Dangerous Instrumentality
Feb. 17th, 2012 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinThis morning I mentioned a stroke of inspiration, but I didn't say regarding what. It has to do with Dangerous Instrumentality, and how to structure it... both in terms of how to arrange what I've written so far, and where to go next.
So I've spent the first part of today tying together the stuff I've written previously, which involved not just copying and pasting but writing bridging bits and revising things. When I put it all together I was surprised at how big it is. The first section is about 9,000 words, which is about 36 pages of novel-formatted text. (It would actually spread across more pages, because there will be chapter/segment breaks within it.)
So I'm thinking that this is going to be less of a novella and more of a just plain novel when it's finished.
The organizational scheme I'm using is days rather than numbered chapters, with each day broken up into little sub-sections/chapters. It's a fairly common way of doing things, but not one that's occurred to me before. It's really handy because of the way I want to interweave Riley's typical work week with the plot.
I'm going to add the full draft of day one as it stands to the subscriber directory sometime between now and when the newsletter goes out next week. There won't be much in there that subscribers won't have seen before, but you'll be able to read it as a continuous flowing story and see how it all comes together, and the ending of it is new.
So I've spent the first part of today tying together the stuff I've written previously, which involved not just copying and pasting but writing bridging bits and revising things. When I put it all together I was surprised at how big it is. The first section is about 9,000 words, which is about 36 pages of novel-formatted text. (It would actually spread across more pages, because there will be chapter/segment breaks within it.)
So I'm thinking that this is going to be less of a novella and more of a just plain novel when it's finished.
The organizational scheme I'm using is days rather than numbered chapters, with each day broken up into little sub-sections/chapters. It's a fairly common way of doing things, but not one that's occurred to me before. It's really handy because of the way I want to interweave Riley's typical work week with the plot.
I'm going to add the full draft of day one as it stands to the subscriber directory sometime between now and when the newsletter goes out next week. There won't be much in there that subscribers won't have seen before, but you'll be able to read it as a continuous flowing story and see how it all comes together, and the ending of it is new.