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Welcome to my little experiment—I mean, my writing walk-through. I seem to be compulsively long-winded, but I'm going to try really hard to be concise and not bore you all.
The purpose of this walk-through is to show the development of a short story manuscript from start to finish. Unlike books that talk about how to write stories, this walk-through will show you a real example from start to finish. This also means, you get to be there as I encounter infamous problems, like "writer's block", lack of time (OMG, help!), and perhaps even plot holes.
I think it behooves me to predict the basic plan. This will give you some idea of what will be covered and whether it will be worth your time to follow my project. However, keep in mind I haven't started any of it, so this is practically guaranteed to change as I go. I do not know how long it will take. I can usually crank out a short story in two weeks, but this extra narration will slow the process down. Here's to hoping it's done by Christmas! (This Christmas, just so I don't get any ideas about creative procrastination.)
a. Purpose
b. Considerations
c. What Is Your Purpose, Again?
c. Coming Up With Ideas
d. Selecting A Final Concept
a. Refining Your Concept
b. Where's the Plot?
c. Character Design
d. Refining Your Plot
e. Formatting
f. Point of View and Tense
3. Writing
a. The Beginning
-Interjection- Notes on "Finding" Time
b. The Middle
c. The End
d. Addressing any problems therein
4. Revision
a. Style (Efficiency, Effectiveness, Clarity, Audience, Genre, etc.)
b. Grammar (Briefly)
c. Punctuation (Briefly)
d. Edits to the storyline
f. More revision as necessary
e. Beta reading
5. Final Revisions
a. Polishing
b. Front matter
c. Back matter
6. What Next?
a. More on formatting for HTML, DA, e-books, etc.
b. Submitting to a contest, agent, or publisher
c. Self-publishing
7. Moving On
Templates/Guides:
Character Profile
Timeline
Problem Sheet
Arc Sheet
P.S. This process is more detailed than I usually bother with for a short story. This will be the same steps and techniques I use for full novels, but I'm demonstrating them on a short story because this walk-through would take me over a year if I did a full novel!
The purpose of this walk-through is to show the development of a short story manuscript from start to finish. Unlike books that talk about how to write stories, this walk-through will show you a real example from start to finish. This also means, you get to be there as I encounter infamous problems, like "writer's block", lack of time (OMG, help!), and perhaps even plot holes.
I think it behooves me to predict the basic plan. This will give you some idea of what will be covered and whether it will be worth your time to follow my project. However, keep in mind I haven't started any of it, so this is practically guaranteed to change as I go. I do not know how long it will take. I can usually crank out a short story in two weeks, but this extra narration will slow the process down. Here's to hoping it's done by Christmas! (This Christmas, just so I don't get any ideas about creative procrastination.)
Available sections:
1. Concept
(Read the Summary!)a. Purpose
b. Considerations
c. What Is Your Purpose, Again?
c. Coming Up With Ideas
d. Selecting A Final Concept
2. Pre-Writing Development
(Read the Summary!)a. Refining Your Concept
b. Where's the Plot?
c. Character Design
d. Refining Your Plot
e. Formatting
f. Point of View and Tense
In Progress:
3. Writing
a. The Beginning
-Interjection- Notes on "Finding" Time
b. The Middle
c. The End
d. Addressing any problems therein
4. Revision
a. Style (Efficiency, Effectiveness, Clarity, Audience, Genre, etc.)
b. Grammar (Briefly)
c. Punctuation (Briefly)
d. Edits to the storyline
f. More revision as necessary
e. Beta reading
5. Final Revisions
a. Polishing
b. Front matter
c. Back matter
6. What Next?
a. More on formatting for HTML, DA, e-books, etc.
b. Submitting to a contest, agent, or publisher
c. Self-publishing
7. Moving On
Templates/Guides:
Character Profile
Timeline
Problem Sheet
Arc Sheet
P.S. This process is more detailed than I usually bother with for a short story. This will be the same steps and techniques I use for full novels, but I'm demonstrating them on a short story because this walk-through would take me over a year if I did a full novel!
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Imagine you're reading to a live audience. It can be as big or small as you'd like. It can be your writing or someone else's. It doesn't matter. Indulge yourself in the fantasy. So you're reading to a live audience. They're enraptured. They're engrossed. They're generating a movie in their heads as you weave your tale. Imagine how important every word you produce is to these movies. Every detail you provide adds another layer. They smell the flowers. They feel the roughness of the brick. They see the vivid colors of the clothes.
And then you require they perform time travel to make the movies accurate.
Wait. What?
The chronology, or order
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I'd been alone in the wastes for near ten days when they found me. The building I'd holed-up in might have been a bank, might have been a church; I wasn't going to call it. But its walls were stone-built, and most of them were still standing.
Meals of tinned mystery-meat, and only-slightly irradiated water had kept me alive as I picked through the detritus. I found little more than empty, rusted tins, and kid's toys that had survived the fallout. That is, until I turned up the device; some relic that still had power. It came alive in my hands, splashing blue light across pitted grey stone and orange rust.
Of course, I was far from the only
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Here goes. Wish me luck on getting through this rapidly and concisely!
Oh, let me know if there is anything specific you would like me to address, and I will try to do so if I haven't already included it in my plan above.
*Update - March 3, 2013 - Added section 3. Writing (Notes: Finding Time)
*Update - December 20, 2012 - Added section 3. Writing (The Beginning)
*Update - December 15, 2012 - Added section 2. Pre-Writing Development (Walk-Through)
*Update - December 15, 2012 - Added section 2. Pre-Writing Development (Summary)
*Update - December 8, 2012 - Added section 1. Concept (Walk-Through)
*Update - December 8, 2012 - Added section 1. Concept (Summary)
Oh, let me know if there is anything specific you would like me to address, and I will try to do so if I haven't already included it in my plan above.
*Update - March 3, 2013 - Added section 3. Writing (Notes: Finding Time)
*Update - December 20, 2012 - Added section 3. Writing (The Beginning)
*Update - December 15, 2012 - Added section 2. Pre-Writing Development (Walk-Through)
*Update - December 15, 2012 - Added section 2. Pre-Writing Development (Summary)
*Update - December 8, 2012 - Added section 1. Concept (Walk-Through)
*Update - December 8, 2012 - Added section 1. Concept (Summary)
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Thanks for this, I think I'm going to have to print everything out and put it in my binder! 
I'm currently planning my first novel and things like this really help me to keep my focus, y'know?
I'm currently planning my first novel and things like this really help me to keep my focus, y'know?