{"id":712,"date":"2010-08-02T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2010\/08\/02\/behold-my-invention-the-wheel\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T16:08:00","slug":"behold-my-invention-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2010\/08\/02\/behold-my-invention-the-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold My Invention, the Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_sS4sIiNH6pg\/TFbtn4TamDI\/AAAAAAAAAYY\/jMp3jIvdh30\/s1600\/Stone+Wheel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_sS4sIiNH6pg\/TFbtn4TamDI\/AAAAAAAAAYY\/jMp3jIvdh30\/s400\/Stone+Wheel.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know what I&#8217;ve just discovered?<\/p>\n<p>My manuscript doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect the first time. I can start out with this thing called a &#8220;rough draft.&#8221; Get the main shape of the plot down on paper. Then go back with a finer brush and paint in the details.<\/p>\n<p>Whoah! Did I think of that all by myself? Man, I&#8217;m a genius!<\/p>\n<p>Ok, ok, this is Novelwriting 101. I am a big dork. Sometimes you have rediscover basic rules for writing over again. As the saying goes, &#8220;A fool can be told something 1000 times and never learn it. A genius need be told only seven-hundred-and-twenty-six times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of trying something 726 times, I have again re-arranged Dindi (the series). Quick history: The project started as one 200,000 word book with 7 sections.  That was too long, so I thought, what if I make each section into its own book? I wrote an additional 90,000 words for book one. Then I decided that I wanted the series finished, whether Book 1 has sold yet or not, and 7 books was too long. I played around with a quartet. <\/p>\n<p>Inspiration: I have 300,000 words written and a complete series arc. How about a TRILOGY? See how I do that? First I invent a wheel, now a stone ax. I amaze myself.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, the reason I dismissed a trilogy before was because I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to divide 7 by 3. Math, not my forte. (See the post on this topic on The Screaming Guppy.) Then I had a BRILLIANT idea. This time I&#8217;m not being sarcastic. Yes, a little bit self-mocking, just to pretend I&#8217;m being humble, but mostly I am serious. I re-arranged the order of the seven sections!<\/p>\n<p>Now I have one (hopefully) polished mss (Book 1) and two virtually complete but extremely rough drafts. The word count aim for both is 100,000-110,00 words. As they stand:<\/p>\n<p>Book 2: 102,000 words<br \/>Book 3: 88,000 words<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a happy camper.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Back to work on my wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Or I could think of it as writing a 300 page synopsis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what I&#8217;ve just discovered? My manuscript doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect the first time. I can start out with this thing called a &#8220;rough draft.&#8221; Get the main shape of the plot down on paper. Then go back with a finer brush and paint in the details. Whoah! Did I think of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}