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Friday, April 10, 2009

First Drafts of Chapters 1-4 are finished

These chapters have surprised me quite a bit to tell you the truth. They are completely different from what I had originally thought out for the story, but I think they are going to fit in very well with everything else. I've taken the focus off of the characters that I had originally planned to write the story for, and have re-focused the view from new characters' points of view.
I started talking about things that I had never studied or really thought about before wanting to write what I did here, so it made for some interesting research and made me think of new ideas for the rest of the story that I had not really planned on adding until recently. Needless to say, I'm happy with what has turned out so far.
Anyway, these section are meant to be read right after the prologue; so if you want to read some of it I'll send you a sample. I decided I'm not going to let everybody read all of it until I have gone through a second draft, if even then. We'll see.
All things considered, with everything I have written, it looks like I'm about 1/4, getting close to 1/3 finished with the 1st Draft of this baby. Awesome!!!

I also have figured out a bit of a structural process for the book. I'm going to have it split up into Acts instead of Sections or just chapters. There are chapters, but they are part of either ACT I, II or III, like in a play. The reason I though of this is because I had other sections of the book that weren't going to work in sync with everything else and I needed a way to make them fit together. So I'm putting in Intermissions between each Act, in which I can fit those in without necessarily disturbing the flow of the other sections.
Alright, toodles.