New Novel

[hamletta]

I've started on the new novel. I was hoping to have a better outline before diving into it, but I feel like I need to get to know these people a bit better before I can add more details to the outline. What I'm doing now may just end up being exploratory, testing the voices of the characters and setting up the scenes. Even so, it will probably push me along faster than just staring at the outline of the outline.

I'm also experimenting with the outline function in Scrivener -- using colour-coding for pov tracks. It's more flexible than I thought (low benchmark, though, as I never really gave it a try). So far the only thing I don't like is the fact that the planned chapters (or index cards) appear as chapters of the manuscript in the binder. This will be super helpful once they are done and I want to shuffle things around, but until I then I prefer the binder to show only the things I've actually written.  I guess I can get used to it, or if not, I can always move the unwritten "chapters" into a folder within the manuscript.

Anyway. The first 1,000 done. Only 99,000 or so to go...

Comments

[howsmyenglish]

Sounds fascinating! The thought of starting something so big frightens me (no wonder seeing as I've been writing my diss for years and years now), but it's like a new adventure... maybe i can learn to look at it this way..:)
Good luck! I hope it's fun (and not only struggle and feelings of insecurity)