Literally, me every day...lol Thanks for sharing. We are def not perfect, but we keep at it. Some days we end up procrastinating more than productive work and that's okay too.
Whenever I feel uninspired in my writing, I visit your channel for inspiration! Your videos have been a comfort to me for years (omg, years! I can't believe it). Thank you for taking the time to make & share your videos, I don't know what I would do without you!
Resorting to a spreadsheet has happened to me many, many times. There's a fun to it if you're working on a bigger book series or a play cycle or something for TV. Where you are, though, I get the exasperation. That arboretum is such a pickup in mood, even secondhand with you showing us. 12:38 I immediately went "aww da happy squirrels" and now I forgot exactly why I got out of bed angry. It must've not been important.
Love the video! It's not quite the same thing but I think I know how you feel. I have a simulation that I've been spending evenings and weekends on since January. When something goes wrong I have to do a lot of forensics and look at the timeline to figure out which property was happening when and where the conflict might arise. It is really hard to wrap your brain around something when you have multiple moving parts across time!
I feel you in this one! Reorganizing chapters and putting them in the right order is hard. For my past novels I wrote the scenes that came to my mind and that usually wasn't in chronological order. Visualizing where the chapters need to go definitely helps. What helps me most is the Save the Cat Beats in which the scenes/chapters are playing and the character arcs. That way even when I write not in chronological order I know where chapters need to go based on the beats and the characters development :) Wishing you a wonderful day and sending you love and creative vibes
PD James, cozy mystery writer, said she mapped out a timeline chart for every 10 minutes for every character in her story. She said this helped her ensure the plot timeline was solid and that people were where they were supposed to be or it could be proven they were lying.
Do not feel discouraged, I also feel like I have no idea of what I'm doing when I'm editing/making sense of this in any novel. This is the part no one talks about in writting a novel. Outlines help, but there is a lot of work that happens organically and it sucks when you feel you have no idea what is going on. You got this!
I feel this so video so badly!! Currently doing a first draft of my second novel (fantasy) and I am so bad at intros, I had to go back and rework the draft or my brain just would not allow me to go forward (what I thought was the inciting incident should actually come after it, hence I had no catalyst for my characters lmao). one more chapter to go and I'm free! Wishing you luck!!
Ive never even attempted writing multiple povs in like over my 5 years of hobby writing. This sounds too complicated. Lol.😅. Of course i don't know your story but on the chapter that needed to be earlier but couldn't put earlier maybe you could've started it with "x 'insert time period' earlier"
Yeah it's definitely complicated lol. I don't think that would work for the style of this story but I'll look at it again when I get there in the read through and figure it out :)
Are you sure that you don't suffer from perfectionist tendencies, if you're on your seventh draft of your story? Because it sounds like analysis paralysis, which can happen to some authors and writers.
this honestly makes me look forward to finishing my first draft, because this kind of mental gymnastics is so satisfying to me
Literally, me every day...lol Thanks for sharing. We are def not perfect, but we keep at it. Some days we end up procrastinating more than productive work and that's okay too.
Whenever I feel uninspired in my writing, I visit your channel for inspiration! Your videos have been a comfort to me for years (omg, years! I can't believe it). Thank you for taking the time to make & share your videos, I don't know what I would do without you!
4:52 I'm doing that with my screenwriting software for my mini series! It's helping me with my rewrite! Thank you for sharing your process, Sara! :D
Resorting to a spreadsheet has happened to me many, many times. There's a fun to it if you're working on a bigger book series or a play cycle or something for TV. Where you are, though, I get the exasperation.
That arboretum is such a pickup in mood, even secondhand with you showing us. 12:38 I immediately went "aww da happy squirrels" and now I forgot exactly why I got out of bed angry. It must've not been important.
Love the video! It's not quite the same thing but I think I know how you feel. I have a simulation that I've been spending evenings and weekends on since January. When something goes wrong I have to do a lot of forensics and look at the timeline to figure out which property was happening when and where the conflict might arise. It is really hard to wrap your brain around something when you have multiple moving parts across time!
I feel you in this one! Reorganizing chapters and putting them in the right order is hard. For my past novels I wrote the scenes that came to my mind and that usually wasn't in chronological order. Visualizing where the chapters need to go definitely helps. What helps me most is the Save the Cat Beats in which the scenes/chapters are playing and the character arcs. That way even when I write not in chronological order I know where chapters need to go based on the beats and the characters development :)
Wishing you a wonderful day and sending you love and creative vibes
PD James, cozy mystery writer, said she mapped out a timeline chart for every 10 minutes for every character in her story. She said this helped her ensure the plot timeline was solid and that people were where they were supposed to be or it could be proven they were lying.
this must have taken her AGES to figure out, but that's so helpful!!
extremely informative, and encouraging to boot!
So glad!
Do not feel discouraged, I also feel like I have no idea of what I'm doing when I'm editing/making sense of this in any novel. This is the part no one talks about in writting a novel. Outlines help, but there is a lot of work that happens organically and it sucks when you feel you have no idea what is going on.
You got this!
Got it figured out in the end! And now feel much more confident in the chapter order, just took a while to get there lol
I think something like Aeon Timeline is what you needed here, for future reference!
I feel this so video so badly!! Currently doing a first draft of my second novel (fantasy) and I am so bad at intros, I had to go back and rework the draft or my brain just would not allow me to go forward (what I thought was the inciting incident should actually come after it, hence I had no catalyst for my characters lmao). one more chapter to go and I'm free! Wishing you luck!!
Here’s my problem : I have a draft but then my brain thinks of something else and I end up ripping up the draft or discarding it and making a new one
Absolutely make a spreadsheet
100%
Timestamp 8:28 yes I followed complely without confusion at all. 😂 (not being sarcastic actually did follow)
Hello, Sara! I don't usually comment, but considering you posted this merely 2 minutes ago, I must claim my first early card!
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Ive never even attempted writing multiple povs in like over my 5 years of hobby writing. This sounds too complicated. Lol.😅.
Of course i don't know your story but on the chapter that needed to be earlier but couldn't put earlier maybe you could've started it with "x 'insert time period' earlier"
Yeah it's definitely complicated lol. I don't think that would work for the style of this story but I'll look at it again when I get there in the read through and figure it out :)
Are you sure that you don't suffer from perfectionist tendencies, if you're on your seventh draft of your story? Because it sounds like analysis paralysis, which can happen to some authors and writers.
Lol it's not, but thank you for the concern. I'll talk about it in a future video :)
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For real
Wow that was a good video you have to eat content