How Do You Turn a Spark Into a Blaze?

[Lydia S.]

@madelyn

No worries, girl! I usually take a embarrassingly long while to respond, so it’s all good. 😉

Wishing you the best with this! Go get ‘em!

[Koshka]

@madelyn

Uh, I’m not entirely sure, but I’ll give you an outline of what I’ve done.

I’m supposing you already have your character/s discovered for the most part, so-

I read To Save a Cat Writes a Novel.

And warped that advice to fit my own needs.

But what exactly did I do?

Well…

WARNING: THIS MAY BE UNINTELLIGIBLE AND HORRIBLE ADVICE. YOU MAY USE ANYTHING OR NOTHING AS YOU SEE FIT.

Figure out where you want this to go. In the end where should each of your characters be? (Well, maybe not each of them. I only just found out what happens to one of my villians, and I’m not sure who the other one is. And I’m in first draft stage, so yeah)

Pin down some themes. They don’t have to be everything you want to show in this story.

You probably have several scene ideas. Write a quick description on some note cards so you can move them around/add to them as much as you like. (or just do this in you head. I did that instead)

Divide your cards(or ideas) up into seven piles (brain dumps); The Beginning- Stuff Starts to Happen, Explosion!/Tiny Climax- Fake Solution- Character is Crushed/Major Climax- True solution found!/Resolution- Wrap up.

Then whenever you get a new idea you can catagorize/reorganize untill you have the first draft written. And then you can do the same thing with your draft! (Oh joy.)

That’s what I’m doing, and the only reason I put that on here is because it’s working.

I do recommend that book though, definitely if you don’t read the whole thing. Skip as needed.

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