The Days Are Just Packed     
The ongoing saga of David D. Levine's writing and other adventures.

I'm a geek, fan, and writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. For more information about me, please see my web page. If you have questions, comments, or just want to chat, you can send me e-mail. Or you can post a comment on my LiveJournal.

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3/31/04: All the running you can do to stay in one place

Word count: 63736 | Since last entry: 4 | This month: 10172

I'm laughing out loud at the word count, having worked for about 3 hours to produce a net change of 4 words. This resulted from a fleshing-out of the outline and an edit of the synopsis that apparently subtracted exactly the same number of words. I also spent a great deal of time experimenting with alternate layouts for the outline, to clarify the rather tangled timelines of the two plot threads (which my critiquers, sharp people all, are having trouble with). In the end I decided to use alternating long and short indents for the chapter titles:

Chapter 1........September 2051
Chapter A..........................April 2051
Chapter 2........October 2051
Chapter B..........................July 2051
Chapter 3........November 2051
Chapter C..........................September 2051
etc.

God, I hope this works.

I think I'm done with the outline and synopsis, anyway. What's left: Author Bio, Book Audience, Similar Successful Books, and Book To Film Potential.

I can do this. I can do this.

Posted 03/31/2004 22:09 [e-mail me] [post comment] [permalink]

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