It’s got that indie-comic surreal feel to it, but it’s intense despite that. I can’t really describe it more concretely because the whole point is they don’t really use labels for themselves, they just are. I decided to read it earlier this week instead of some other things I’d planned to do, and I decided it counts. It’s about two high school kids with out-of-the-ordinary gender expressions and sexualities. This graphic novel is related mainly because of the most recent What Dreams-related conversation here, which was on transgender characters. I had hoped to finish this so I could show an “after” picture, but as I’m only halfway done, I’ll do that next month! Supplemental reading: (I’ve reversed the order of Page and WC from the picture above, so it’s more like driving directions - page number, then go however many words, then the next scene’s page number, etc.) I’m adding the page numbers after the scene edits so I don’t have to change them too many times. My list has the planet (which functions as the overall story section for me), a brief description of the scene, the page number so I can find it, and the word count of the scene (so I know how much time I’m spending on each thing). It can be a difficulty if you’re like me and you tend to chain scenes together, but for the purposes of the list, I just broke them up where I thought it made sense or where they might be divided if I need to move parts of them around. From now on, I’ll be adding to it whenever I finish a scene (usually every 2-3 days for a longer scene or chain of scenes). I’m really happy with it and it’s already proved its worth. So, provided I’m diligent about updating the list, it’s also a really nice form of instant gratification to see it move from a mess to a nice clean list. The list is color-coded with new scenes to write and with notes to add to existing scenes. My outline board is great for what’s coming, but not so great for seeing exactly what I’ve done - I have an awful memory and it’s easy for me to get mixed up about what happened in what order, especially if I’ve made changes to it. However, this was really necessary as a record of what I’d written so I could revise it effectively, and it’ll only get more important as the book gets longer. I don’t want to get bogged down in cataloging my project, I just want to get the thing done. I love lists, but I didn’t really want to do this one. Anyway, I’m adding scenes, and to that end, I’ve made a scene list. So, this month has been a little slow because of that, and just because I haven’t done much in general. I’ll get it in decent shape and then move on, I’m not editing even to the paragraph level yet, just the scene level.įor everyone’s reference, I hate replacing scenes I’ve already written. I also needed to add some more action since it started off talky, as I mentioned last month. I decided to go ahead and add scenes to this first section and edit on a macro scale, moving scenes around and checking for overall coherence. I’m almost done with the first section! The protagonists will have left planet number 1 by next month. I’ve been doing some editing and scene replacements this month, so the word count hasn’t changed a lot. My outline board looks the same, and I’m at 11,792 words.
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