I must confess that this book has given me some grief. Just when I think I have the grasp of the story and the characters, they gang up on me and tell me otherwise. There are a lot of revelations in this book, but also a lot of unanswered questions. I've mapped out the series in my head and journals, but my husband suggested I find some sort of program to help me keep things straight. I'm old fashion and I still enjoy my handwritten entries. Because the story is getting out of my hands I need to map out the events and characters (like a timeline) in detail. I think I'm going to create a little spreadsheet on excel to help me keep everyone straight. For example name, physical description, relation to other characters, personality, etc.
I'm very OCD (seriously I am) and can't function in chaos, I think this excel chart will serve me well in all my future projects. I've looke around but what's out there is not for me. My advice to any writer or aspiring writer out there is to keep things simple and organized. I wished I thought of all this when I was writing my first book Protectorate Wars Amada Book 1.
My plan is to spend a couple of hours here and there perfecting my chart. I know once the basic one is done it can be forever improved, but at least I'll have something visualy to work with. Believe me the amount of work I have spread around in my many journals will benefit from this. I have at least three more series I'm working on but don't have the time to rummage through my writings. I will keep you posted on the progress and I'm willing to help anyone that needs a little boost.
Well, this is it for now...I'll try to post some delectable excerpt from Gigi today or tomorrow. Till then this is Nena signing out...Adios, bye, chiao, aloha, auf, aurevoir...
No comments:
Post a Comment