{"id":514,"date":"2022-08-10T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2022-08-11T16:20:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T23:20:24","slug":"wip-wednesday-plotting-and-outlining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/wip-wednesday-plotting-and-outlining\/","title":{"rendered":"WIP Wednesday: Plotting and Outlining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First, let me just tell you&#8230; I could not spell outlining to save my life and had no idea how I was spelling it wrong until I realized I left out the &#8216;line&#8217; part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My brain is fried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So JONAH is next, and I start his book on Monday. I have a schedule already set out for the rough draft. I have August 15th to the 31st to write it. Then, I go into my second draft which is from September 1st &#8211; October 1st. It then goes to the betas before I get it for the final draft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now&#8230; plotting and outlining. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KILL. ME. NOW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I never had a great vision for Jonah&#8217;s book because the asshat is just a difficult wiener of a douchecanoe and won&#8217;t work with me. Lizzy is no issue. I know tons about her and her side of the story. I actually had to talk it out to my guy though during our travels because I had serious concerns I&#8217;d make her character too isolated or alienated, and just plain old difficult to relate to or like. But that shithead, JONAH&#8230; no clue. I&#8217;m sure it will work out on paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I have about ten chapters outlined so far, and I will probably tweak them a bit before I start writing and adjust more as JONAH pulls himself out of the miasma that is my brain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news&#8230; I have decided not to kill him at the start of the book to make it all easier for myself, so that is something there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, let me just tell you&#8230; I could not spell outlining to save my life and had no idea how I was spelling it wrong until I realized I left out the &#8216;line&#8217; part. My brain is fried. So JONAH is next, and I start his book on Monday. I have a schedule already set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,35,3],"tags":[50,40,33,5],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jonah","category-wip-wednesday","category-writing","tag-jonah","tag-somnolence","tag-wip-wednesday","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskywriteshere.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}