Day 47: Funnel book, book magnet, and plotting the entire series

-
I knew I couldn’t keep up my uber-disciplined sleep schedule for long! I stayed up late last night working (doing some characterization research) so I woke up late today. I also spent some time reading a marketing book that was really interesting, but essentially it was procrastination of starting my writing work today. So I’m starting my plotting work late today. Still working on Snowflake step 4 (one-page synopsis) for the serial novel. *** While I was out walking, I did some brainstorming as to my funnel book and my Reader Magnet, and got some great ideas for both! The reader magnet especially has an impact on the plotline for volume 1, but it also fixes a problem I didn’t realize I had when I wrote volume 1. All I can say is, thank You God that I decided to plot the entire series before releasing any of the books, because several things I already wrote in volume 1 need to be revised before I can release it now. I know that especially in the world of self-publishing, books don’t have to be perfect, but still, I would hate to have to do a change in the storyline after I’d already released it. *** Ugh I stayed up too late again. But I did get some work done on Snowflake step 4. It’s still far from done, though. I got hung up on some of the events leading up to the climax. Time spent writing: 7 hours, 42 minutes (includes my story brainstorming time) Time spent doing other writing-related business: 1 hours, 41 minutes My takeaway for today: Thank You God that I decided to plot the entire series before releasing any of the books.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 21: Bullet journal, Surrender statement

-
Today was my writing Sabbath so I didn’t do any writing today, but I spent a lot of time doing writing-related things. I did some blogging, and I also reviewed my writing To Do list. I cleaned it up by checking off what’s been done, deleting what I no longer need to do, and making note of what I need to do this coming week. Before I started bullet journaling (in an electronic journal app, Day One Journal ), I had my To Do lists in a couple different places and I’d usually forget things I needed to do. Now I have them in my bullet journal, which combines journaling with task organizer, and I’m less likely to forget. I still set reminders for myself in my phone, but since I’m using my journal throughout the day every day, I’m more likely to see things I need to do. I found some of my old To Do lists today and incorporated some things in my bullet journal. One of them was my writing Surrender Statement, which is a prayer I pray before starting each day’s work. What’s a Surrender Sta
Read more

Day 783: Evaluation 7

-
It’s been almost seven months since I wrote my last Evaluation 6 , but I finally got around to Evaluation #7! Here’s the gist of what I’ve learned over the past few months about my writing and productivity. New schedule My IBS was slowly been starting to feel better recently. I am still extremely strict with my diet, but I am also starting to experiment with what foods I can and can’t eat. I have also started a new eating and sleeping schedule, which I have dubbed my “chrono-diet” because I’m trying to take advantage of my circadian rhythm, according to the book Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life (I had borrowed a copy from the library but I enjoyed it so much I went ahead and bought it). I have started waking up at 6 am and exercising first thing, then having breakfast after exercise. I do house chores and/or work until noon, which is when I eat lunch. I’m supposed to not eat until dinner around 5:30 or 6, but I haven’t been able to break the habit of snacking in the aftern
Read more

Day 91: Evaluation 3

-
Even though I was taking a few days off because of my health issues, I ended up doing some work after all, and also came up with some new ideas. But first, let me summarize the past month. Outlining my series Something which I thought was interesting was looking at the raw numbers of how long it took me to outline my Lady Wynwood’s Spies series. It had a rough start, especially because I changed my mind about it several times and had some bouts of writer’s block, but things picked up this year especially when I wrote down my writer’s process and began systematically doing the Snowflake method on each of the volumes in the series. I finished outlining all the books in the Lady Wynwood’s Spies series on August 1st! Yay! This included the serial novel. Unfortunately those numbers were not included in the above post on my raw numbers, but I will eventually do a follow-up post and also list how many hours it took me to write and edit the volumes in the series. Hopefully it will take
Read more