This post will be really quick, since it’s after midnight and I want to get up at seven tomorrow.<\/p>\n
I’ve decided to work on The Phoenix of Nova Terra<\/em>\u00a0for my next project. \u00a0Except…I’m renaming it (yet again!) to…<\/p>\n <drumroll, please><\/p>\n Ashes of the Starry Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n I like this title much more than the previous one. \u00a0I think that just about everyone, when they first start out, comes up with a somewhat cliche title having something to do with a phoenix.<\/p>\n Even though this is the first novel I ever wrote and finished, I think it has a lot of potential. \u00a0People always say that your first novel is never publishable, but this one wasn’t my first attempt at writing a novel (it’s something like my sixth or seventh). \u00a0Besides, when judging these things, you need to look at the work itself, not on these general rules that everyone always throws around.<\/p>\n The story itself is pretty decent, I think. \u00a0The main things to improve are 1) the worldbuilding\/research aspect, and 2) the nuts and bolts writing. \u00a0To help out with that, I’ve decided to follow some of David Louis Edelmen’s revision advice<\/a> and completely transcribe every \u00a0word of this revision draft in a new word document. \u00a0Hopefully, that level of focus will help me to improve things on the word, sentence, and paragraph levels.<\/p>\n At the same time, I need a very clear macro-level view of this project–after all, it’s been over a year since I finished the rough draft. \u00a0To do that, I started a wikidpad file that will become the story bible for the new draft. \u00a0I’ll use it to do the things I mentioned in my previous post, “Outlining for discovery writers.<\/a>”<\/p>\n I’ll also spend the next week or so reading the most recent draft from start to finish, figuring out my revision notes. \u00a0This will be hard, since I stopped \u00a0ennumerating the chapters towards the beginning, but I’ll figure it out.<\/p>\n Gah, everything is so disorganized for this project! \u00a0I’ve got revision notes for the 2.0 and 2.1 versions, files scattered everywhere, feedback from a friend of mine from the FLSR that I haven’t even looked at yet…just too much. \u00a0The draft needs a TON of work, too.<\/p>\n If I can polish this draft to a satisfactory, presentable second draft in the next month, I’ll be happy. \u00a0That’s prettymuch my goal. \u00a0140,000 words in five weeks…let’s go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This post will be really quick, since it’s after midnight and I want to get up at seven tomorrow. 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