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Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 5, 63 scenes in, lesson complete
Where I am: Lesson 5, 63 scenes in, lesson complete; Lesson 6 started
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:

There was one scene throwing me for a loop, but after scratching my head for a while and checking the forums, I think I figured it out. So Lesson 5, done.

Lesson 6 is for figuring out who is in my story and why. I already have one Not Actually Important™️ character to cut, but thankfully it’s going to be as simple as deleting one sentence. Don’t know what got into me that day.

I am so ready to dig my fingers into this damn book, ugh, it’s gonna be awesome when I’m done.

No hesitation, no delay

The new job is going super well. My coworkers are really chill and nice, the higher ups are helpful and just want me to succeed, and there’s a good balance of expectations and freedom. I’ve never been happier about coming in to a new job.

So far I don’t forsee a huge conflict with my writing, considering I will still only work Monday through Friday. But we’ll see.

Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 5, 32 scenes in
Where I am: Lesson 5, 46 scenes in
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:

This lesson is a little tough. Trying to suss out the true conflict and meaning of each scene. So far no issues, at least.

I have come up with some good additions this week, ways to make some of the scenes flow together better. And I have a scene in mind that will probably get cut.

And now I’m gonna be itching to cut and add for weeks, ugh.

(Show us the way)

Late post is late, but I finally got a job offer yesterday! What that means for my writing, I don’t know yet. But I’ll work it out.

Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 4 complete
Where I am: Lesson 4 complete; Lesson 5, 11 scenes in
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:

Lesson 4 is one of the few lessons that is not only hard to measure progress on, but honestly doesn’t take much work. It’s actually kinda fun to lay all my index cards out and look at the various threads I’ve weaved together without really trying, sussing out what they actually are, and pinpointing where I went wrong with them.

Lesson 5 is quite a bit more work, digging far deeper into the conflict of each scene than probably anyone else would care to, which is part of why I started on it early. But it’s a great exercise to see which scenes are rock solid, which could use some help, and which missed the boat completely. So far, I haven’t had any of the latter, so let’s hope it stays that way.

On the right track

Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 3, 56 scenes in, lesson complete
Where I am: Lesson 3, 56 scenes in, lesson complete
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:

So instead of 56 scenes, I now have 63, most of which are pretty solid, which is not bad at all. Considering I had something like 100+ when I did this lesson with TAP, and a LOT of them were missing an antagonist, or conflict, or a twist… Yeah. There’s a reason I swear by the Holly Lisle method of writing.

On to plots and subplots.

You’ll be amazed

Goal 1) Revise TAP 2

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 3, 28 scenes in
Where I am: Lesson 3, 30 scenes in
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:

And here’s where I learn that I have a few more scenes than I thought. So the numbers will change after this lesson. But thankfully nothing really terrible. No frankenscenes, for one, just multiple scenes one after another without a break point, and only one of them so far with a dubious twist. Now that is an accomplishment.

I feel like I finally found a working process for writing that leaves me with something salvageable. Not that TAP wasn’t salvageable, but it was not easy by a long shot. And we won’t talk about SYCU… So here’s to better books and more of them in the future.