Novel Writing - Days 13 - 14

June 12, 2008

I’m technically supposed to be spending Day 13 finishing up research. However, I feel pretty comfortable with where I am with that right now, so I’m going to move ahead to the next step (which keeps me one day ahead of schedule, so I can take a break or use it later for another step).

So I’ll be spending some time Friday and Saturday working on something called a Story Evolution Worksheet from First Draft in 30 Days. This part will actually be more writing-oriented, and will force me to work through the basic conflict and story threads a bit from beginning to end. So here’s where I’ll really start to see where my subplots are lacking, and hopefully in the process, I’ll be able to flesh it all out and tie it all together in a somewhat cleaner fashion.

I may even end up using that extra day on this, and going through Sunday - will update at that point.

And on another note, tomorrow I promise to try and get an actual post about book marketing up for you - and we’ll be talking about virtual / blog publicity tours not too far in the future, but more on that later….