I have reached the part of my rough draft that has the least amount of development. I have it written, in lots of pieces, in random order, and now I just have to fix it.
I realized, when I started on this most recent folder, how underdeveloped this world is. Like I said in my last post, all of my other stories have existed for years. I have worked on them in varying amounts, but mostly what that means is I’ve had a lot of time to develop the worlds outside of the stories, so the worlds feel more real.
For this story, I feel like once I get the plot revision done, I’m going to have to take some serious time to figure out what’s going on in this world outside of what I’ve developed for the immediate story. Just so the world actually feels like a world.
I didn’t get as much work done as I would’ve liked as I went to my writing conference, which ate up my Saturday, and then I ended up reading The Name of the Wind (which I’ll probably review sometime) which ate up more time. Revision is just more time consuming than straight up writing, so while writing words isn’t much of a challenge anymore, putting the words all in order is a bit more difficult.
For now, I have one week scheduled for my ‘Plot and Story’ revision. It doesn’t look like I’m going to finish the story in that week. This folder and the next two are certainly the roughest. The last two should be pretty easy, so I might only need one extra week after this coming week.
Last week I didn’t give myself a goal that has specific measurable results. Since that is important for judging whether I succeeded or failed at my goal, this week I am setting a specific measurable goal. My goal is to finish writing out the plot and story of the next two folders in my list.
