Hello Writer Bees!
Hope you all are staying safe and staying creative.
Thank you all for the lovely, supportive comments the past few weeks. I really do have the best readers out there. You guys made me feel so much better about my “same name” problem from last week. Maybe I’ll toss my worries away about naming characters and go with my writer gut. Thank you again for all the kind words and positive thoughts.
Life’s been busy this week. All good things, nothing bad. Didn’t have much free time but made do with the time I did have. Only able to get a little editing and writing done during my lunch breaks. Writing wise, I’m filling in tiny gaps and smoothing out transitions. Editing wise, I’m beginning to break down the story into even chapters. Didn’t realize until now that what I considered as chapter had vastly different word counts. Some were too short, some were too long. I’m working on find the goldilocks of things, so each chapter is around the same word count.
I’m still aiming to have a read through of a final draft by the end of Camp NaNoWriMo. I doubt it, but cross your fingers for me anyway. Right now, I’m stuck in a cycle of perpetual editing and writing to no end. Hard to see the end of the tunnel.
Question for the published writers and final drafters out there. How did you go about your final draft before publishing? Was it a lot of tweaking and editing before the plot just grows wings and flies out the nest? How did you know when your story was complete? I’m curious to hear what you have to say.
Aside from editing, my other goal for Camp NaNoWriMo was to plan May of Mystery. All the mystery prompts are scheduled ahead of time. Check that off my to-do list. Every month, I try to post one short story or flash fiction on this blog. Since May is detective themed, I’m playing around with a detective inspired story idea. Already starting the bare bones first draft. Hope you guys like it. If you have any ideas for mystery themed posts, or questions on detective fiction, let me know in the comments.
That’s been my third week at Camp NaNo. Working on both my WIP and on new content. Really looking forward to how my creative endeavors turn out.
How are your creative projects going? How is your Camp NaNoWriMo adventure?
Write with heart.
Love,
Lady Jabberwocky
Lady Jabberwocky 
Not done much on the wip! But loved hearing your journey!
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I haven’t gotten very far on this week’s episode, and it’s going to be a very busy (but fun!) weekend. But I have tonight… we’ll see if it gets done.
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I’m not on my final draft, but I did do all of my developmental editing upfront. It’s a bit weird, but it’s easier to deal with a few hundred sentences than pages. The task is similar to doing it at the end, with lots of passes and wondering if it’ll ever end. The main thing is to have a plan of how you’re going to tackle the edits. I cheated and used H. R. D’Costa’s books on Iterative Outlining as my plan. She does have advice at each step for working with completed manuscripts. I don’t know if this will help or not. 🤞
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