I'm on scene eight of sixty. I'd hoped this would go faster. But I am discovering things about the book as I go. So there is a silver lining.
As I go through each scene, I'm making notes of things this scene is for. Sometimes it to show an aspect of a character, other times its to lay the ground work for another scene. ANother good use of a scene is to introduce your world with exposition. Just describe things. I'm doing that a lot in the first few scenes. This will let me use sparser descriptions later in the book.
I like how it's forcing me to think about the structure of the story up front. This is going to save me a lot in the re-writes. It will also tell me where the story is lacking. I find I'm referring back to the characters stories to find out how they are going to react to things, or thinking about how I can hint at the secondary stories. I'm enjoying the craft of this a lot.
By the way, at this rate it's gonna take me about eight days to get through this step.
As I go through each scene, I'm making notes of things this scene is for. Sometimes it to show an aspect of a character, other times its to lay the ground work for another scene. ANother good use of a scene is to introduce your world with exposition. Just describe things. I'm doing that a lot in the first few scenes. This will let me use sparser descriptions later in the book.
I like how it's forcing me to think about the structure of the story up front. This is going to save me a lot in the re-writes. It will also tell me where the story is lacking. I find I'm referring back to the characters stories to find out how they are going to react to things, or thinking about how I can hint at the secondary stories. I'm enjoying the craft of this a lot.
By the way, at this rate it's gonna take me about eight days to get through this step.