{"id":253,"date":"2012-11-24T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2012\/11\/24\/update-on-nanowrimo-23-from-outline-to-draft\/"},"modified":"2012-11-24T02:14:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T02:14:00","slug":"update-on-nanowrimo-23-from-outline-to-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2012\/11\/24\/update-on-nanowrimo-23-from-outline-to-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on NaNoWriMo #23 – From Outline to Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blake<\/a>I thought I would share how I am doing with the multiple Outlining methods I mentioned during the earlier Tips. I’ve used all of them. Some I can’t show today, such as the Sticky-Note Outline, because I haven’t taken a photo of my Sticky-Note notebook yet. (I will try to do that over the next couple of days.) However, I’ll show how I went from Beat Sheet to Detailed Outline to Draft.<\/p>\n

Here’s the Beat Sheet template I used (with 15 beats):<\/p>\n

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Act I:<\/div>\n
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1. Opening conflict.<\/div>\n
2. Protagonist is shown in daily life, before transformation<\/div>\n
3. Opportunity for change.<\/div>\n
4. Resistance to the opportunity.<\/div>\n
5. Point of No Return\u2014Opportunity Accepted.<\/div>\n
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Act II:<\/div>\n
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6. Entering the New Situation.<\/div>\n
7. Meeting Friends, Enemies or Romance.<\/div>\n
8. Problem Brings Them Together.<\/div>\n
9. Problem Drives Them Apart.<\/div>\n
10. Crisis Hits<\/div>\n
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Act III:<\/div>\n
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11. Terrible Secret Revealed or Attack Starts<\/div>\n
12. All Seems Lost<\/div>\n
13. Self-Sacrifice or Symbolic Death<\/div>\n
14. Final Showdown<\/div>\n
15. Conclusion (Wedding Bells, Award Ceremony, Pile of Bodies or Ride into Sunset)<\/div>\n

When I moved to a 12 Chapter structure, it meant that some beats would share a chapter. Not surprisingly, the order of the beats also wiggled a bit in execution. Of course, that’s fine. Also notice that I switched from Three Acts to Four. (Pictured: the Beat Sheet for another book, September Knight.)<\/p>\n

\"September<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the new Beat Sheet:<\/p>\n


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WEEK 1: SPIRIT WEEK<\/div>\n
Chapter 1 \u2013 School Spirit [Opening conflict \u2013 Meeting the Romance – Opportunity for Change – \u00a0Resistance to the opportunity]<\/div>\n
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Chapter 2 \u2013 Myron, Leth & Drake [Protagonist in daily life \u2013 Meeting friends]<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Chapter 3 \u2013 Snow in Hell<\/s> California[Point of No Return – Opportunity Accepted.]<\/div>\n
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WEEK 3: HOMECOMING<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Chapter 4 \u2013 School Bus of Love [Entering the New Situation]<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Chapter 5 \u2013 Pep Rally [Meeting friends – Problem Brings Them Together.]<\/div>\n
Chapter 6 \u2013 Coronation [Problem Drives Them Apart.]<\/div>\n
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WEEK 3: HELL HOUSE<\/div>\n
Chapter 7 \u2013 Fight\u00a0[Problem Brings Them Together.]<\/div>\n
Chapter 8 \u2013 Key [Crisis hits]<\/div>\n
Chapter 9 \u2013 Ghulinom [Terrible Secret Revealed]<\/div>\n
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WEEK 4: HALLOWEEN<\/div>\n
Chapter 10 \u2013 Tartarus\u00a0[All Seems Lost]<\/div>\n
Chapter 11 \u2013 Trick\u00a0[Self-Sacrifice & Symbolic Death]<\/div>\n
Chapter 12 \u2013 Treat\u00a0[Final Showdown \/ Conclusion]<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Next, I expanded the Beat Sheet to block out the scene by scene outline. Again, you can see that I varied the structure of this outline to meet the specific needs of this book. Since the book is first person, keeping track of PoV was not a big issue for me here as it is in my Unfinished Song books.<\/p>\n

Also, I don’t really need to remind myself about having a Hook and a Cliffhanger, it’s fairly internalized by now. (In the revision stage, I’ll check my scenes again just to make sure each is as strong as it can be.) Instead, I simply listed the scenes within each chapter. These scenes may or may not be separated in the draft.<\/p>\n

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CHAPTER ONE: SCHOOL SPIRIT<\/h3>\n

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LOCATION:<\/b> Darkgate High School, Ghulinom<\/div>\n
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SCENE 1 –<\/b> Ghulinom; Darkgate High School; Gate<\/b><\/div>\n
Brandon arrives at a maximum-security facility\u2026his high school. He is feared and respected because everyone, even the armed guards thing he is a drug dealer.<\/div>\n
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SCENE 2 –<\/b> Ghulinom, Darkgate High School; Math Class<\/b><\/div>\n
His \u201cDUST\u201d is really Magic Dust, which he keeps in a thermos. It\u2019s one of 3 things his mother left him before she died. While he waits for geometry to start, he wraps a bindle of Dust and puts it in his sock. Someone in a black trench coat trips over him and is so frightened that he runs off.<\/div>\n
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Class begins. MR. ARKANE, the teacher, a demon begins to say odd things about planes and dimensions. Brandon looks up and meets his black eyes, and realizes that Arkane is speaking telepathically\u2026also that he can\u2019t look away.<\/div>\n
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Until his shoe comes alive and starts eating his foot.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
SCENE 3 –<\/b> Earth; Cleargate High School; Quad<\/b><\/div>\n
Brandon rushes out into the quad where he reaches into his thermos for Dust\u2026but it\u2019s empty. All he has left is the Key left to him by his mother. Desperate, he grabs it, and it sends him to another dimension: Earth. At first he thinks he\u2019s spirit-walking, but then he realizes he\u2019s on Earth in the flesh.<\/div>\n
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A kitten leaps into his arms, followed by a beautiful blonde who says, \u201cHand over the cat. It\u2019s needed in a murder investigation.\u201d She is CLARE. She sees that he\u2019s green (to his horror) but thinks he\u2019s wearing a costume for Spirit Week.<\/div>\n
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Three more humans arrive: DAMIAN, tall, dark and handsome, who possessively puts his arm around Clare\u2019s waist; TIFFANY, who is dressed like a Christmas present, and a third girl who says the cat his hers.\u00a0 But when Brandon hands her the cat, he realizes she\u2019s a ghost\u2026and the other three realize he can see ghosts\u2026just as they<\/i> can. Clare explains her family are Ghulstrykers, with an Ancestral Weapon to fight ghosts. A ghost walks through her and she blows his head off. \u00a0Because of that, they invite him to join them in the library to discuss the murder.<\/div>\n
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SCENE 4 –<\/b> Earth; Cleargate High School; Library<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n
In the library, Clare explains that the ghost WALIDA ABOUDI was killed by another ghost, DORCAS LYNCH, the vengeful victim of a Homecoming prank. To draw the ghost out, Clare wants to run for Homecoming, but isn\u2019t sure how to go about it. (Tiffany says she would, but as an immortal, it wouldn\u2019t be fair.) Brandan says bribery works and experiments with the Key to make a candy with her name. When he makes one candy with her name on it, he’s pleased with himself and shows it to her.<\/div>\n
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SCENE 5 –<\/b> Earth; Cleargate High School; Quad<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n
Screams outside. They rush to find a rain of candy with \u201cClare & Brandon\u201d on them. Clare is humiliated. Brandon says he didn\u2019t do it; maybe it\u2019s a Halloween Miracle. Or maybe<\/i>, he thinks, that Key is a lot more powerful than I realized<\/i>. Except… he never would have put his own<\/i> name on the candy.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Clare is angry. Tiffany tells Brandon he would be better for her than Damian. Damian shows up and Tiffany seems frightened of him.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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But Brandon freaks out when he thinks about being with Clare. He\u2019s not good for her. Brandon suddenly wonders what he\u2019s doing there.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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A student walks by and Clare casually kills him. Brandon is horrified but she explains the student was actually a spirit who didn’t belong on Earth. Brandon realizes this applies to him every bit as much…and Clare is right. He doesn’t<\/i> belong.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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How could he have thought he could go back to Earth? He decides to go home to Ghulinom where he belongs.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tomorrow I’ll show some samples of my Rich Outline vs Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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