Progress on Stage (wip)

Okay so my project is hard to see, but I feel it deep in my bones that I am on the right track. No way will I be a 'nanowrimo winner' but that's not my goal anyway.

I didn't do much work today--gosh am kinda spacey and tired after going to see The Secret Life of Bees with my daughter--but I *thought* alot, and did outline out my gameplan for Stage: I have 20 chapters outlined (minimal outline--literally "X must happen in this chapter to move forward." I don't dare do more than that at this point--it is enough. I know my beginning, middle, and end, I know my climaxes and I hammered out my logline. I also know my chapter-length goal (roughly 16-19 pages per chapter, 20 chapters--that puts me between 95,000 and 100,000 for the first draft--rewrite will hopefully cut, chomp, polish, add to end up around 90,000). Though I'm not specifically targeting YA fantasy, I'm keeping the ms below 100,000. I know, I know--but I know I can do it.

I rather like my plot. It is a simple one really, but it is original enough and based on something I haven't been able to find much fiction on (just a MG book), so I am excited about that. And highly protective, lol.

I feel a little sad, deciding at this point to focus solely on this one thing. But my track record proves to me that working on different things at once is a recipe for failure. BIG failure. So, there you go. Nothing else but Stage is on the radar for the foreseeable future.

I found a way cool word count meter though that I intend to utilize...it is a very simple one from Writertopia:



Pretty nifty, I think. Here's the link to it: http://www.writertopia.com/toolbox/meters