advice is good, but i must be true to myself
Have read a couple of times that reading a manuscript while writing it is a no-no. But yesterday I felt an impasse
1a : a predicament affording no obvious escape
It sounds like writer’s block, but it isn’t (it is more of a dissatisfied feeling, ahem), and decided that reading the manuscript while writing hasn’t hurt me in the past. It’s just how I write — how the story and characters evolve and grow in my mind because I don’t plan them.
A Tale To Tell is the one novel I semi-planned. Huh, it is taking me years to write, whereas the other two didn’t. Hmm, so I was correct yesterday in printing the first forty pages, which I am reading today before anything else but which I will not edit until I print and read all twenty-five chapters I have so far. I used to edit right after reading, even if I just read one chapter, but it detracts from the process, so I will read it before I edit the manuscript. Too-do-loo!
it is not my way or the highway, it is just my way
I had forgotten, or maybe not realized it because my first two novels just happened, how much reading about my characters gets me into their lives and feeds my creative mind!
this COMPILE thing in Scrivener is a monster
And the manual is awfully written. Must search for a video online or suffer through it again and make an outline for future reference + for other souls. Something that works for me. Might have even ruined the presets I set up for Mine To Give. COMPILE is the process of putting together | formatting the manuscript for a document, pdf, e-book, etc. I just want to print for reading, nothing fancy, please.
