writer – Page 5 – Meilo Zaborowski: Author

The red ones make me fly and the blue ones help me fall

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 14, complete
Where I am: Lesson 14, uhhh and Lesson 15?
On Target or Behind: technically behind?

How’s It Going:
Okay, so hear me out. Lesson 14 and 15 both deal with time; 14 with in-scene time and 15 with between-scene time. The only problem is I needed to figure out the between-scene time (i.e. the order) first. Because if there’s ever been a book I wrote completely out of order, it’s this one. But I got through most of 14 and the essentials of 15, and I should be able to finish both next week.

Tethered wings and captive dreams aren’t worth the suffering

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 13, complete
Where I am: Lesson 13, complete
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
I…feel like I never actually finished this lesson before. Like I don’t remember doing it. I know I have, but…

Maybe I’m just going crazy. That happens a lot in this process.

Guess I can’t pretend that we never met

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

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:
Lesson 12 is about evaluating my characters but, quite frankly, I tend to be very tight with my cast, and this book is no exception. I have added a few folks who are 100% new, but they are all individually necessary to the story I want to tell. I do want to make some minor tweaks, but that’s going to be done on a scene level basis, not an overarching, whole novel basis. So, uh, the bulk of this lesson went even faster than I expected.

Teardrop on the fire

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 11, complete
Where I am: Lesson 11, 13 scenes added, complete
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
I didn’t add as many scenes as I wanted, but I managed to come up with some brilliant ideas (that I’m honestly surprised I didn’t think of until now) and I’m really excited to write them. But I’ve got a few more lessons to go before I can do that in Lesson 17. Thankfully, most of them are pretty short and I should be able to knock most of them out in just one week apiece.

Just like suffocating

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
Where I planned to be: Lesson 11, ???
Where I am: Lesson 11, 10 scenes added
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
This lesson is for either lengthening or shortening the story, so since I came in about 11k words short of what I really wanted and I’m already set to cut several scenes, adding is definitely the way to go. I think ideally I’d like to add 8 more, but we’ll see how it goes.