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Ugh. I made the mistake of buying an incredibly practical guide to fleshing out a basic story, and now I’m doing it to a couple of my other ideas that I really like, such as The Myses (yes, I’ve settled on one S). I LOVE the characters. it’s awful how quickly I get attached these days.
Too…many…ideas…
HAHA AIVRA
Aivry you little wibblefingers C’MON
my new favorite writertoy is index cards. I’ve played with them before, but never in quite this capacity. I’ve made outlines using half-cards before, so I could mix up events if I needed to…but now they’re straight up necessary.
I’m worldbuilding (as always) for an 8-book sci-fi cycle, which means that just a couple of weeks into serious planning, I have 21 character cards spanning 7 books. (we’ll see if anyone new gets introduced into book 8. that miiiiight just be too much.) I love that they’re tangible and that I can shuffle them around, lay them side by side at will, and take down spurts of notes as they come to me.
I was never much of a flash card maker, because by the time I’d written them down I had the items memorized. this, though – this is great fun.
writing-related things that I am doing:
this is a very strange place to be with a project – confident enough to draw up a road map, but hesitant because there’s no way I could be done with research on this subject.
which, in fact, I am not. superhandyawesomeboyfriend was able to find a buttload of helpful stuff last night, which I’m going to peruse today before/while/after I start typing up this outline. yes, it’s finally time – moving away from the notebook and pen and into the digital world.
I’m a little nervous, to be honest. when a project is on paper, it feels alive, real, and changeable. once I have typed it up, it feels like it settles into something resembling really thick clay: I can mold it, but it takes a lot of work and grunting and general whinging. but this has been a new experience, enjoying a novel idea this much, so maybe it will be different.
future-fear is a silly thing. it’s useless, except for informing my plans, but it can be crippling. I experience it a lot, especially regarding people I care about, but it settles like a bad cold over my projects as well.
so here’s to facing future-fear and overcoming it with a few good keystrokes!