M.J. Whitehead

Just a quick post to say that I’ve gone through and done the short outline for all of the major plot points in Dreamspace. The story structure is sorted out, as are the basic scenes. I may need to outline a side-story or an extra scene or two for character development and setting, but the plot is all in there in something like 15 chapters. (Many of these chapters are composed of three or four separate scenes, as scene breaks are just too frequent to translate into chapter breaks for me)

I’m also about 10% through my first “skeleton” draft where I put all the basics in place. I do this while outlining because it helps me discover where the plot needs to go. Once I’m through the skeleton draft I’ll be working on the first version I post online- so we’re 10% there already. In an earlier post I mentioned I’d start posting drafts after I outlined- this skeleton draft I’m talking about is what I was referring to as the outline, and you wouldn’t really want to read it, as it’s more designed to get things out of my head and on to paper than it is to entertain. I should probably have been more specific, but as people say in German: “so ist das Leben”. (I’m too lazy to type the french)