10k in and you've only just discovered your plot I'm 4k in and know where I am, what i have to do, how i have to get there, the major problem is getting the by the end of march within a reasonable wordcount (ie 20k not 200k)
i have to have a vague idea of what i'm doing before i start or i get all tangled up althoguh one of the few pieces of advice i took from my creative writing lessons (who set me back YEARS! i tell ya) was that your first sentence should tell you everything you need to know about setting, pace and your protagonist for example "Dean doesn’t know why he was plucked from Hell, but the little things every day remind him how grateful he is. " however it means i spend three weeks on the first line and have to rush out the rest of the story to hit deadline
why ever not? the last one i wrote flipped back and forth over the course of a couple of months focussing mostly on one day by the end of it i didn't know which way was up
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I'm 4k in and know where I am, what i have to do, how i have to get there, the major problem is getting the by the end of march within a reasonable wordcount (ie 20k not 200k)
i have to have a vague idea of what i'm doing before i start or i get all tangled up
althoguh one of the few pieces of advice i took from my creative writing lessons (who set me back YEARS! i tell ya) was that your first sentence should tell you everything you need to know about setting, pace and your protagonist
for example "Dean doesn’t know why he was plucked from Hell, but the little things every day remind him how grateful he is. "
however it means i spend three weeks on the first line and have to rush out the rest of the story to hit deadline
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the last one i wrote flipped back and forth over the course of a couple of months focussing mostly on one day
by the end of it i didn't know which way was up
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