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Snowflaking
Wednesday, 16 September 2020 13:43After getting pretty deep into the snowflake method while working on Blue Rose, I'm now trying it again from scratch for Iron Codex.
Blue Rose's outline process was extremely fraught, and for reasons having nothing to do with the outline, never made it to the coveted second draft (which cut out one of the major characters planned for draft 1).
For Iron Codex, I'm trying to do it right, that is, get a solid outline that fits the criteria before I start writing the first draft. It's mid-September (...holy crap!) and I want to draft in November, for NaNoWriMo. Looking at the method's ten steps, I figure I definitely need the first six to be airtight, but I'm not sure how I feel about steps seven through nine.
Right now, I'm working on step 5 and I'm ambivalent. Conclusions will need to be drawn at a later time, when I have more data.
It's worth noting that Iron Codex is a very weird thematic hybrid of Blue Rose and my 2016 NaNovel, "Shadow of a Black Star", except... even more Jewish than either of those.
Blue Rose's outline process was extremely fraught, and for reasons having nothing to do with the outline, never made it to the coveted second draft (which cut out one of the major characters planned for draft 1).
For Iron Codex, I'm trying to do it right, that is, get a solid outline that fits the criteria before I start writing the first draft. It's mid-September (...holy crap!) and I want to draft in November, for NaNoWriMo. Looking at the method's ten steps, I figure I definitely need the first six to be airtight, but I'm not sure how I feel about steps seven through nine.
Right now, I'm working on step 5 and I'm ambivalent. Conclusions will need to be drawn at a later time, when I have more data.
It's worth noting that Iron Codex is a very weird thematic hybrid of Blue Rose and my 2016 NaNovel, "Shadow of a Black Star", except... even more Jewish than either of those.
