teryster replied to your post: Finally, at long last, broke 70,000 words in my...
So proud of you!! Updates like these make me very excited for projects AND motivated to work on my own, so I definitely enjoy reading your posts!! ♥ SO HYPE FOR THIS You’re writing your novel chronologically, correct? Can I ask, did the beggining feel easier to write than the later parts are?
I know the feeling of being motivated by friends’ moving on their projects!
And yes--I am writing it more or less mostly chronologically. I do have a few scenes here and there that are “out of order” from where I am in the narrative, but mostly this novel is a “growing” novel rather than a super plotted one. Which surprises me about myself, tbqh. I only have a bare bones, broad strokes idea of things, so I’m allowing the ins and outs of the plot sort of unravel as I go. I’ll write something, and it’ll flip a switch in my head of OH THAT’S WHERE THAT’S GOING or THAT’S WHAT I MEANT TO REFERENCE IN CH3, etc.
It’s hard to say if the beginning was easier to write than now? I had absolutely no idea of the broader picture back then, because I originally intended for it to be... a short story... so I only had “Main Character goes and does X” which then spooled out into a whole Thing, and now I’m in the entire second arc of a much bigger story.
If I were to solely go by how much at once/how often I was writing, the beginning went easier than now, as I wrote about 10k words in about a week. I was just following along on a relatively straightforward monster-hunting adventure then. Now, I’m delving into more difficult and deeper themes from the character’s background and starting to lay out the larger world and its plot, so it’s more complicated to balance giving information without info-dumping and without giving too much away, trying to not write myself into a corner etc.
But, a lot more dots are connecting now---there are also more dots just in general, so I can much more clearly see the larger picture of the story, its purpose, the main character’s drive (the surprise secondary character’s drive and part), the problem and how it needs to be resolved, the main character’s personal issues, and so on.
I definitely love the store more now than I originally did, because of knowing more about it and getting to delve deeper and deeper into characters, a world, and themes that I love and that mean a lot to me.
