Didn't write a new chapter this past week. I'm at the point on Mists where I'm caught up to my notes/building draft combo and need to expand it before I can write the next few 0/rough draft chapters. And with Tirs, I've just started a Narrative/Notes draft combo. The rough draft barely has interesting lines; anything before that has nuthin'. lol ( Read more... )

So, what is the notes draft. The notes draft is kind of an expansion on the narrative draft: telling, no description, no showing, limited dialogue; '(describe)' is written after anything that needs description; author reminders and background notes are embedded; and I'm adding to world building notes. I'm still working out the story, still ( Read more... )

Phoenix is at the building draft stage (see more about the stages in my writing here). While the notes draft has a lot of expansion going on, it's still more about determining what's what in the story and figuring out what I need in terms of world building ( Read more... )

So, a few people thought a post explaining a little on my process would be interesting. I do plan to one day pull it all together in a nice nonfiction book, but this will have to do for now.

When I posted my comment at Stephen Leigh that my planning is a 10+ on the organized scale, I meant it. But it's something of a different kind of " ( Read more... )

LAst Heir rough draft
starting count: 44,846
ending count: 46,591
gain/loss: +1745

Actual (processed) word count: 2106
Total for the Day: 2106

And, done! Whew! Heeee! The Heroes trilogy is now drafted. The last 2 books need a look see for expansion before I can actually begin revisions, but they are done and the last book is being ( Read more... )