It's the only way to make sure l get it done fast.
I've decided to shorten the target date to the end of November. Just deciding that made me focus, really focus, for the first time in a long time on the historical storyline. I pitched a couple scenes, and added eight new and improved scenes. I threw out a daughter character and focused on the lifespan of a girl who becomes a woman writer.
In the current storyline, I decided on the last three people the main character meets on her way to Santiago, and their 'life stories".
It's so hard to jump in again after laying it all to rest (pen-wise, anyway, but not brain-wise) for over a year.
I thought I had once posted a helpful book on plot and structure. Here's the image:
This is James Scott Bell's Plot and Structure and it should be in every writer's bookshelf.
I've been reading a lot more this past year, to help me stay in touch with my likes and dislikes. Well, I just finished reading The Time Traveler's Wife. Although I like aspects of it, especially the premise and a few of the situations, sadly I mostly felt frustrated because I didn't feel a strong romance between the two. They were sexual than romantic, and even in their sexual interaction it was a little brutish to me and kind of strange. The dialogue felt empty and many scenes seemed without purpose in that they didn't give insight to the characters or help to advance the plot. I hung on, and although I found myself becoming interested around page 300, I soon looked forward to reaching the final page.
Then I re-opened The Night Train to Lisbon, and found it to be more literary, but just as pretentious as TTW, and so I threw that aside for now. In its place, I've reopened an Agatha Christie book (my first mystery) titled And Then There Were None. It's written concisely, but the prose is nothing magnificent, and I hope to get through it quickly.
Until I find the next reading novel, I'm going to revisit Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Rosalia de Castro's Galician collection of poems.
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