Day 14 (Team July)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Good Day!

Here's today's prompt for your writing updates and for any extracts, thoughts, or comments you might have.

Comments

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

For Sherlock to confess the simple need for touch is disarming and sweet. Indeed, it is not the same.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for a good bike ride!

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Re biting off more than you can chew, that's an invitation to raise your game. I'm sure you'll rise to the challenge admirably!

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Keep powering on through the doubts!

Synopsis

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I'd like to say I did something not White Feathers related but in reality it was, I was working on the synopsis. I've got as far as the Terrible Horrible Awful Thing* and that's already nearly 1,700 words. Gulp! When it's down like that in bullet prose, bang bang bang bang bang, the whole novel seems extremely busy. I worry excessively so. Still, at least I am able to remember the plot in the first place...

*Well, there's loads of them. But you know what I mean.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

It really saps your energy doesn't it? Writing the notes was self defense.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a learning experience, we'll see how it all turns out :)

[elmey.livejournal.com]

How do you use the synopsis--is it just to keep track of scenes and plot?

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

He is. I'd like to say something in his defence along the lines of 'well, Kate saw something in him once', but actually she's been ignoring him in favour of gardening, running various village organisations and Doing Good Works since the 1940s.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on first draft completion.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've been busy.

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Synopsis writing is all part of it. Good luck getting in finishes, and then possibly paring it down.

[saki101.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of writing, useful for reference and overview, I would imagine. (I've never gotten beyond an outline with occasional notes tucked in!) About what percentage through the plot do you think you've reached with the THAT? What inspired you to write the plot up this way?

[saki101.livejournal.com]

He's been picking up data in areas he hadn't expected, drawing some conclusions about himself along the way.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

He Who Must Be Obeyed reckons I should polish up the first three chapters and submit them. To do that, I need a synopsis. And I'd say the plot is reasonably fixed now. But it's useful in that way too.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Thank you- I will certainly have to cut it down a little!

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

About 60 per cent by now. And many agent houses etc require synopsis which is why I'm writing one. My partner reckons I should start refining the opening section to send a partial to agents etc.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I hope Edward works something out to get the boy a better childhood. Can his father really get the law on his side?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Strange fair hair? Has it changed colour do to what Sherlock's gone through?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, we have a title! I once wrote a story called White Feather but, of course, a mere trifle compared to yours.

Bullet prose?

[saki101.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. So 40% to go. Maybe you tweak something here or there once you're done, but don't second guess what you've worked so diligently on. Why shouldn't a plot be complex?

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (I'll try to)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'll try to.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Thank you!