I'm more of an excel type of woman. I've already created an Excel for the future reading project. That will happend after I have taken a break from the manuscript. Well actually not in the last scene, but in that one scene that I didn't write when it was next. There is an exchange of information, which should be made to look like something other than boring info dump. But the end of zero version is almost in my hands. I've joked that it's turning into a brick. And it doesn't say much about anything. In accordance with the truth, they just sometimes go to work, cook, eat it, watch a TV series, visiting, go to the library, a couple of parties and talk :' D I use a large piece of paper, pen, markers and sticky notes to plan the story. I already bought those. Another story is waiting as I take a break from the friendship story.
I'm thinking of introducing a spreadsheet into my plotting, to keep track of all the subplots and relationships throughout the book. Something I'm working on for my next round of outlining 😆 I've definitely done the sticky note method and large paper when I've gotten stuck!
How do you decide what you'd want to change in a chapter? Is it just the flow of the prose? Something you've wanted to include in or remove? I feel like I'm editing before even finishing the chapter. ;-;
So at this stage, I'm changing the story, rather than the sentences themselves. I'm reading it as a reader, and thinking about what doesn't make sense, or which bits feel boring and like they're not necessary for the story (these get cut). I'm also catching continuity errors, and changing elements of scenes that don't make sense because of the things I've cut or changed. I do my best to ignore the prose for now, because at this point anything could get deleted. 🫣
@@vawinter I have a writer friend who writes slowly because she writes a very polished text, but what if she has to delete a scene, all that slow work is for nothing. If I'm describing what I'm doing, I just throw up the text as it comes, even though I know it's not good language. Later, when editing, I think more about how it should be implemented. I'm not saying it's all bad, but it's not all good either.
I love your voice ❤
I'm more of an excel type of woman. I've already created an Excel for the future reading project. That will happend after I have taken a break from the manuscript. Well actually not in the last scene, but in that one scene that I didn't write when it was next. There is an exchange of information, which should be made to look like something other than boring info dump. But the end of zero version is almost in my hands. I've joked that it's turning into a brick. And it doesn't say much about anything. In accordance with the truth, they just sometimes go to work, cook, eat it, watch a TV series, visiting, go to the library, a couple of parties and talk :' D
I use a large piece of paper, pen, markers and sticky notes to plan the story. I already bought those. Another story is waiting as I take a break from the friendship story.
I'm thinking of introducing a spreadsheet into my plotting, to keep track of all the subplots and relationships throughout the book. Something I'm working on for my next round of outlining 😆
I've definitely done the sticky note method and large paper when I've gotten stuck!
How do you decide what you'd want to change in a chapter? Is it just the flow of the prose? Something you've wanted to include in or remove? I feel like I'm editing before even finishing the chapter. ;-;
That's what I do, I do a lot of editing as I write my first draft.
@@EmmaBennetAuthor yeah it's been a lot of editing as I go on my end
So at this stage, I'm changing the story, rather than the sentences themselves. I'm reading it as a reader, and thinking about what doesn't make sense, or which bits feel boring and like they're not necessary for the story (these get cut). I'm also catching continuity errors, and changing elements of scenes that don't make sense because of the things I've cut or changed.
I do my best to ignore the prose for now, because at this point anything could get deleted. 🫣
@@vawinter I have a writer friend who writes slowly because she writes a very polished text, but what if she has to delete a scene, all that slow work is for nothing. If I'm describing what I'm doing, I just throw up the text as it comes, even though I know it's not good language. Later, when editing, I think more about how it should be implemented. I'm not saying it's all bad, but it's not all good either.