Awww Yeah

Fixing plot holes, cleaning up dialogue and keeping characters consistent. This is what it's allllll about ladies and gentlemen!

...just not at 1 in the morning, heh.

Also...IS SOMEONE MOVING SHEET METAL OUTSIDE? What the heck is going on out there?

Chapter 1

I finally finished Chapter 1 rewrite. The ending of the chapter ended up being new material, because of the order change that I made. I think that this format works much better than the one I had before. This way the characters are introduced a little better and I can give the reader a better idea of what's going on. In the previous version the motives and general plot was much more ambiguous. A friend of mine pointed that out to me last summer, so I think this time I finally finished it. I'm on to Chapter 2 now, which was the original Chapter 1. Chapter 3 will be in the same place it always was. I am giving myself until the 30th of January to complete the first five chapters.

Here is the picture of my wall that I was talking about earlier:




Light blue is the main plot points, dark blue is the final segment of the story, purple is any extra notes I have on the plot points, the flags mark possible chapter divisions and the lined dark blue is a timeline. I like to colour code stuff.

My Wall is a Storyboard

I have converted the section of my wall that is above my bed into a giant sticky note infested plot line. I find this is the best way to make sure I don't lose my mind in the writing process. I will take a picture of it and post here when it is finished, because it's pretty epic (in my opinion).

In the meantime...characters! My favourite part of writing is creating characters, their personalities and how they interact. What I lack in the skills to easily make plots, I make up for in characterization (and dialogue but that's another discussion). I can't wait to completely flesh out each character in my book. Some of my favourite quirks and personalities are included in WMRR, so this should be tons of fun. Here is a good website to use when coming up with characters:

http://www.charlottedillon.com/CharacterChart.html

I found it one day after we discussed these types of lists in class. I thought it was a neat little site to use.