Camp Nano Prep
Mar. 22nd, 2020 02:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunAs I mentioned recently, I'm finally in a place to pick back up my novel from November in order to continue where I'd left off and add some more words in April during Camp Nano. I ended November with ~52k and in April I'm hoping to add about 20k. I've been taking my novel and notes out of Google Docs and putting it into Scrivener in order to put together the outline and figure out what I'm missing.
I've done some organizing of the first five or so chapters and I've already identified a few scenes I need to add in. I've also capture a lot of notes about tone and setting that I can use in April to help get me started on filling in those scenes.
Some of the author Youtubers I watch have been doing extra livestreams right now, which have been helpful background noise while getting organized. I also follow one of them on Patreon and she's had some Patreon livestreams which helped me find a Camp group to join for April. I'm kind of new to doing Camp, even though I've done about 10 Nanowrimos. But in November working on this book in particular, I discovered how much I really enjoy having other writers writing nearby. And writing sprints with groups is incredibly helpful for me too.
Anyway, as part of this process of getting my notes extracted from my novel and organizing the chapters, I finally put together my playlist for this novel. I thought I'd share it in case anyone is interested.
As I've said before, it's a little depressing -- this whole book is a little depressing. But it's got a religious and supernatural bent to it, think The Exorcist. I also chose kind of low-key, low-energy songs for this, because that's kind of the vibe I got into when writing. I'd never heard Matt Maeson music before working on this novel, and found that Grave Digger was such a good theme song for this WHOLE book.
I am struggling slightly with Scrivener. I've used it before but never the way I am for this novel, so it's taking a bit of work, so I'm glad I've started early. If anyone else uses Scrivener for novel writing and has tips/tricks, I'm definitely open to learning more.
I've done some organizing of the first five or so chapters and I've already identified a few scenes I need to add in. I've also capture a lot of notes about tone and setting that I can use in April to help get me started on filling in those scenes.
Some of the author Youtubers I watch have been doing extra livestreams right now, which have been helpful background noise while getting organized. I also follow one of them on Patreon and she's had some Patreon livestreams which helped me find a Camp group to join for April. I'm kind of new to doing Camp, even though I've done about 10 Nanowrimos. But in November working on this book in particular, I discovered how much I really enjoy having other writers writing nearby. And writing sprints with groups is incredibly helpful for me too.
Anyway, as part of this process of getting my notes extracted from my novel and organizing the chapters, I finally put together my playlist for this novel. I thought I'd share it in case anyone is interested.
As I've said before, it's a little depressing -- this whole book is a little depressing. But it's got a religious and supernatural bent to it, think The Exorcist. I also chose kind of low-key, low-energy songs for this, because that's kind of the vibe I got into when writing. I'd never heard Matt Maeson music before working on this novel, and found that Grave Digger was such a good theme song for this WHOLE book.
I am struggling slightly with Scrivener. I've used it before but never the way I am for this novel, so it's taking a bit of work, so I'm glad I've started early. If anyone else uses Scrivener for novel writing and has tips/tricks, I'm definitely open to learning more.
