November is getting painfully close now, so I'll be writing in earnest soon. Presently, I'm jotting down all manner of notes, from plot points to character foibles to how an interplanetary parliamentary government is supposed to run.
There's some decisions to be made about this little chronicle of the process too, which I've been glossing over, thus far. For example, you'll notice I haven't posted any outline material yet. The wall I've run into there is that the outline is....well....an outline. I can't help but feel that it'd give just a little too much away for even a spoiler warning to suffice. It'd be like standing in the ticket line, before the first screening of Empire Strikes Back and talking not just about Vader being Luke's father but about Luke's attraction to Leia being illegal in forty-two states. Just saying, "Spoilers!" isn't adequate before ruining two-thirds (THERE WERE NO PREQUELS) of the saga.*
Mayhap, I'll post excerpts of the outline with corrisponding excerpts of the novel. Hopefully that can illustrate the process, without destroying interest in following the novel itself.
...And now I've written about writing about writing. This has to stop.
* -- Lesson learned: No writing after midnight. I start channeling Lucas, and no good could possibly come from that. Ewoks.... *Shudder* (Remember: No prequels.)
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