Finished Draft 2.5
A little over halfway through the month, I completed draft 2.5! Which I was pretty happy about.
On to Draft 3
I updated my scripts:
- I added epub support to my conversion script.
- I added a script to parse all the Questions, Promises, Reveals, and Goals out of my outline, so I can:
- spread out the dissemination of information, and
- ensure I don’t unintentionally leave any questions unanswered.
As I said, I’m enjoying the third draft so far. I have a very good idea of what my book looks like now.
I’ve already started the rewrites, but I needed to update the outline, so I wasn’t polishing scenes and chapters that would change drastically. I’m pretty happy with the way this is all going :)
Plans for September and beyond
I’m in the middle of massively refactoring POV 1’s 2nd Quartile. The refactor is somewhat daunting, but not nearly as much as it would have been without my in-depth outline.
After this, I’m going to tie everything to each character’s wound and tighten the story. Add more descriptions, finish naming characters, and track all of my questions and reveals. All of this across all 3 POVs.
Stats
I’ve been fixing parts of the manuscript as I read the epub. The non-manuscript word count is somewhat inflated since I have multiple copies of the outline as I refactor.