(or, you know, I'm going to end up with a pile more words at the end of the month than I had at the beginning; it's all good)
Come buddy me! If your handle there doesn't match your handle here, drop me a line so I know you're not a rando :)
The fic's working title is Double Trouble, Triple Threat and I kind of already have 4K written? But more to the point, I have an outline that's got pretty much everything at least sketched out—I'm just missing clear notions of what medium-sized crises occur around the 3/8 and 5/8 marks—and I have a sequence of puntastic working chapter titles picked out. Which means this is my best-outlined writing project to date, bar an original novel that got backburnered until I can do the damn thing right, which I'm hoping means it's going to be a complete-in-draft novel-length come December.
And I have woken up crying two days running because of the events of my midpoint, y'all, this is gonna be a fun ride.
Wheeeeeeee!
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Hey, as long as I'm announcing this, do I know anyone—![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
soc_puppet, not you—who expects to be available in Dec/Jan vicinity to beta a ~60K fic for structure, plot, characterization, pacing, and/or flow, and who has or expects to by then have canon familiarity with Miraculous Ladybug through S2 "Frozer"? (I don't know yet if I'm incorporating anything from either half of the S2 finale. I'm waiting till I see the second half to decide.)
Because I'm doing a couple of big meta things with this piece: I am outlining and I plan to write from that outline, and I plan to send the complete first draft to a beta reader and come back a few weeks later to do some serious revision. So I will need someone who hasn't already got familiarity with the fic to do that beta read. :)
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In case my tools help anyone else:
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wrex_writes on Shitty First Drafts
Jami Gold's Scrivener beat sheet
Opposite Turning Points 1 and Opposite Turning Points 2 and Midpoint with Save the Cat via Lydia Sharp
(No, I haven't quite figured out how Sharp's beat sheet maps to Gold's yet, but the mirroring effect Sharp describes is a cool toy)
I might also use step 3 (the character outline step) from Snowflake Method
Dani Alexis Ryskamp: How to Get Motivated to Write Your Novel (spoiler: the answer is planning)
Come buddy me! If your handle there doesn't match your handle here, drop me a line so I know you're not a rando :)
The fic's working title is Double Trouble, Triple Threat and I kind of already have 4K written? But more to the point, I have an outline that's got pretty much everything at least sketched out—I'm just missing clear notions of what medium-sized crises occur around the 3/8 and 5/8 marks—and I have a sequence of puntastic working chapter titles picked out. Which means this is my best-outlined writing project to date, bar an original novel that got backburnered until I can do the damn thing right, which I'm hoping means it's going to be a complete-in-draft novel-length come December.
And I have woken up crying two days running because of the events of my midpoint, y'all, this is gonna be a fun ride.
Wheeeeeeee!
———
Hey, as long as I'm announcing this, do I know anyone—
soc_puppet, not you—who expects to be available in Dec/Jan vicinity to beta a ~60K fic for structure, plot, characterization, pacing, and/or flow, and who has or expects to by then have canon familiarity with Miraculous Ladybug through S2 "Frozer"? (I don't know yet if I'm incorporating anything from either half of the S2 finale. I'm waiting till I see the second half to decide.)Because I'm doing a couple of big meta things with this piece: I am outlining and I plan to write from that outline, and I plan to send the complete first draft to a beta reader and come back a few weeks later to do some serious revision. So I will need someone who hasn't already got familiarity with the fic to do that beta read. :)
———
In case my tools help anyone else:
Jami Gold's Scrivener beat sheet
Opposite Turning Points 1 and Opposite Turning Points 2 and Midpoint with Save the Cat via Lydia Sharp
(No, I haven't quite figured out how Sharp's beat sheet maps to Gold's yet, but the mirroring effect Sharp describes is a cool toy)
I might also use step 3 (the character outline step) from Snowflake Method
Dani Alexis Ryskamp: How to Get Motivated to Write Your Novel (spoiler: the answer is planning)