I spent the day outlining today, and I accomplished my goal, which was to get all the way through to the end. I had some good new ideas…the story is still fuzzy in parts, which I’ll continue working on tomorrow, but it IS getting there. I do, at the very least, have a solution to my current predicament that ran me aground 🙂
I feel a bit zonked right now. Spaced out. I think it’s because I had been planning to spend this whole week WRITING. If I’d been able to keep up that pace, I’d be almost a week away from finishing the book. But, that didn’t happen. I needed to figure out more story instead.
I guess it’s the lack of structure that I have for my outlining TIME that leaves me feeling the most discombobulated. I spent *almost* as much time today outlining as I would have writing the words, but it’s just a lot harder to point to actual work that got done. The word count is so easy to point to and say ‘that’s what I did today!’ I don’t quite get that with outlining.
I will say this: I’m getting better at it, though. Before, when I was outlining, I couldn’t see the traps I was going to fall into. Now, I at least feel like I’m seeing the dominoes fall a lot clearer. So, that’s a breakthrough.
Just have to keep pushing forward.
Tomorrow, I get to play some tennis with a friend I haven’t seen for a long time. I’m looking forward to that. It’ll be work until then.
Wish me luck 🙂 Hope you had a nice day, too.