Partners in Time: The Series
A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of a book/series
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While looking over my outline notes a couple days ago, I realized with some shock that I was probably 3/4ths of the way through writing PIT5. This surprised me a little...I'd lost all track of time (no pun intended) and had been so focused at methodically plodding (ha, I wrote "plotting") along, crossing off chaps as I completed them, that I hadn't glanced ahead in a while.
I'm a couple pages into Chapter 18 right now (a Meg chapter) and the last one on my outline is a Chapter 24. So, yeah.
Despite the hassle of having no laptop on which to write away from home, I've managed to get about half a page of progress/day this week. I've printed out the most recent page/s of the story, reread and marked it up as I went, then added more either on paper or on a computer. (Then I e-mail myself the text, cut and paste it into the document, and presto.) This is how I used to write on the fly, and I'd forgotten that...it is a bit of a pain. But paradoxically I seem to write more in this sort of way. I think because it's awfully hard to surf the 'net when you have only a pen and paper at your disposal. (Well, there's the iPhone's foul temptation, but...yeah.)
I would be a fool to set a goal of completing Chapter 18 this weekend. Yes, it's a holiday weekend and yes, I am going nowhere. But I also have about 90 essays to grade that I've put off the last couple weeks...ugh. With three weeks left of this school year, things are going to get a wee bit crazy. Again. What else is new?
-K
I'm a couple pages into Chapter 18 right now (a Meg chapter) and the last one on my outline is a Chapter 24. So, yeah.
Despite the hassle of having no laptop on which to write away from home, I've managed to get about half a page of progress/day this week. I've printed out the most recent page/s of the story, reread and marked it up as I went, then added more either on paper or on a computer. (Then I e-mail myself the text, cut and paste it into the document, and presto.) This is how I used to write on the fly, and I'd forgotten that...it is a bit of a pain. But paradoxically I seem to write more in this sort of way. I think because it's awfully hard to surf the 'net when you have only a pen and paper at your disposal. (Well, there's the iPhone's foul temptation, but...yeah.)
I would be a fool to set a goal of completing Chapter 18 this weekend. Yes, it's a holiday weekend and yes, I am going nowhere. But I also have about 90 essays to grade that I've put off the last couple weeks...ugh. With three weeks left of this school year, things are going to get a wee bit crazy. Again. What else is new?
-K