Hello out there!!!
News:
Well, this week I managed to beat my writing goal, getting over 9500 words written! (Cue random Dragon Ball-Z character screaming “It’s over 9000!!!!”) That means that in less than a month I’ve written over 40,000 words for this draft! Maybe not quite NaNoWriMo levels, but pretty close!
Even better, I’m down to my last full scene that needs to be written from scratch for this draft! All the rest of the scenes will be me editing roughly 30 previously written scenes to make them work with my altered outline. The revisions on some of those scenes might resemble complete rewrites, but at least I’ll have bits and pieces of the original scene to work with. Awesome!!!
I’m hoping that I can really pick up the pace with these scenes that I’m editing, so my goal is to write the last brand new scene + editing 14 other scenes! Wish me luck!
For Aslan!!!
Writing Tip:
Having character points of view (POVs) and dialog sound different is hard, but here are some tricks you can use:
Type up a list of distinguishing character traits that you look at before writing each scene from that POV and which you can go back and reference during editing passes to make sure those key character traits are expressed in each scene they’re in. What is this character’s go-to method for solving problems? What’s their general attitude?
Write all the scenes for a single POV, then write all of the scenes for the next POV, etcetera, until you’ve written all the scenes in the book. This will make it easier to get into character and stay in character. Also, I’ve noticed that scenes I write close together tend to sound similar, so this will be especially helpful if you’re a slow writer.
During a revision pass, go through all of the filler words (um, so, well, I guess, etc.)/swears/exclamations (what! Wow! Oh! Oops, etc.) each character uses, and then assign a couple filler words/swears/exclamations to each character, trying to make them unique to each character. Then go through and make sure that each character uses the same few words/phrases in all of their dialog/POV narration.
Well, that’s all I’ve got for this week! Go forth and read books!
Timothy Kuhn