Milestone. Resurrected Post.
Last Wednesday I wrote ���The End��� on the first draft of ���Captain.��� Saturday I celebrated.
There remains a way to go before I can consider the novel complete, but most of the heavy lifting is finished. Now I need to set it aside, turn my mind to something else before commencing the second draft. That something else is book three of the series: ���Warlord.��� I began outlining Thursday morning.
Those who write by the seat-of-the-pants dive right in and see what happens. That���s what I���m doing at the outlining stage: seeing what happens. But I do so with less effort and much fewer words. When things go all cattywampus I can correct course without having to re-write the last, I don���t know, fifty pages. And there is no law requiring me to stick to my outline. If I discover a better path forward, or a side plot that demands exploration, I will deviate from the outline without hesitation. But at least I���ll have a road map when I finally sit down to begin Chapter One.
Thank you to those of you who came by yesterday to drink my beer and help me celebrate. Let���s do it again soon. With a three-book series there should be plenty of milestones to commemorate.
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Published on September 30, 2018 13:23
