Within touching distance...
After a couple of false starts, I'm within touching distance of having the book I'm working on finished.
By which, I mean it's the first draft on computer; the story bones are there, but they are going to need fleshing out and polishing up.
There are still a couple of places I need to work on - a lot - particularly as most of the action happens in a mine, which results in lots of to-ing and fro-ing between the mine and other locations. To-ing and fro-ing gets boring after a while, so I have to decide how to get the story moving without needing to describe the physical journey.
And there are plenty of places where I've added notes because I've realised something doesn't quite work in the plot...
And of course there are plenty of points where I'm not consistently in the MC's POV, where I need to be able to write the action and thoughts in such a way that my reader is completely immersed in my MC's world.
And last of all, I have to look at book one in this series, to make sure this one feels similar in style.
So yeah, within touching distance, yet still a long, LONG way off. Going in the right direction though...
By which, I mean it's the first draft on computer; the story bones are there, but they are going to need fleshing out and polishing up.
There are still a couple of places I need to work on - a lot - particularly as most of the action happens in a mine, which results in lots of to-ing and fro-ing between the mine and other locations. To-ing and fro-ing gets boring after a while, so I have to decide how to get the story moving without needing to describe the physical journey.
And there are plenty of places where I've added notes because I've realised something doesn't quite work in the plot...
And of course there are plenty of points where I'm not consistently in the MC's POV, where I need to be able to write the action and thoughts in such a way that my reader is completely immersed in my MC's world.
And last of all, I have to look at book one in this series, to make sure this one feels similar in style.
So yeah, within touching distance, yet still a long, LONG way off. Going in the right direction though...