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).
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Two days left for research. I ended up not using any of the extra worksheets provided in the book yesterday. Only one (the fact sheet) really applied well to my story, and I’d rather use note cards for things like that (I’m a note card junkie).  That’s the beauty of any plan like this I [...]

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I took care of my clipping and organizing yesterday, attaching research notes to the appropriate character sketches and such as planned.
However, I didn’t get a chance to do anything with the extra worksheets from the book. That’s because I try to work on my novel outlining in the evenings, and last night we had one [...]

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Just four more days left dedicated to research for the first novel I’m outlining for this project. My goal for tomorrow is to take some of the simple background research I’ve done and start attaching highlighted pages and note cards to my character sheets, setting sketches, etc. I’ll also be going through some of the [...]

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I didn’t see a need to update on the novel research project over the weekend. So here’s instead an update for Saturday, Sunday, and today - my days 7-9 (which are days 10-12 in the First Draft in 30 Days program if I’m not mistaken).
As mentioned previously, I picked up several films to watch in [...]

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Today was my sixth day in outlining a new novel using the program outlined in First Draft in 30 Days. It was my third research day, and technically day 9 in the book’s plan.
I finished pulling up and bookmarking basic sources I’ll be going through for background research in the next few days. I would [...]

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Just a quick updated today - as I mentioned yesterday, I’m a bit ahead of the game in my 30-day effort to outline / draft a new novel based on the book, First Draft in 30 Days. While I’m on Day 5, if you follow the book’s plan, this would be Day 8.
I’m in the [...]

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Today was my fourth day of working on the first of two novels testing out different drafting / outlining programs. According to the program I’m following in First Draft in 30 Days, I’m on Day 7 (I finished some other aspects up quicker than scheduled), which is the first of my research days. There won’t [...]

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(Note: This post was originally published at All Freelance Writing.)
Today was the third day of experimenting with the First Draft in 30 Days program for drafting / outlining a novel (as discussed in this post). I’d already mapped out the basics of my characters and settings. Today was about the plot.
While I had the main [...]

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(Note: This post was originally published at All Freelance Writing.)
Well, I haven’t given up on this first novel project after just one day, so that’s progress. Yesterday I had to think about characters. Today I had to start thinking more about settings, and the things I’ll need to research soon to flesh out the story [...]

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