Tag: frozen dreams

I’m coming to the conclusion that I need to smack my Frozen Dreams hero around a bit more.  Dude’s a arcanopulp post-apocalyptic detective, right?  Only stands to reason. Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Ten: 12 Chapters / 26,703 words.

Although I’m debating about splitting this last chapter of Frozen Dreams into two chapters and expanding them out a bit.  I also have to decide whether to go to a certain location.  It’s a really bad idea, but since when has that ever stopped a protagonist? Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Nine: 11 Chapters / 24,708 Words.

More chapters, and fewer words, than I expected.  Although, no, actually it’s a little bit above a target number of 60K words for the whole thing.  Scrivener is I think estimating that Frozen Dreams will probably hit about 180 pages or so, which isn’t bad.  Respectable, even. Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Eight: 10 Chapters / 21,224 Words.

Yeah, this part of Frozen Dreams is definitely going to need some plot work.  Gotta remind myself more that this is a first draft, not the magnum opus. It can still be a little clunky.

Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day SEven: 8 Chapters / 17,420 Words.

I didn’t really need to really work on Chapter 7 for Frozen Dreams, because I already had.  Feel free to pass around this Patreon link to anybody and everybody, by the way.  Feel free. Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Six: 7 Chapters / 15,262 words.

Got the wordcount for the latest chapter of Frozen Dreams up a bit, this time.  Things are also starting to move along, here.  I must remember to put my hero in still more trouble, because that’s adventure, right? Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Five: 5 Chapters / 9,844 words.

Let’s see if this loads.  My area’s internet has been in and out for the entire day. AND WHY YES THAT HAS BEEN A JOY THANK YOU FOR ASKING.

Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Four: 4 Chapters / 7,729 words.

Experimenting with setting up scenes in Scrivener and whatnot.  I use it a lot for short story submissions, but Frozen Dreams is the first novel.  It takes some getting used to.

Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Three: 3 Chapters / 5,802 words.

And I’ve already realized that, dang, the hero should really interview the cleaning staff and the last people to use the room that the murder was in.  Like, duh, this is a murder mystery, right?  Makes you wonder what I was thinking.  On the bright side, that will allow me to establish some stuff for later on while getting my wordcount up as a bonus.  Frozen Dreams is a bit sparse in that regard. Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day Two: 2 Chapters / 3,849 words.

I’m doing this as part of the ‘motivate me to actually turn 50K words into a no-fooling novel” process.  Because writing the stuff is sometimes the easiest part.  Hopefully, the process will accelerate as I go on, but today I have a baronial newsletter to write so I can’t spend the afternoon processing three or four chapters.

Anyway: the working draft of Chapter 1 is in Scrivener.  Or ‘first draft.’ Or ‘rough draft;’ I don’t actually know the terminology all that well.  :brightly: That’s why they call this a learning experience!

Continue reading Frozen Dreams Working Draft Process, Day One: 1 Chapter / 1,901 words.