The world turns upside down…

~ Meg

Tuesday is the first of November, the day the novel writing frenzy begins. I have the weekend to prepare, make sure I’m ready to forget everything else and just write. I know some people map it all out, have incremental goals, and so forth. But I don’t flourish as a task orientated writer. That’s not to say I’m not organized. I do have the story all plotted out, but I am not writing with an outline.

When I say plotted, I mean I’ve written down the list of events that need to take place from the beginning to the end. I have snippets of conversation jotted on my index cards. I have character biographies written and I have a blank timeline spreadsheet started to keep track of my events as I write them. This approach can make the pacing of a novel more difficult. That is, making sure all the action isn’t bunched together with lots of dead space in between. We’ll see how it goes. The point of the whole exercise is  to get the story written, after that the massive edit can begin.

I have an obstacle or two to write around as well. Work of course, can’t be set aside for an entire month obviously. But I also have something special planned for the first weekend in November: I have tickets to Hamilton on Broadway. And a visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I guarantee no writing will happen on the 5th and 6th of November. Totally worth it, though.

Published by Meg

Easily amused, never bored and constantly distracted. My creative pursuits include writing, drawing, painting and photography.

32 thoughts on “The world turns upside down…”

  3. I thought you had to be, like, rich and famous to get tickets to that show! 🙂 That’s what I hear anyway. I’ll be curious to hear all about it… And I’m sure your writing will go well. I have never been as organized as you are… in my life… for anything I’ve ever written…

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    1. I’ve been dying to see this show and so I signed up for alerts through Broadway dot com for ticket news. Right after the Tony Awards new blocks of tickets got released and I jumped on them! They were expensive but not outrageous- this is my present to myself. It’s kinda the only way I get presents….

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