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Wednesday, 11 February 2009

More brainstorming!

Posted on 07:12 by blogger
It's time to get back to outlining! I'm working on a very strange outline this week. I'm writing a book where you get to choose which way the story goes. At the end of every page or two, there's a choice--do you do this, or that? The story turns out very differently whichever path you choose! It's been fun to come up with all the branching stories--but it's a very different way of thinking too! I'll have to photograph my crazy notecard board for this one and post it here.

Once I finish that outline, which I should this week, I have some manuscripts other people have written that I have agreed to read and critique. That and the outlining will take up all my office hours this week!

What I'm reading:

I finished Seraphina (terrific!) and The One and Only Ivan (which was also terrific!), as well as the next Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie--Peril at End House. My family bought that and the next one, Lord Edgware Dies, for me for my birthday. I'm already a few chapters into that one. So, a good lot of reading done last week! Not sure what I'll read after that, but I'll let you know!
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