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Getting Into the Head of Your Characters

By on July 16th, 2008

While outlining Three Weeks, I’m doing what I can to get into the mind of my main character (Jillian). As the book involves her looking back over failed relationships, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately doing the same …

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Comparing 30-Day Novel Outline Plans

By on July 13th, 2008

I’ve mentioned this here before, but not in too much detail. When I launched this blog, I was nearing the end of one 30-day novel outline program for my book with a working title Sarah. With that novel outline (which …

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Three Weeks Novel Outline – An Early Finish?

By on July 11th, 2008

I poured through the rest of the 30-day plan’s worksheets and steps from Book in a Month today. As mentioned before, the plan is designed to help you outline and draft your novel, although right now I’m only using it …

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Three Weeks – Novel Outline – Day 3

By on July 11th, 2008

As expected, yesterday’s “scene cards” took more than one day (given that I used 17 instead of 10). Yesterday I took care of the first 10, and today I finished up the remaining 7. I also managed to get through …

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Three Weeks – Novel Outline – Day 2 and Plan Deviations

By on July 10th, 2008

I mentioned yesterday that I wouldn’t be following the Book in a Month plan exactly as it’s laid out in the book, so today I’m going to talk a bit about how I’m altering that plan to meet my needs …

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