Novel Work

Tonight I'm up with coffee, determined to actually kick out some work.

So far, I've put down the basics of Oriel's Book … well, the planning stages of it. I'm trying a different method since this is a book that I have the beginning chapters laid out for and know where it's going to end up, but nothing of the inbetween. I'm experimenting with Holly Lisle's note card techniques and using her clustered questions for questioning your novel.

Links:
A Novel Pre-Writing Workshop: Asking the Right Questions - http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/questioning_your_novel_article.html
The diagram of clustered questions -
http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/questioningyournovel.htm
Notecarding: Plotting Under Pressure -
http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/notecard_plotting.html


I think they'll work very well for me, with just a little tweaking.

Current novel workload is:
The Knightens Quest - accumulating crits from workshop - sitting on side waiting its turn for a one pass only revision before going out. About ready to be picked up again - first week of October. Revision goal is to have them ready by mid-November.
Prophecy's Last Stand - in first drafts - synopsis complete - outline will develop as I go along (for some reason I do better if I write a chapter and then outline the next five chapters instead of doing it all beforehand - although I can complete the synopsis before anything is written. Strange.)
Oriel's Book (still not named, thinking of The Tamanth or The Last Treltic) - long ago I wrote the first few chapters and I have notes on the book at various places, but not a whole lot planned out. - this is the novel that will undergo the above process as I work on PLS.
Scarlet Wood - planning in notes as I think of ideas - offshoot involving Elves from TKQ - waiting its turn.
A Druid Mage's Heart - worked out in many notes- adding to those as they come - waiting its turn - actually takes place before TKQ so it developed out of the background notes I created for myself on South Reach and the Druid society
Plus a few more patiently sitting in their files waiting for me to have time for them.