Day 1 Blog 1
I have finally typed up chapter 2 of my novel. It's been a work in progress for well over a week but finally i have 3000 black words on white paper. so thats a total of 6000 down 69,000 to go. I have also bought some books today of which Amanda Vickery is the author to help with my research into the time period of which my novel is set which is the 17th-18th centurys. These books are: 'The Gentleman's Daughter' and 'Behind Closed Doors' and they will make a welcome addition to my two existing books 'The English Marriage' and 'The prospect before her', can't remember the authors so will look up and post in my next post tomorrow.
Next up of course i have to think about chapter 3, its kind of in my head already, i know roughly what i want to happen so i just need to set about writing it. My personal system is to have all my notes on my pc, on onenote and i have a page of notes for each character as well as my synopsis and my chapter by chapter outline. I then write my first draft by hand in a notebook then type this up as a second draft adding and editing where necessary. The first handwritten draft is the most difficult which is why i do it by hand- i have no internet distractions then such as email, gaming, blah de blah blah blah...
Hopefully i can keep up this blog to keep myself motivated to write and one day (fingers crossed) get this published and so on and also deter from writers block.
No comments:
Post a Comment