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Thursday, February 17, 2005

76K+ so I suppose I've made back about half or so of the drek I've cut, but right now mostly I have a big fat mess. I was at the gym the other dsay faithfully exercising, working on how to fix my mess and I had it all worked out. Honest. Then when I came home and had time to work, darned if this really minor character, didn't even have a name, didn't up and turn out to be a much more important character. The particular scene worked a lot better, so now I'm following through on that. Which is OK, I guess. Only stuff isn't in the right place.

Plus, I usually name my chapters starting with a 00n and a descriptive name and this time around, I'm just doing numbers because when I re-order everything,I don't have to redo the master doc every time. But I also can't stare at my list of descriptive names figuring out what else should change cause the numbers only don't tell me what's happening in the chapter. So, the jury's still out on that one. I can stare at my outline but that's about it. Anyway, some panic setting in. I hope I can get a lot done this coming weekend.

Comments:
if you use MSWord, maybe you could you try using properties for organizing chapters. In each chapter doc, click file proporties then the summary tab. In the comments box, list your scenes in that chapter. All sorts of things you can do then, but one is that if you open the novel folder on your desktop and scroll down the chapter docs, the comments show up in the sidebar, so you can scroll through your plot, if that makes sense.
 
Whoever posted this Thank You! I use WordPerfect, but it does the same thing. Way cool. (How crazy is this? Posting a comment to my own blog.)
 
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