Yep, I'm doing it again.
They say you don't learn to write novels, you learn to write this novel. They say every novel comes to the writer in a somewhat different way.
In my limited experience, this is true.
My last novel had strong characters that were easy for me to write, but there were times I couldn't see what happened beyond the scene I was working on.
This novel I'll be starting in two days? I have a strong sense of the over-arching plot, large vistas, the big picture stuff. What I don't have is characters! This is scary for me. You can't tell a story without characters.
First drafts suck. This is another thing they say that is true. They also say a first draft is the writer telling herself a story. Subsequent drafts are the writer telling others the story. What that means is I can start with a major info dump of all these big vistas, describe the plot as I currently see it. Start with the panorama view, then zoom in.
And that's when those characters better start waving at me to tell their stories!
Got my fingers crossed and my stash of coffee.
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