{"id":1237,"date":"2012-08-23T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamsvillecomic.com\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2012-08-23T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T17:31:42","slug":"the-road-is-coming-to-an-end-and-book-2-starts-early-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/the-road-is-coming-to-an-end-and-book-2-starts-early-production\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Is Coming To An End – And Book 2 Starts Early Production"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m in the final, final stretch. 35 pages are left to be colored and then some adjustments and things will be finished.\u00a0 I wish I could show you all how this thing is looking right now, but I cant (meaning I won’t).\u00a0 It’s coming out really well.\u00a0 With each finished page I feel more and more that I’m making something worth people’s time.\u00a0 Lots more to come in t he next month.\u00a0 My official deadline for finishing this book is September 28th.\u00a0 Buckle in, the days are about to get long, but the end is around the corner.<\/p>\n

Book 2 Starts Early Scripting – Breaking a Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alongside of everything going on with coloring the book, I have started the early work in writing book 2.\u00a0 It’s been slow goings though.\u00a0 I know the major things that need to happen in this story, as far as book 2 and the story as a whole, but getting those things to make a cohessive story has been tough.\u00a0 But here are a few things I have learned in the process so far.<\/p>\n

1. Decide what HAS to happen
\nIn writing a long form story like this, there are lots of parts that feel like they can shift or end up in different places.\u00a0 You\u00a0have to cut off the fat first and get simplified in your outline.\u00a0 I found that I have had three competing storylines in the book.\u00a0 The trick for me has to combine at least two of them and then get the other to run alongside them.\u00a0 I think I am getting to that point.\u00a0 But taking the time to identify how to make your plot leaner and more focused will really help your story have more impact.<\/p>\n

2. Don’t Be Afraid To Start Over
\nEven though it was still early on in the process of making this book, I had invested some serious time into a treatment of the book that I was going to work through until it was right.\u00a0 In the end I decided the story was just simply not working and decided to scrap the whole thing and start again.\u00a0 With the first principle in mind the I was able to figure out where the story was lacking its punch and (so far) things are moving more smoothly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s still a ways out, but with those two early reminders in place, I feel confident I will arrive at a book that will be what I want it to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m in the final, final stretch. 35 pages are left to be colored and then some adjustments and things will be finished.\u00a0 I wish I could show you all how this thing is looking right now, but I cant (meaning I won’t).\u00a0 It’s coming out really well.\u00a0 With each finished page I feel more and 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