Progress - Progeny
I began writing my first novel about a year ago. I had had plans to start the novel (seriously writing, not just jotting notes down) for at least a year prior to that. Foolish me, I thought it would be simple enough to take the short story I had written (and won a writing contest with), expand it and turn it into a full-fledged novel.
Silly me.
I’ve not been nearly as productive as I expected to be. Life gets in the way, you know. Priorities shift. Focus fades. Sad as it may be, I have been (and still am) struggling with finding the time to just sit down and write. The words are there and the tale is waiting to be told; yet, it sits patiently, quietly awaiting my hands and mind to come together with that fleeting bastard ‘time’.
I decided to take it down a slightly different path, in order to get the full story down in one form or another: I am story-boarding. I’m taking each scene/chapter and writing it down in only a few key sentences and then, once I’ve completed all of that, I will order everything and flesh it all out.
I’ve heard several other writer friends of mine rave about this process, and at this point I am willing to try anything. So far, it seems to be working pretty well. At least I am making progress. At about 40,000 words, it sucks to get bogged down!
Wish me luck!
~clns
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