TS: First Draft - 60%

Just want to talk for a minute.
Cause I miss ya.

I'll talk about the method of writing I'm using for Turesia Split.

First Draft.
This is where I write story only. No effort into prose, description, dialogue, emotion, theme, pacing, names, ANYTHING else!  If any of those things accidentally happen, good. Otherwise, they're later draft material.  I write notes as I go on things to return to.

I'd say I'm 60% done with 1st.  This is somewhere around 35k words.  35k is not 60% of the final tale, I've just covered 60% of my outline.
It's kind of cheap, the way I'm writing.  Some of the locations are literally ____.  Some of the characters are currently named Manipulady, Backstabber, Dubious and Captain (and I'm going to kill them all).  Some of the descriptions are like "and it looked like the other Orcanes" or "She felt sad" or (my least favorite) "X did something that helped Y and Z escape and X died in the process and everyone thought Y died too because Z was rampaging around killing everyone."

I won't waste time talking about what the additional drafts will compose of because it will probably have changed by the time I get there.  But I have some ideas.  I learned a lot in my first year as a writer.  One thing I'd like to improve is distinguishable voices amongst multiple characters in the same book.  To accomplish this, I think I'll rewrite the entire thing first person (for each char with a POV) then convert back to 3rd.  I realize it's a lengthy process and I'll need discipline but if this is how I plan to eventually quit my day job, it's worth it.

If you've read this and it makes you want to discuss your writing process, feel free below.  Even if you want to put a link to your own blog where you can discuss it in more detail and font choices and bask it in the radiant glow of your blog's following, put it in a comment.  I'll come read it!

Adio

A to Z Challenge - April 2013

I'm taking the dive and attempting to enter a blog once a day for every day (minus Sundays) in April.  There will be 26 days and so letters of the alphabet will be used to determine the topic of each day's theme.  If there's a clearer way of explaining that, let me know.

I'm hoping for two things by then.  One, that I'm done with the first draft of my current WIP, tentatively named Turesia Split.  Two, that I have more concept art for it so that I can post it throughout the month.

I plan for each post to reference a character, location, event or excerpt from Turesia Split (and preferably with no spoilers!)

I'll also be checking out other blogs throughout the month SO, needless to say, I probably won't be getting a lot of writing / editing done in April.  But I'll try.

For those of you also doing A to Z challenge, do you have a game plan?  Or will you just wing it?