@KARiley40 I'd love to hear more about your novel.
Can you tell us more?
Maybe about the process itself? How many words did you arrange?
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Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 22:05:52 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 -
Kimberly A. Riley (kariley40@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 22:35:00 CEST Kimberly A. Riley @ekaitz_zarraga It's a fantasy trope subversion. Think, every mentor in every fantasy ever, who is older and doomed to die. So, she's got to find a way out of destiny.
So, my process is, I write to about the halfway point, then I go back and start edits. At this point, I have a solid handle on the world building.
This helps me refine the story beats and brings me back to the middle point, now with the lore and characters fleshed out.
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Kimberly A. Riley (kariley40@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 22:38:16 CEST Kimberly A. Riley @ekaitz_zarraga This has ripple effects. Minor changes build and I am left rewriting or removing large sections.
It also forces me to focus my world building down to specifics.
However, because the book isn't finished, then it only affects things up to the midpoint.
Then, I'm able to finish the book, because I now know where the characters are going and why.
Then more edits and polishing. That tends to be the processes I use.
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Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 23:41:02 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 @KARiley40 But i guess your schema of the whole thing is already done and you have a clear ending or just messing around until you get something?
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Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 23:44:12 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 @KARiley40 It's really interesting. I'd really like to have more tools when writing long stories, texts or even novels.
That's the abstraction level I need to find. At drawing, sculpting, programming, etc it appears. It's the planning, the ability to predict the result before you do it.
I lack that skill and that's why often my whole process feels really random or out of control.Get what I mean?
Is it called mastery maybe, right?
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