Another attempt at novel structure

Another attempt at novel structure
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(Today’s post is just brief musing over my novel rewrite.)

David Lee Summers wrote a cool post on his blog called Music Evoked Imagery. I won’t steal his thunder by explaining it – just pop over and have a read. Anyway, one thing that he mentioned is the fact that he likes to outline the novels that he writes. For me that is something mystical. I have written so many outlines and everything just falls apart as soon as my characters start thinking for themselves.

“What’s that?”

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  1. “I have written so many outlines and everything just falls apart as soon as my characters start thinking for themselves.”
    Ahh, yes. They keep doing that to me, too! Isn’t it annoying? You come up with that perfect, structured outline, and they go “nope, we’re doing something else” 😀
    I once had a character literally blow up my plot by throwing a spell which wiped out the attacking enemy… and every other living thing in the area. It totally made sense to him, in the heat of the moment. The ensuing environmental catastrophe, however, put a quick end both to the war he was fighting and to my plot outline.

    Good luck with the rewrite! May it be one of the final ones 🙂


    1. Thanks 🙂 It’s an astonishing phenomenon when we find ourselves writing our characters like that 🙂


  2. I’m happy you’re getting closer and closer to the “Perfect Possible Future” of Pari’s story =)
    The “Perfect Possible Future” is actually a quote from the Andromeda show where it wasn’t used in a particularly positive light, but it doesn’t really matter.


    1. LOL – I looked up the quote 🙂

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