This year, I’m approaching the work slightly differently. Instead of always cycling in between my two protagonists, I’ve given my female protagonist two consecutive goes. I’m happy to report that this does let me drill down further into her scenes but progress is still slow overall.
At the time of writing and your reading this, I’m just switching over to my male protagonist and going through what I had written.
Now, as for the WIP overall, I think Act 1 is pretty much down pat. But Act 2 and 3 is not quite all there yet. Basically, when I outlined the story (yes, I took two years but back then I only started with the UBC writing a novel courses and I didn’t quite know the three act structure) I think I made Act 2 and 3 too short and I’ve now come to realise that I just don’t have enough content for them so for the last two years at least most of the work have gone into putting more content into these two parts of the story and filling in gaps. And it isn’t easy, especially in Act 3 when I feel like sometimes I just don’t know scenes well enough and so I left heaps of placeholders and I really have no idea what happens in between one chapter to the next. Basically, it’s back to asking myself lots of questions and jotting down ideas.
That’s all for this year. I will continue to plow on.
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