Day 2 of 10 Writing FayTown Calling
I decided to do this one live since it’s four in the morning and this day has given me some trouble. I spent the afternoon honing out the sections I had trouble with the night before, only to go back and not really like what I’d done. I don’t know if it’s the concept of what I’ve added or my execution, but I decided to leave it for now and move on.
Tonight didn’t go much better, much as I hate to admit it. I got started around midnight and couldn’t find the flow of things, worse, I kept second guessing what I had and where I was going. That led to me trying to get organized. I storyboarded some concepts (which helped) and wrote some things out in a notebook (which helped some more) and then looked over the chapters I had looking at the work it would take to incorporate them.
Pretty sure that’s where I made the biggest mistake.
So, this is where I stand. I added a whole bunch of words…then took them away, cutting away more as I went. Right now the story is about 93,000 words, giving me a good solid 30,000 to go. No problems there, as some of this stuff I’ll be absorbing back as I go. The problem is my overthinking and overplotting. Outlining is great until you realize its four in the morning and you spent so long thinking about where you wanted to go, that you went no where at all.
My goal tomorrow, get past these major issues. Look over the section I had trouble with to make sure my cuts weren’t catastrophic, then do the fight scene I’ve been gearing up for. After that, there is a major bundle of scenes I’d like to see done tomorrow.
Will update then.
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