Andrew Jones’ Blog

This is the second time I’ve written this post! It looks like I must have forgotten to save the first one, and since I wrote it directly into the Wordpress editor… I basically wasted half an hour of my life, which I really don’t like doing! Obvious lesson to learn there!

So after writing my first novel using the method described in Cris Baty’s book No Plot? No Problem! (the NaNoWriMo method), then trying to edit it the following month during NaNoEdMo - and I’ve still not finished editing it! I wrote a script for Script Frenzy (2008) - which I’ve not quite finished (but did pass 100 pages, therefore ‘won’) I am now starting another novel!

This time I’m hoping to get over the pain of major editing by using a different method - as described in Karen Wiesner’s book First Draft in 30 Days.

This time you plan everything first, using the planning worksheets to produce a detailed plot outline which can then be turned into a nearly final draft!

So far it’s taken me two weeks to do the first six days… The trouble being that you really need to have thought about the plot and characters in some detail before you start the process, and I hadn’t. Also I’ve been doing other things - Internet Marketing training programs, looking for a day job and going to interviews and generally loosing focus! On all of these things!

So I’ll post more about this later.

cheers for now,

Andy.