I may have missed a lot of things...

[hawkwing_lb]

Progress, Friday 23 December 2005:

"Dreamdark, or, the Confused-Title Story"

New words: 1424
Previous words: 23,951
Total relevent words: 25,375
Estimated words required: 100,000

Okay, I confess: actual words words, not so much. Really none. I wrote out my plot in a scene-by-scene sort of synopsis/plan; I wrote backstory for characters, so that I can stop guessing why they're doing what, and then I wrote out lists of character names, so I can keep track of who's who.

(Never, never, write a feudaloid pseudo-medieval type-thingy again. Never. Everybody who's anybody has at least three names: title (like Captain/Sergeant/Count/Lord), first name, surname. Some have four: title (as above), landholding (Count of Nosuchplace, Duke of Nothingland), first name, surname.)

I think I know how to write this now. I will start, tomorrow, at the ending, and work back from there. When I have it drafted, I will start at the beginning and work towards the end, filling in and sorting out the bits that don't make sense.

Yeah, barse-ackwards, I know. But it's focus, I think. I've had enough flailing around trying to connect the threads. Start where the threads all come together, and work backwards from there (at least I'll know what I'm working towards).

We have Plot. We have Plan. We have

::looks over shoulder::

::glances all around::

::whispers::

Optimism.

I'm going to do this. And perhaps I'll manage to stop some of the whingeing that's been going on around here lately, too.