Write, Revise, Rewrite
I’ve spent the past few days going over past chapters and making revisions. Thus, I haven’t added a whole lot of new content over the past week (or at least, I haven’t begun a new chapter during that time).
On the other hand, I’ve made good progress connecting earlier chapters with later ones, filling in holes that allow me to move the story along.
I had to go back to Chapter 3 and create a scene from the main villain’s perspective. It allowed me to provide a little more necessary background and set up some of the events that take place in later chapters. It also allowed me to make this villain more realistic. He’s more complicated than the prototypical “bad guy,” and I needed to get that across.
I’ll probably go back to these scenes and revise again, but over the past two nights, I think I’ve got it in good enough shape to move on.
I also have to go back and add at least two scenes to Chapter 6. It was a fairly short chapter anyway, and I need some things to happen in order to set up Chapters 8-10.
This entire novel takes place over the span of only a few days, but a lot of things have to happen all at the same time. Getting everything synchronized so that it makes sense to the reader has been one of my biggest challenges. I also don’t want to jump around too much, because I’ll lose the readers if I do.
Fantasy Writer’s Progress Report:
- Consecutive days of productive writing:Â 4
- Chapters complete: 7
- Word Count: 27,282
