Trammel: Chapter What Now?
Anah and I just finished up chapter 9 of Trammel a couple days ago and have a little bit of the last chapter left to go. Now, all these chapter markers are coming straight from the outline. They definitely don't reflect where the chapters will be once we're finished with edits, because 10,000 words is pretty long for a single chapter, but it helps keep us organized in the outline and during writing. Each outline-chapter marks a significant event and the sub-events surrounding it, and as we work through the chapters of the outline, we can measure our progress through the plot by ticking off chapter markers.
How will we figure out where to move the chapter markers to during edits? I'm not sure. We changed some during the edits of Tatterdemalion, adding extra chapters here and there to break up long ones and better show shifts in the romance and character arcs, so I imagine that's what will happen this time, too.
And there are a lot of shifts in the romance and character arcs.
I feel like this story is perhaps even more complex, emotionally, than Tatterdemalion. Anah and I are not big fans of the breakup-backtogether method of creating romantic tension in a series, but the political arc of the story definitely sets in motion a lot of changes for the characters -- individually and as a group.
And those changes will help us mark out where the final chapters should go.
...I hope.
How will we figure out where to move the chapter markers to during edits? I'm not sure. We changed some during the edits of Tatterdemalion, adding extra chapters here and there to break up long ones and better show shifts in the romance and character arcs, so I imagine that's what will happen this time, too.
And there are a lot of shifts in the romance and character arcs.
I feel like this story is perhaps even more complex, emotionally, than Tatterdemalion. Anah and I are not big fans of the breakup-backtogether method of creating romantic tension in a series, but the political arc of the story definitely sets in motion a lot of changes for the characters -- individually and as a group.
And those changes will help us mark out where the final chapters should go.
...I hope.