If you also read my freelance writing blog, you may know that I recently reviewed two books on novel writing – both promising to help you write an outline / rough draft in 30 days.

After doing the comparative reviews, I decided that I was also going to put both of them to the test. I had two novel concepts to play with, and on June 1st, I began work on the first of them.

This isn’t my first go at fiction. I’ve fully outlined one dark mystery. It’s been shelved for a couple of years now, although I’m toying with dusting it off and touching it up if I’m still in a fiction-writing mood after these two outlines / drafts are completed. I’ve also done very detailed outlining (more like summary writing) for about a quarter of a comedy. I may be able to salvage and complete this someday, but I actually have another humourous project I’d like to pursue if and when I have the time, which would come before this one. I also studied children’s writing back in college, and still have some of those old short stories from class (and that I’d written afterwards) floating around somewhere.

My biggest problem with fiction tends to be that I walk away. I did intentionally for the last novel I’d outlined. I knew it wouldn’t make sense to sit down and fully flesh it out without taking a break. And I’m glad I did. Looking at the outline now I see a few things I’d like to change.

Anyway, I had started doing daily updates on my novel outline progress at the other blog, but frankly feel it’s more fitting here. So pardon the influx of posts today. I’m going to copy over the book reviews and first three posts on my novel progress, and then I’ll be doing any future posts on the writing progress here at All Book Marketing instead. I hope no one minds too much, and I hope if we have any fiction authors floating around that they’ll share some tips of their own. :)