I have started working on a book (again). I have gotten started a couple of times… but didn’t really get very far. This year, on January 1st, I started writing with the goal of writing 100 words every day. So far that has worked out well for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first few days, it was easy to write 100 words. After all, 100 words isn’t that much. But, after the first few days, I hit a spot where I wasn’t sure what to write next.<\/em> So, I thought a little bit and started writing an outline. Not so much to outline the whole story, but to have a way to organize some of my thinking on this thing I am calling a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That worked for a couple of days (and I give myself credit for 100 words regardless of whether I think those specific words will end up in the published story.) And then I had trouble figuring out where to take the outline next. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I hadn’t made it to the end yet, although I did have a lot of ideas on what the story would look like as it neared the end. I was definitely lacking the middle thoughts though. You know, the story<\/em> part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That is when I decided to go back and write about some of the things in the outline. The more of that I did, the more I feel like I was making progress. I still feel like I am making progress now. I managed to cross 10k words yesterday, which was Valentine’s Day. I am still creating story. I have hit a few spots where I am stuck on how exactly the scene should play out, but I have just moved on to other parts. I have it on good authority that just because a book ends up in chapter order, doesn’t mean it was written in chapter order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope to be able to reach 100k words in this book by October. I might try to do something like edit the book in November. I think I have a rough outline (mostly in my head) for two more books after this one, to end up with a trilogy. I may find out that I don’t have 10k words after the first draft is edited, but I am going to try to remain optomistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think when I hit 40k, I may start investigating beta readers. I hear that is a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have started working on a book (again). I have gotten started a couple of times… but didn’t really get very far. This year, on January 1st, I started writing with the goal of writing 100 words every day. So far that has worked out well for me. The first few days, it was easy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[105,106,107,11],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-thoughts","tag-10k","tag-books","tag-process","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}