Heir To Magic

I have started working on Heir to Magic again.  I am approaching it with a new scheme for writing. I started to plot it out using index cards like I had the first time, but I have changed my schemes and am instead going to try recreating the novel entirely in yWriter.

I’ve downloaded the latest edition of yWriter, yWriter5, which was released this past December. I can never thank Simon Haynes enough for allowing his fellow writers to make use of such a wonderful tool for writing. Particularly now as I am striving to get my novel salvaged from the scrambled mess that is my brain, sleep deprivation, stress and cold having made my brain so useless that I am still trying to write this single post over 14 hours after I began working on it.

Writing the novel is going to be a very very slow process. ::sigh::

My first step, after downloading yWriter5, has been to create a new project and put 25 chapters in it. I have now began creating the scenes that I can remember and putting them in chapters that are roughly where the scene will be in the finished novel. I then select “Tools > Display scene list” and bring up a box showing the scenes in the novel along with (among other information) what chapters each scene is in, word counts, POV character and a brief description of the scene. From here I can print this listing to allow me to sit back in a chair, watching the fire in the fireplace as I make notes about what scenes are missing and which ones I need to move around.

I’m currently waiting for my printer driver to download (at 19% as I write this), so I can work on the scenes later tonight, for now, I am going to go find something that might help me wake up some - or maybe take a nap… I haven’t decided.

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