Which quickly led to this:
So I haven't had much time to focus on editing my second Love Inspired Suspense. It's due December, but only needs a fresh proof read, so some time away might not be a bad thing.
Instead, I've been sitting with a pencil and a notepad and brainstorming scenes for my next full length novel.
This is how my brain interprets the structure of a novel into something that encompasses the amount of chapters I need.
I got it from a combination of Susan May Warren's Deep and Wide, and Save the Cat.
After structure, I decided to see how far I could get with a scene by scene/chapter by chapter outline that I stuck to poster paper. I used sticky tack so I can move the scenes around later, or put fresh ones in.Here's what it looks like:
But that's where I hit a snag. I need to create a whole town (population two hundred), and not just with normal people you find everywhere. Interesting people. Quirky, unique people with colorful pasts. I have maybe a dozen or so already, but some extras would add fun stuff to my novel.
I don't need all two hundred, but I'm planning three full novels and two novellas so a decent handful of characters would make it so I'm not just hanging out with the same people for four hundred thousand words...and my readers aren't either.
So here it is.
Comment below to be immortalized in a fictional world:
What is your name?
How did you end up in Witness Protection?
What famous person do you most closely resemble?
Tell me something about your personality/an overriding attitude/your strongest attribute?
