Getting Ready for a Burst of Speed

Some time has passed

I've gotten into a fugue about this story.  I still like it, and still want to write it, but emotionally I was a bit fatigued by the whole thing.  The dead-end of the Dramatica route, and the energy expended in creating something from the ashes has drained my enthusiasm.  There has been a gap in time.

But now I'm back, and part of the reason is that I want to get on to the actual writing of the first draft.  I'm tired of this endless planning and reworking, I feel as if it's an excuse to not be knocking out the word counts, which is the bread-and-butter of writing, after all.  I'm going to use the traditional month of November to try to knock out a first draft of the book.  But this means I have to bite the bullet and finish off the preparatory work, which has literally taken months.  I have four days to get this done.


What is left

So we have worked out the rough chronology of the main story and the historical backstory.  We have bounced the themes up and down the four story threads.  I think we have pretty much covered all of the plot intricacies.

What is left is to revisit the characters that we beefed out whilst going through Dramatica, and then to do what it calls the Story Weave, which is the construction of the plot points and the journeys between them - creating the actual story narrative plan.


Or...

Or else I could just say... my subconscious knows what needs to happen, just write the thing.
Plan out four dozen chapter headings and JFDI.

Tempting,