands at 32k, hopefully up to 35-40k by the end. But editing always adds a lot of words, I find. (Comparitively my other unfinished novel is about 52k, and has a bit to go as well...)
Oh how exciting! :D