Ring of Truth Progress Update

I’m almost finished with chapter 3 (roughly 12 pages out of 16 are done). Tomorrow, I am going to go back through it again and do a few rewrites and then I’ll finish it up. Yep, rewrites already. It’s a pivotal chapter and I’m a linear-pantser.  If you don’t know what that means, you’re not alone. I made it up–kind of. Linear means that I write from beginning to end and follow an outline. A pantser is a writer that has no idea what is going to happen until they write it and creates a story in scenes, with no particular order. I do a little of both, so I combined the two names.

When I write a story, I have a solid idea where I want to start, end and the other plots paths but that’s it. I work from a skeletal outline and add the ‘meat’ of the story as I go or in rewrites. The way I see it is that you don’t know what you would do in any given situation until you are faced with it. I throw things at my characters and ‘see’ what they do. Sometimes it takes the whole story in a new direction or opens a new door that I had never considered. I love open doors. They make everything possible.

Michaela McGregor signing off…