vg_ford | Entries tagged with outlining

Just to remind myself:

Apocalypse Cycle
- Get Dark Moon Seasons to publisher
- Write outline for Last Rites
- Record podcast of Not Your Father's Horseman and submit to Podiobooks

Edgewood Trilogy
- Plot outline for trilogy
- Write outline for Descent into Darkness

- Write Snow and turn in to Lilley Press

Pendragon Chronicles
- Finish revising Belladonna Dreams and start shopping it about
- Start outlining Aconite Muse (working title and yes, I know it sucks, but I'm working on a theme here, I think)

- Outline Shanghai
- Outline Blips
- Possibly outline Raindrop Escape

It looks like a lot, but I'd like to get some more books in the outline stage so I can pick them up later. And outlining some of them now will give me the chance to get ahead on the ones that are already contracted.

I don't know if I'm doing NaNo. I'll probably hang out, but I never seem to finish - something ALWAYS comes up. I dunno. If I do, it will most likely be either Shanghai or Aconite. I need to do a LOT more work on Blips before it's ready.

Raindrop has been invading my dreams lately, but although it's a cool concept, I need to do a TON of worldbuilding. I haven't written a high fantasy in YEARS, and my last one was highly beholden (okay, mostly beholden) to Terry Brooks and David Eddings. I want to write Lyssa's story - I just need her to break down and tell me more about her damn world first.

Hmm, looks like I have enough stuff to do one or more challenges at DII. *heads off to look at the forums, whistling...

*editted to add: signed up for the Novel Challenge Level II - Student - 24k and Worldbuilder - Student - 500 words/day. Now I have NO excuses - well, I have lots of excuses...

Well, I wrote tonight. Go me!

I also figured out that my outline was shot to hell, and I had NO clue where I was going. Sooooooo,

I put the rough draft aside and started to wrestle the outline. I've got some good things done on that - the book is making a LOT more sense, and I've found some interesting new characters. However, I don't know if the vampire will remain - he might move over to Descent. I could see Donovan working out there better.

I'm doing the 21-Day Habit Builder at

mad_collective: I got 256 words done on the actual book, and another 1100+ done on the outline. My goal is to write at least 250 words a day for 21 days: I need to get back into the habit of writing every day.

Especially since my schedule is about to get a WHOLE lot more crowded.

I forsee my black book becoming my writing "to-do list," since I have a couple of irons on the fire.

1. Finishing up the edits on Tony's book - this should be done by the end of the week.
2. Dark Moon Seasons - the final needs to be in to Gwen no later than 1/1/07.
3. Broken Wings - looks like this is finally coming off the ground. We're looking at a preliminary launch date of April 2007 (RavenCon, for those going), but my artist and background illustrator need to have time to draw.
4. Belladonna Dreams - I REALLY want to finish this one.

So basically, I need to be WAY more disciplined than I have been lately. I've slacked off this summer. I can't anymore.

Hehe - I love being a writer. Let me at those deadlines!

A Light Through the Darkness

Of course I hit like a girl. Now take it like a man.

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