Wednesday, January 29, 2003
I was up until 3:00 this morning finally breaking my NaNo novel into chapters! I'm considering sending it out for professional critique, but needed it to be in chapters first, & I'd never done that. I'm thinking it was a bad idea not to write it in chapters in the first place! It may have flowed out faster this way, but now there's no obvious structure and I don't always have a good place to end a chapter, especially if I want to keep the chapters to the same approximate length. At the moment I have 39 chapters that range from about 1,000 to 2,000 words apiece (mostly 1,200-1,800), but I've already changed a lot of the chapter breaks today, and am not at all sure I'll keep them the way they are! At one point I had 40 chapters, and I kind of liked that round number. I'm also trying to write a concise synopsis of the novel. I'd love to keep it to one page, but so far have only managed to get it to one page and then a paragraph on the next page (311 words), and that may be as good as it gets!
posted by Alison |
1:48 PM
Title: Chasing Monday Length: 58,466 words Premise: 15-year-old loner Lydia Wolfley's world is shaken up when her father moves back to town and
decides to marry the mother of a girl she can hardly stand.
about me
I live in Texas and I'm a married mother of 2 small boys. I have a lop-eared bunny named Pablo, and I eat way too much fast food. I've wanted to be a writer
since I was 5.
