by Shelt garner
@sheltgarner
So. Here were are again. I realized something last night — I had cut back the story so much that there was zero character development before the story got going. So, I’ve decided to add back some more scenes and re-structure when and why the second act begins.
I’ve also decided to flesh out the outline AGAIN while rereading a number of basic books about novel structure and character development. This pushes the actual writing back towards mid-month, but it’s worth it in the long-term. And, hopefully, this will speed up the other books in these series as well.
In fact, I might just set aside one day of the week to just tinkering with the other four novels in the series so I’m moving forward with them, too, at the same time as I’m working on this first book.
So, I still have a massive amount of work to do. But I think I’ve figured out a way to speed the process up just about as fast as I can. The reason why I’m starting from scratch is I was looking at my proto first draft and I was like, “Wow, this is great!” So much so that I was having problems thinking what to edit to make a second draft (or 1.5 if you want to get technical.)
Thus, I decided to throw myself at rewriting everything and use sheer force of will to take things to the next level.
