Okay, so now I have my outline done! Yay! Still nothing on the actual chapter though. :(
You can thank my husband for talking me through the next stage of the construction mystery, though. There was one plot point that was holding me up, and now I think I've gotten it under control. :)
betty brant (my partner-in-crime beta) said in her reply to my outline: "So I take it that this will be a fairly 'plotty' chapter? No time for fluff or characterization? (Too bad -- although it is necessary, of course)."
And I had to agree, on the fluff part, at least. I just don't put much characterization into my outlines... it just seems to flow as the chapter is being written. Some time I should show you all a comparison of outline to finished product.
So anyone who was looking forward to a furthering of the sub-plot... you're up next!! Fluff-lovers... your time is coming again. But believe me, it's all still close to the surface. :)
You can thank my husband for talking me through the next stage of the construction mystery, though. There was one plot point that was holding me up, and now I think I've gotten it under control. :)
betty brant (my partner-in-crime beta) said in her reply to my outline: "So I take it that this will be a fairly 'plotty' chapter? No time for fluff or characterization? (Too bad -- although it is necessary, of course)."
And I had to agree, on the fluff part, at least. I just don't put much characterization into my outlines... it just seems to flow as the chapter is being written. Some time I should show you all a comparison of outline to finished product.
So anyone who was looking forward to a furthering of the sub-plot... you're up next!! Fluff-lovers... your time is coming again. But believe me, it's all still close to the surface. :)
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Well, I guess it'll be a tortoise race to see who posts their next chapter first, eh?
So this breakthrough is definitely a good thing. Just one more teensy problem to solve regarding the sub-plot and I'll be good to go on the rest of Act 3.
*bounces happily in chair* *pulls muscle in back* Ow.
Tis late, and I'm getting to old to bounce around late at night. *smirk*
But sub-plot is necessary for a good story like a characterization between the lines (can I say that on this way?). Nobody likes stories who doesn't give a change to the reader to imagine, to create own pictures in minds. Your story creates a lot of pictures (and dreams *blush*). So I'm waiting patiently...
That's probably why betty and I have been hashing this out from day one. (Or to be truthful, since before the movie came out and the weekend following).