@BranwenOShea

#WritingWonders: 18th July

I wasn't sure how to answer this until I saw your answer

It is the characters, but not always how you expect

My #novelx1 (aka #EG1) was intended to be about the archaeology on a student summer dig in the Cotswolds but Elyssia Gadnall, who lived nearby, kept butting in

My current wip(s) - #novelx4 & #novelx5 (#EG2 & #EG3) - is(are) about her

#novelx2: Tom & Theresa
#novelx3: Dr Andrew Bridges

#amWriting #characters #muse #WritingCommunity

#wipwednesday

Lying awake at night thinking about the WiP. Decided I need structure

#novelx1 had a structure.
6 week archaeological dig x 7 days. 6x7 = 42 chapters gave a framework to write into

#novelx2: 10 years divided into 3 sections x 4 parts x 5 = 60 ch. It was a bit artificial but it worked fine

#novelx3 was more diffuse and more difficult to write, with no obvious end point

My new scheme for the wip:
6 yrs x 4 seasons x 2, 48 ch

Hmm. We'll see

#novelx4 #EG2
#WritingCommunity

#WritingWonders 9. Do natural calamities play a role in your story?

<struggling to think>

#novelx1, at the beginning, there's a deluge of rain that floods the archaeology dig

#novelx2, there's a storm in which a sailing boat carrying one of the main characters (MC1) is wrecked on a beach in Sussex near to where MC2 lives. (Thereby hangs a tale!)

#novelx3, there's a lot of snow at one point making life difficult

#novelx4, nothing yet as far as I can remember...

#amWritingFiction #weather

Typing up #novelx2

I'm now up to 38.5k words (110 pages) - about 1/3 done

It seems slow and I'd like it to be faster but every page done is a win

#novelx #win #amWritingFiction

I've put the two chapters of #novelx4 aside to marinate, while I pick up on the data entry for #novelx2. The last time I typed any of this up was at the beginning of December

Added 480ish words to the 35k already in the laptop, about page and a half. It's not a lot but it feels good to be picking it up again

A good day all in all 😀

#amWritingFiction
#dataEntry