1/ Last time? Knew the last scene and nothing else. Started writing. Figured out things along the way, created a total mess. Rewrote it. Still a mess. Rewrote it. Rewrote it. Rewrote it. Five drafts. What a slog. This time, a new plan >>> https://twitter.com/TedGoodridge/status/996146519744139267 …
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2/ 11 threads, one with 6 subthreads. Act 1, 2a, 2b, 3 of book 3 plotted out. Act 2a, 2b, 3 of book 3 plotted out (no act 1; everything is already underway). 200 scenes across those 7 acts and 16 threads (average of 2 occurrences of each thread per scene).
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3/ Each scene has 2-4 bullet points Examples: * A argues XYZ, but B argues no, QRS * C discovers D's plot and pulls gun, but D shoots first * A robot controlled by Q is in the ship, but R hacks it
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4/ The work ahead is to turn 3 bullet points into 3-6 pages of dialogue and action. Over and over and over. Half the characters already exist. Others are stubs (e.g. in the notes as "CEO 1", "THE FACE", "UNION GUY"). Also, I expect chapter count to grow by 50%.
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5/ One thread is underspecified, but that's OK. It has room for minor characters to observe and react, and - perhaps - interact with the main events at the margins.
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6/ There are a few concepts that need to be larded through the text, but I think that will happen organically as I look for topics to have A talk to B about in scene 190, etc. Also, I need to do more research on constructed languages, Trojan asteroids, gold mining, etc.
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7/ There's a long road ahead. /exeunt
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8/ My first draft was a disaster. One character turned into 2. Others merged as the story advanced. There were impossible dependencies (chapter 90 knows of events in chapter 95, chapter 95 is a reaction to events in chapter 90), >>>https://twitter.com/ded_ruckus/status/996161062767493120?s=19 …
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Dedicating Ruckus @ded_ruckusReplying to @MorlockPAlways confused when people say they rewrote a draft. I never have, and the idea sounds painful/impossible. Is it that the changes to structure made completely different scenes happen, or that the already-written scenes were unusable for some other reason?1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
9/ There were accidental Deus ex machinas that needed reasons, there were motivations that never resolved, and on and on and on. I opened the file, started at sentence 1, deleting bits, adding bits, adding whole new paragraphs and chapters. Took 9 months. And it STILL sucked.
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10/ So I took a 3 month break, then did it again. Draft 3.
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Each time there were LOTS of new chapters. It grew 30+ % in size each time. I was writing a new book on the skin of the corpse of the old. Yes, it was hard.
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11/ That's why I'm outlining this time.
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