Revised plan of action

Attacks by germs is a wonderful opportunity to contemplate life. Amidst internal, mental yells of 'die! monster die!' at the tv (yes I was pretending the monsters were germs), I finally figured out my POA for the next few months of writing.

First of all, no panicking. I am still working on APWP. Only, just a page a day. More if I can manage it. 1 page is manageable.

Why just one page? Well, I need to start revising other works. First up: Termion.

Goals for Termion broken into smaller chunks

#1 Read it all the way through.
I can stop to breathe, carry on with life etc. However. I must not stop to delete words, or add new ones in. If I must, I can write down ideas in a comments box. This is to remind myself what is in the story.

#2 Go through each chapter, noting down characters, action, clothes, place names, etc. Everything which I conveniently forget and then have to insert using CAPITALS.

#3 Decided whether this is going to be a one POV book or not. Hopefully I'll have a better inkling after #1 & #2. I'm leaning towards adding one in - not just for the sake of it. That wouldn't work. But the majority of my wips are several POV, and I'd like to keep it this way for marketing purposes.

#4 Start revisions (with or without 2nd POV).

#5 read through again.

#6 Send to beta readers.

My logic: once I have an agent, I'll pretty much be doing this anyway (writing new wips while editing other ones). I may as well get used to it all now.

POV's and different voices.

Despite being ill, I am managing to write. And today I'm discussing povs and voices. In this post, they are linked together. Apologies if my grammar is worse than normal - I have germs in me!

In writing Imperial Intrigue, I'm using different povs. This is my normal style of writing. It was before Termion, which is just through 1pov. I enjoyed just 1 pov because I didn't have to worry about making characters sound different.

On the previous version of II, the voices weren't right, for a variety of reasons I won't list here.

This time, I'm worried that they sound too different. To me, they are different styles of writing. It's like writing 3 separate books.

Hallie - she's the character I have most fun with with, whatever version I'm writing. I guess because she's the FMC, and does cool things. I'm happy with the voice I've got for her.

Elita - she's full of hate in this version. She doesn't find joy in much. And the way I write her parts, well it scared me because its so different.

IMPSOL - the soldier whose name I can't remember, well her voice is different too. I'm worried I'm doing too much telling with her, but she is an observant character.

For now, I'm having to put my worries aside and just write. I'll see how the first preliminary critiquers react to it, before I make decisions to change the povs.

Do your povs have different writing styles? Do you find it easy to slip in and out of them (I do).

Imperial Intrigue plot fixed!

2.3k later....I have a rough plot for II. The revised version. I've got most of it down - the last part of the wip is hazy, but my muse doesn't like putting the dots down on paper.

Lei was sweet and checked it over for me, making great suggestions, so now I can start it. Got a small stack of Japanese homework to do today, then I can write. Will let you know how my new process of writing goes.

I'm excited about II, not just because its a new revision, but because of the new content. Although some of the ideas are new, I don't have to worry too much about learning what the characters are like, because I got acquainted in the last version. Thankfully the Emperor does come across as evil in the plot outline, so I should be able to make him evil in the chapters. I was debating having the FMC's younger brother be the 2nd POV (yes, big cut down from 5 POVs....), but a new, Imperial character announced herself to me. Xeryas isn't someone you say no to.