At nearly 30,000 words (out of a planned total of ~100,000), I figure I'm approaching the end of the first act of my current novel. (Which suddenly seems like a lot of words for a "first act".)
So now I'm on the brink of pushing into that most horrifying and daunting of places in novel writing: The Middle.
It's a scary place, let me tell you. Even if you have an outline for a map. And I have an outline for a map.
I know where I'm going, and I know what route I'm going to take to get there. But there are a lot of words that must be written between
here and
there. And with two significant changes to the outline already, the accuracy of my map is somewhat in question.
But I will press forward. There is no way out but through.
Onward!
-David
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Published on January 26, 2012 11:43