There are still things that need fixed. I am not done editing, by no means done polishing, but all the big gaps in Life of a Suburban Unicorn are filled. I’m proud of my work. I like the ending. I liked how satisfied I felt writing it. There isn’t a major plot point I want to change. I’m going to sit back, away from the manuscript now, and just spend some time not thinking about it. I believe I’ll come back to a beautiful manuscript that makes me proud. It’s time to start a new story though, and I can’t wait to try the new technique I’ve got planned.
I’m going to try the Index Card Technique. I think it’ll be fun plotting endlessly before I write the novel, instead of just stumbling through it the first time.
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Oct 06, 2010 @ 15:57:27
Congratulations!
Oct 06, 2010 @ 17:29:01
The index card idea is interesting. Sue Grafton in her mystery series has her investigator main character use index cards to post facts in a case and then rearrange them and read them in all different order to discover clues . Ha! Let me know how it works for you in writing your next novel, not the clue thing, of course, but the index plan of Byerly based on Bova’s ideas. It sounds promising. Great post!
Congratulations on finishing “Life of a Suburban Unicorn”! I have completely rewritten the first chapter of my MS. It is taking some time to tweak it again and again before starting the query process.