Words/Time: 27 minutes putting my 2018 NaNoNovel into Scrivener by the scene. Also 187 words of writing practice.

I thought I’d finish it today, but it’s a little more complicated than just copying & pasting. For one thing, I’m trying to utilize the tools in Scrivener to allow myself to see summaries of scenes at a glance, so that takes a little longer. But I’m also still trying to make sure I have the story flow right as I copy & paste things over. I don’t want to get too crazy right now, worrying about the flow and structure, but some of the “present time” scenes really need broken down into tiny bits to be spread out right for the “past time” scenes. I’m afraid the story is actually going to end up disjointed because some of the present time scenes are only a few lines. I’ll worry about that later though.

Words/Time: 21 minutes putting my 2018 NaNoNovel into Scrivener by the scene.

The draft I wrote last month was written in a somewhat complicated way, or at least it will be complicated to sort it out if I wait a long time to do it. I may have forgotten my plans by then. The novel starts in “present time,” then the bulk of the story is told in flashbacks, sometimes even going further back during those scenes. But as the month went on, I added quite a few unplanned scenes to the story, and I don’t have the organization figured out yet. So I put in the first half of the story, the organization for which I knew. And now I have to outline the rest of the scenes and see if I can figure out the best order.

If it turns out to not be doable without writing more, or without too much work, I may actually leave it for later and decide that fresh eyes might actually be what’s best for it someday.

I did not post the previous 2 days, because I did no writing work. It was not out of laziness, however, it was due to working too late. I’m trying very hard to balance family, work, and writing for the first time since starting this job, but an overwhelming project came to a head and I just couldn’t get to my writing work until it was too late, or until I was just too tired. I was very happy to get some work in tonight though.

Words/Time: 60 minutes finishing a spell-check on my 2018 NaNoNovel.

I was less than halfway through after starting the spell-check yesterday, but I decided to get the rest done tonight. Fortunately, I had time to do that. Tomorrow I’ll re-start putting scenes into Scrivener. Even just doing a spell-check, I was reminded about how much I really enjoy this story. I can’t wait to dig into the revision, but it really does need to wait.

Words/Time: 30 minutes doing a spell-check on my 2018 NaNoNovel.

I removed all of of the junk that I left in for word count that was pepped throughout the draft, and went to start putting scenes into Scrivener, at which point I plan to leave this story alone for a while. However, as I was copying & pasting scenes, I realized that it would be a lot better to fix the obvious spelling mistakes now, rather than doing it by the scene in Scrivener. In 30 minutes, I got through not quite half of the novel. I sure did write this draft fast and messy.