Navigating Your Course
What do I mean by navigating your course? Well, not sure about you, but because I'm a pantser my first draft is all over the place. I have characters who need to find a job or get lost; plot bits that are like symbols in a dream (I know there is a reason they came out of my head but what?); and a structure that needs real shoring up. To do so I must constantly be checking where it is I want to get to in this revision. I need to keep checking my co-ordinates to make sure I'm on course to have a draft that tells the whole story and in the right order. I do that in a number of ways - I keep checking my beat sheet to see that I'm paying attention to changes that I marked or questions that I had in various scenes. I check my back story - the one that I wrote after the first draft about what has been happening behind the scenes. I check my character studies to make sure I'm being true to their desires, thwarts and discoveries. And lastly, I write a synopsis. Yep, I do my synopsis late in the game - but the simple telling of the story really helps me make sure I'm sailing in the right direction. That's what I'm doing today. I'm stalled again near the end of my first draft - because the ending isn't right. I thought of writing my ending now and then going back to weave it in, but my intuition is that I'll be forcing something - so instead I'm going to try the synopsis approach. I'm so close - and I have thirty days of revising left - so really want this part done - the ending I mean - so I can go back and attend to a myriad of details both macro and micro.
A Side Note about writing in the time of the plague
As I said yesterday, I am struggling to stay focused. I want to watch the Great Canadian Baking Show and play a zillion games of solitaire (not online - haven't fallen into that hole yet). I'm trying to be both strict and kind with my self, but it is a tricky dance. This A to Z helps even if I only usually have one reader! (hi dear Margot!) I was going to stop it because I realize that although I've signed up for it several times, I'm not on Lee's list (Lee is Arlee Bird who created the A to Z challenge over at Tossing It Out . Not sure what the hitch is, but I decided I would carry on anyway. The day to day checking in with my own revising process is working out well. Walking helps and I'm so glad we live in the country where I get to see deer and rabbits almost every day. But today it is raining and even the dog doesn't seem that interested. I will go forward with all my projects, the revision being the main one, but it feels like I'm walking through mud most days.
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Thanks for the shout-out, Jan! And I'm very glad that you're carrying on with the A-Z. I'm finding that having a purpose and a regular sort of schedule, even in these times, help me to keep my focus. Also very helpful in my writing. I'm more of a planner anyway, but even on those 'pantser days,' I find that some structure helps.
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