Progress-a-mundo

[cathschaffstump]

After an afternoon of scooping snow, because that's the Iowa way, I settled in to some writing. I have written a synopsis and outlined everything I had so far, and added another scene to the actual manuscript.

Which makes our word count meter look like this:

17,441 / 90,000 (19.4%)

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It looks like I will be able to send the first chapter for my application. I will be editing the treatment to be as svelte as possible. It may be to my advantage to include a synopsis to explain the general thrust of the plot.

Here's that synopsis so far! Would you read this book? I think the last line is a little cheesy, so I'm still working on it.

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Comments

[david-bridger.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting concept that promises a thundering good read, but the synopsis itself feels a bit too panoramic, which makes it rather impersonal. Or, rather, its lack of a strong personal focus makes the big picture seem dry.

[awelkin.livejournal.com]

I see.

I'll have to think about how to make something that is panoramic sound personal. My problem is that the story is about several protagonists.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep playing.

Catherine

[zeelandia.livejournal.com]

Holy moses! To me it sounds like a very ambitious story, one I'd pick up just to see how everything pans out.

The bit about Hell bordering the land of the Sidhe interests me, along with our fragmented character.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

that soudns liek sioemthign i'd read .althoug hi never knew the other realms where form the imagination of..of each other? yo uneed to make absolutely sure that we as readers know what happens where and who belongs to whom. i had a problem once wit hsomethign that had this blur between dream and reality *and* other words and...whew. not to pick out some kid nof dead lgo of wood yo 'vealready know nin and out for years but i think tolkien did a great job in his third book. with three plotsthat had less threadignand braiding together than yours semeto have. if you ca npull it off i na way that has it work *like* it does in a movie preferabl yi nsucha way that no-one needs or wants to see this o nthe big screen..yeah. you'll be very great. your'e great enoug halready for thinkign this up adn daring to tackle it. if this was a prompt give nto me by someone i'd ru naway from it and get scared of the outline. which in m yhead looks liek a spider web to me. whoa.
and that last line? mabye you'll ned to first say the faery battle starts up and then somethign about it beomces less clear where the boundaries lie. oh and question: can i get some humans somewhere inthe book? i'l lnnever forget how i read the trol lbits and completely forgotthe ywere trolls,. unless erm, the humans are the ones spinnign the story