I'm a planner, which means that the storylines and major plots are all worked out prior to the first draft. Yup, before I even start to write, visuals play over in my mind like a movie, and mentally scenes / cast characters are played out. I then scribble notes, research, and finally, once it feels right, the story starts to come to life on the page as I get typing.
The outlining of each chapter are the first physical steps I take towards creating the novel, brief paragraphs of what happens for a guideline. Eventually, a bare-bone first draft is created, by that I mean, a basic story, no frills, no edits, and from this point, everything must be fleshed out. This is when I add more description, such as what a place looks like, the clothing details, basically adding all those things which can slow down the flow when writing the first draft.
Scraps of papers, folders, and journals are my universe in a book bible format, and I refer to them frequently. You can read more about 'The Book Bible', concerning storing details HERE. :o)
Hopefully this gives you a bit more of an insight to me as a writer and person.
At some point I would love to write novellas to accompany the main books - A novella is a work of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. They are generally thought to be between around 20,000 and 40,000 words in length (roughly a third to half of a novel's size).
- Kitty's Story ~ The Missing Years
- The Deisi Origins ~ Their story
- The Heaven Stone Teachings and The Sindria
- Jonathan's Story
I'm working on a collected work of Haiku related to the books in 'A Carpet of Purple Flowers' Series.
- Character and place related ~ Book of Haiku
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