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Viola Kurtis

  • 5,000 words: Teaser and exposition. Introduce the protagonist and why they are as they are.
  • 2,000 words: Catalyst event. Introduce the second protagonist.
  • 9,000 words: Exploration of the story world; new characters and nuggets of information. Things are still going well, but introduce the villain(s).
  • 18,000 words: Things fall apart! The story becomes bigger than the characters. Things happen, they get saved, things get worse, repeat, repeat, repeat.
  • 6,000 words: Reveal bigger quest.
  • 6,000 words: Challenges are defeated. Things are learned. Characters change.
  • 6,000 words: Resolve any leftover issues. Epilogue.



Hi everyone

I had an email earlier today from a fellow nano-er, also my friend, with this as a general layout plan. The numers at the start signify the rough estimate on how many words you should try put into that particular section, not the total word count as I originally thought.

Anyway, I'm having to update my novel synopsis. My main character has run away and sadly, she hasn't come back. Also, on Friday around lunchtime, my computer crashed and had to be formatted. Those 30 pages of work on my novel ideas and characters? poof! Up in smoke, completely lost. All the information I'd spent july and august gathering, thats gone too. So with just 17 days to go, I'm working on where to go from here.

I really need to think about reinstalling word. I havn't gotten around to it yet, and the disk is staring at me, but i keep ignoring it. Productive... yeah right!

Anyway, I need to go come up with some pretty good characters to fix my gaping plot hole of not having a main character.

 

Until later, Viola Curtis

 
 
 
 
 

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