Did I mention that I was am somewhat ADD? The other day I got a comp copy of an anthology I contributed to a while back - all short stories (yummy!) I thought I'd take a short break (no pun intended) and read a few. While reading a few, I got an idea, quickly sketched out a rough scope, and puy it aside to work on later, after I finished working on UN#3*.
My muse, fickle bitch that she is, insisted, when I next sat down at the word lathe, that maybe I should flesh out that rough scope a bit more, which meant that I had to posit a character or two, some setting description, and maybe what the starship should look like, which little detail I'd forgotten to mention in the draft scope.
Three hours later I'd written a fairly good description of the ship, its drive (and principles thereof), and its necessary limitations. But, along the way I realized that the characters needed more fleshing out and....
Well, it's week later and I now have seven scenes drafted, rough sketches (ideas, really) of the others, a general idea of how to arrange all of them to tell a decent story and, oh yeah IMHO, a killer opening! Still not certain of what the protagonists might do or say, but that gets written as needed and when the scene requires without a lot of writerly forethought. Should be done in another week - it's only a 5,000 word story, or maybe a bit more or less, let's say 7,500 to be safe and then I can get back to UN#3, or maybe #4.
Unless something else derails my best intentions.......
My muse, fickle bitch that she is, insisted, when I next sat down at the word lathe, that maybe I should flesh out that rough scope a bit more, which meant that I had to posit a character or two, some setting description, and maybe what the starship should look like, which little detail I'd forgotten to mention in the draft scope.
Three hours later I'd written a fairly good description of the ship, its drive (and principles thereof), and its necessary limitations. But, along the way I realized that the characters needed more fleshing out and....
Well, it's week later and I now have seven scenes drafted, rough sketches (ideas, really) of the others, a general idea of how to arrange all of them to tell a decent story and, oh yeah IMHO, a killer opening! Still not certain of what the protagonists might do or say, but that gets written as needed and when the scene requires without a lot of writerly forethought. Should be done in another week - it's only a 5,000 word story, or maybe a bit more or less, let's say 7,500 to be safe and then I can get back to UN#3, or maybe #4.
Unless something else derails my best intentions.......
*see https://budsparhawk.blogspot.com/2016/11/meanwhile-back-in-wordsmithing-shack.html
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