So, it's been almost a whole quarter since I've posted a blog entry. Yeah, right after I posted that last one, I got a job. It is a stressful job where I joined up right at the busy period, but managed to pull through without losing any appendages (literal, familial or metaphorical).
Now that I have things on a more even (or less turbulent) keel, I will list my plan for 2013 and for the two projects I've started: Blood Stone, the novel and Gravedigger, the short story.
In the time between their writing/first rough edit, I've digested the book Story Engineering and now have a solid plan on where to go next with these two projects. Back to the outline, for both. Not that I'm scrapping the 70K+ words that I've written. Just that I'm reforging the outline and then taking the material that I have and working it into the spaces of that outline. Like a puzzle... a hot mess of a puzzle.
So that's the plan. Starting with the characters, their definitions, their lessons and then the outline (based on those presented by Larry Brooks).
If only I had that book before I started... blah blah blah.
I have it now. I have the motivation, and I have the scheduled time to do it.
There will be a progress report in about a week's time, since one of my 2013 goals (NOT resolutions... goals) is to write a blog post once a week.
So I look at the stack of paperwork in front of me, the blank beat sheet form and am not feeling at all overwhelmed... I just think, "They've got me surrounded... those poor bastards."
As always, thanks for reading and thanks for your support!
~Stephan
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