As I’m writing, new people and places associated with them or plot points appear out of nowhere, like the student librarian and ‘geekgirl’ in yesterday’s scene. I’ve pretty much always done this, but in this case, it’s critical. Keep a list of characters, places and cars Sometimes I’ll bold the words to pop out for my attention when I go back to it later. In a separate document called a Chapter Diary, each time I start a new chapter or a new scene, I record the main action in the scene, the characters involved, bits of relevant location, and any questions that arise. It’s saved me trying to find the right place in a rather long manuscript and will also serve to help any restructuring I’ll need to do later. This has been a big twitter hit, having been retweeted lots of times. I’ve also learned some new tricks to “keep” in mind. Amazing! But my average has been around 2000/day, which has put me about five days ahead of the target schedule. One day I even cranked out five words short of 4000 words. As of yesterday, the 20th day, I was homing in on the 39,000 word mark and feeling darn good about it. It’s been an interesting three weeks, and lots of words written.
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