{"id":252,"date":"2005-10-30T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2005-10-30T20:02:06","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T00:02:06","slug":"nano-prep-work-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/nano-prep-work-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNo Prep Work Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I converted my 8 page synopsis for <strong>Threads and Ties<\/strong> into a rudimentary outline.  For the first time, I&#8217;ve delineated chapters in a book before writing it.  I was pleasantly surprised how well that seemed to fall into place.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, the book has 14 chapters and 50 scenes.  I have three viewpoint characters.  The book will be in third person for each.  The two main characters are reasonably balanced between them&#8211;Jeff has a couple scenes too many, but that may shift during writing.  Nicole, the daughter whose birth caused the rift, has five scenes.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t do much character work, and I don&#8217;t have well-defined written conflict mapped out, so, once again, my life could become miserable during revisions.  Hey.  I figured out chapters on this book.  Maybe conflict will come next time.<\/p>\n<p>I also have to consider my naming.  I have too many similar names, and that&#8217;s a problem.  I have a reason for doing it, but if it detracts from the book, as I suspect it may, I will have to reconsider.  Nikki&#8217;s last name is the most likely casualty.  The Nikki\/Nicole complaint of readers makes sense, but I&#8217;m tied to keeping that for now.  (Nikki is the female lead, dare I say villian?, and Nicole is the newborn daughter she walked away from.)  <\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah.  Does anyone have any problem with me making up a small town in Texas called Hat Trick?  Speak now or forever hold your peace.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really pleased with how easy the synopsis makes this whole process seem.  Brainstorm the idea; capture it in a synopsis.  I&#8217;ll have to duplicate that process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I converted my 8 page synopsis for Threads and Ties into a rudimentary outline. For the first time, I&#8217;ve delineated chapters in a book before writing it. I was pleasantly surprised how well that seemed to fall into place. For starters, the book has 14 chapters and 50 scenes. I <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/nano-prep-work-finished\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-threads-ties","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}