Mar. 21st, 2006

Plotting

Mar. 21st, 2006 10:35 pm
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Today was a decent, ordinary Tuesday. The Plot is taking shape...and getting more complicated, it seems. But, if it's going to be A Book, and not just one of my little novellas, yes, it is going to be a fairly massive undertaking. This family is full of secrets; I haven't quite pinned down the timeline, but it looks as if it's going to span 1942-1969 (or thereabouts). About half of it is going to be clues dropped in the journals of the narrator's mother concerning family events during WWII and then the late 1950's. The climax will happen when the narrator reads the journals after her mother's death and puts all the pieces together in 1969 (or whenever), but the action will intercut between past and present.

I still need to come up with names and backgrounds for two or three generations of this family. I have ideas about what they're like, but this is going to be more of a three-ring circus than I'm used to. I've already hashed out a rough genealogy; I need to figure out who's married to who, what their professions are and where everyone lives. And I'm going to have to come up with a map of the area around the house....

Lots to do....

Plotting

Mar. 21st, 2006 10:35 pm
vanillafluffy: (Default)
Today was a decent, ordinary Tuesday. The Plot is taking shape...and getting more complicated, it seems. But, if it's going to be A Book, and not just one of my little novellas, yes, it is going to be a fairly massive undertaking. This family is full of secrets; I haven't quite pinned down the timeline, but it looks as if it's going to span 1942-1969 (or thereabouts). About half of it is going to be clues dropped in the journals of the narrator's mother concerning family events during WWII and then the late 1950's. The climax will happen when the narrator reads the journals after her mother's death and puts all the pieces together in 1969 (or whenever), but the action will intercut between past and present.

I still need to come up with names and backgrounds for two or three generations of this family. I have ideas about what they're like, but this is going to be more of a three-ring circus than I'm used to. I've already hashed out a rough genealogy; I need to figure out who's married to who, what their professions are and where everyone lives. And I'm going to have to come up with a map of the area around the house....

Lots to do....

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