First week, do all the kids stuff: host sleepovers, make the funny family home-movies that only we get, go skiing, skating, snow-fortressing, hang around by the fireplace in pajamas playing board games, breaking up small, and then, medium, and then, huge fights, and so on.
Second week, my week.
Kids with their dad. Husband and his son, my stepson, spending some man-t0-man time together. A whole week's worth of it.
Me: WRITE UNINTERRUPTED.
That is the plan.
(And there. I know I'm officially a writer: all I want for Christmas is to pour the contents of my head onto my laptop.)
I miss those long days last school year when I Butt-in-Chaired for serious hours.
I'm curious to see what I will feel like working during my BIC week: my revising of MS1, my MG that's been on hold, or the cross-genre YA book I've spent over a week outlining and plotting in my new (old, now) moleskine.
It's almost filled. I'm proud of it and even if nothing comes of it, I'm still proud of it. So I'm cataloging it here, on this blog, that I...I...I think I've finally learned how to outline and plot a book, in a truly anal fashion!!!
if you disregard the disturbing doodling of the one-eyed woman in the corner, it's just your everyday innocent plotting of great grief and seething sadness and anger and revenge and pain and then, peace. oops. i just gave away my storyline.(And no, that's not another language I'm writing in. It's just bad handwriting + my mac camera + bad lighting.)
page 5, still storylining - minutely. those fuzzy looking red parts are serious drama.
oh, were you wondering about those yellow things? those are tabs of dozens of things i wanted to know about before i wrote my book. now i know what my main character's best friend's mom studied in college. my reader won't know it but it feels good that i do. is that weird?
a sample tabbed page. about mr. malone and his manifesto.anyways. didn't hemingway do the same thing?
Stay tuned blog.
My notebook looks like that too for the upcoming Winter Break! It's so exciting to have some time alone to write.
The tabs are a really smart idea, I might steal it. ;)
Yay, just a few more days to go too!
Good luck on your writing Michelle. :)