Lesson 12

Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

• My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
• Where I planned to be: Lesson 12 complete
• Where I am: Lesson 12 complete
• On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:

‘What happened to Lesson 11?’, I hear someone who’s actually paying attention whisper.

I skipped it. Why? Because Lesson 11 is about adding or cutting for length. If anything, I need to add, but I’m not nailed to a specific word count. (Ah, the freedom of self-pub.) As it is, I already know I’ll be adding, and this go around I’m pretty certain what I’ll be adding will more than make up for what I’ll need to cut. So. Bye-bye Lesson 11.

As for Lesson 12, it’s all about characters. And if there’s one thing I’ve subconsciously learned from Holly, it’s how to write with a lean cast. All of my named characters are important, and out of the grand total of three that are unnamed, only one is completely expendable. Lucky for me, said character is as easy to remove as one sentence. Done.

The rest of the lesson is writing down the purpose of each scene in my new outline and listing the characters in each. On to Lesson 13.