tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post8987266218889299333..comments2023-11-07T21:12:19.852-06:00Comments on Wyrdsmiths: The Spanish Exposition-Outlines (Part II)tate hallawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631759014508937940noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post-7492678578291060032007-03-30T08:01:00.000-05:002007-03-30T08:01:00.000-05:00Erik, Yeah, I'm kind of a control freak about my w...Erik, <BR/><BR/>Yeah, I'm kind of a control freak about my work.<BR/><BR/>Fate,<BR/>It might serve a similar purpose to the spreadsheet*, but the method is slightly different. I actually started my conversion from working to ongoing for the next WebMage book yesterday and after I inserted the next two big chunks I knew I had to parse the outline by chapter for length because it felt too short. <BR/><BR/>What I do when I do this is read through the upcoming material and project chapter breaks at points that taste about right for a chapter by length and tension.<BR/><BR/>I came up about 30,000 words short and had to expand two major scenes and insert some more new stuff to get a closer aproximation to enough story. This is all projected rather than completed, of course, and I'll adjust as I go.<BR/><BR/>*on spreadsheets. I know a few people who use them as tools to lay out the novel and figure out how long it's going to be and things like that, but more often I've seen them used to track and project word count/production over time than to map that information onto the length of a specific novel.<BR/><BR/>There are 1,001 ways to do this and every one of them equally right.Kelly McCulloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06399122960869198042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post-23079068580367951302007-03-29T23:22:00.000-05:002007-03-29T23:22:00.000-05:00That's interesting. My (for now, as I'm still figu...That's interesting. My (for now, as I'm still figuring how these things work) methods sound very similar to the working and ongoing outlines.<BR/><BR/>I think the length outline sounds like the sort of thing where some writers use a spreadsheet for the wordcount, or is that just weird?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post-62401974646017233072007-03-29T14:25:00.000-05:002007-03-29T14:25:00.000-05:00Holy crap are you organized.Holy crap are you organized.Erik Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11117613593580899672noreply@blogger.com