novel update

Was sat up until about 4am last night working on it. Longest i've worked on it in a while. I needed to sit and really think about where it's going. So i sat and went over what i done already and what i had in mind for where it was going. I had only gotten one step in advance of where i was writing so i had no concept of how it was going to finish, to an extent or a large amount of what it was going to be about per se. Relatively pleased with the first half dozen chapters as i was you probably would have struggled to write a blurb for it to describe it.

So i sat down and plotted out where it was going and took it to what seems a natural conclusion. It's sketched out to about 22 chapters just now. That should be a minimum, things may change as i write it but i now have a definate spine on which to build around. It could change quite dramaticaly if new inspiration comes along and i think it an improvement. I'm going to go over it again and try and plan the chapters in a bit more detail. Writing the story is easy enough in itself, you think of a plot and write about it. The harder part is trying to keep in mind to write things that give it greater depth and backdrop, easier to imagine it as a real place and so on. So with a little more work on the planning side i hope to be able to get back to just concentrating on writing it. It's taken a lot longer than i expected, especialy after writing the bulk of of what i've already done in the first two months. Still without wanting to set any specific targets once i get right back into the flow i hope to get it finished before winter starts to bite.

Other writing news, i need to go check what length something has to be to constitute a short story. No idea word count on it, it's in my notebook but it's 17 sides of A4 and counting so far and no end in sight. It's about a guy that goes absolutely tonto after witnessing an act of extreme animal cruelty and kills to two neds and then trys to get away with it and act like nothing has happened while inside he well cracking up a bit. Not sure how it'll end, reckon i will have him get away with it, though maybe he'll kill again and again and get blown to bits by a swat team as he tries to blow up an entire area of neds in the wishaw area.