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RfaL Chapter 20 Breakdown! My process of writing!
🕑 Added 2017-07-21 19:43:14 +0000 UTC A question I've been often asked is: how do you plan your writing? Well, today I'm sharing you one example.So, first thing first: a year ago I did a gigantic storyboard (I like to call it storyboard, but it doesn't have drawings like a real storyboard) with the basic (and yet pretty accurate) progression of the plot. I also divided it in what I thought would be the chapters. As you may know, though, some chapters ended up divided in two or more parts, so the number of the chapters I have is now superior to what I first intended to have.
So when I start to write, I alread know the basics of what I want to show on each chapter. Still, it always helps me to write a detailed breakdown of all the scenes I want to show. This serves as a guide for me, my Northen Star, so whenever I'm having troubles writing a scene, I look at the breakdown and I'm "Ok, I need to do this, because then I jump into this other scene that I really want to write!"
If you read the outline and you compare it to the actual published chapter (also, side note: it says "Chapter 19" because I didn't count the April Fool's chapter, lol), you'll realize that there are scenes I wrote that weren't in the breakdown and things in the outline that I didn't end up writing. That's because this is a guide, but when it comes to the truth, I always follow my instincts while writing.
To finish this post, you may wonder why did I do it digitally and in that strange format. That's because I digitalized it to show it to you in English. The original outline is written in Spanish in my notebook, and I'll share it too!
