[Novel 02] Removing The Excesses

My-Yesterday, I was reviewing some notes that won’t make it into “The Story,” because they didn’t serve “Novel 01,” but they did serve “Novel 02” by way of showing me how excessive it can be to deal with certain elements of life. Over the past year, especially, I’ve reduced my writing of music reviews to “the essentials,” so I don’t waste my time with random rambles. I save that energy for the novel, or more interesting activities.


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[Novel 02] Sammohini’s Distant Therapist

In my rush to tell “The Story,” through “Novel 01,” and now the pre-production of “Novel 02,” I’ve opted for a video-production enhancement to these essays. It’s great for marketability, but writing, alone, in silence, without an audience, has been a key way for me, for years, to expose certain vulnerabilities. How will I write Novel 02? Primarily through speaking into a microphone while writing? How about these quiet segments where I need to dig deep? No mic?


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[Novel 02] Lotta Small Updates

In this episode of brainstorming forNovel 02,” I can’t put my finger on what exactly I wrote as a summarizing thought. There were many smaller ideas I added to the plot and details that should help in eventually writing “The Story.” I didn’t have much of this structure when I wrote “Novel 01,” so, it’s nice I was able to iron out one major area that resulted in a more satisfying set of events, I think.


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[Novel 02] AI Thoughts: November 2023

Anything I write about AI will be outdated by the time of publication. I’m writing this in November 2023 for intended publication in January 2024. I wrote “Novel 01” without AI, just because it wasn’t available. I’ve used AI, with citations, since April 2023 in development of “Novel 02,” but my excitement is relegated to AI-generated first draft images and shortcut brainstorming questions. I imagine that things will be murky whenever I write “The Story” proper, so, cite AI now.


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[Novel 02] How Many Characters?

How many characters will “The Story” have? I can’t say for sure how many characters “Novel 01” had. When I go to re-read it, I’ll make the count, but I’ll also need to do some continuity editing, so, who’s to say how many characters there will be after I’m done with the 01.5 edit? As for “Novel 02,” the low-end estimate says I’ve established 142 characters out of a possible 537 characters, and that number increases weekly. What’s the limit?


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[Novel 02] Zbigniew’s Brainstorming Interruption

After recording the video that comprises a majority of the writing in this update, I dug through some notes related to “The Story,” “Novel 01,” and abandoned projects. I wasted many hours on many things, maybe to help me understand what’s important for “Novel 02.” My writing, artistic skill, and note-taking are all at the point where I can brainstorm for a period, take an interruption, continue, and not miss too many beats, at least… I hope?


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[Novel 02] Is It Funny?

When I wrote “Novel 01,” if I needed a new character, I went with random names and that was my character. No characterization. No real effort applied. But, I cut myself the slack of knowing I had two weeks of planning with four weeks of writing. “The Story” has been in casual production for 20-some years now… “Novel 02” has been in active production since April 2023. When is it alright to have “funny” ideas in our stories?


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[Novel 02] Maximum Viable Characters!

When I wrote “Novel 01,” I had a scene with a basically-unnamed, uncharacterized café barista. Sure, it’s extremely common to know nothing about who serves you coffee, but it was something I was thinking about in preparation for “Novel 02regarding two characters. I don’t think all characters in “The Story” or Novel 02 should have extensive backgrounds, but, I believe now in a maximum viable character or maybe better phrased as knowing healthy amounts about a character?


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[Novel 02] Shuffled Chronological Events

In this episode of brainstorming forNovel 02,” I barely summoned the energy to write much of anything, but I wrote 500 words in shuffling some plot events around in an order that made more sense for me. On days like my-today where I can summon the energy to write, I will. That will get me closer to writing “The Story.” If there’s anything I learned from “Novel 01,” however, it’s that it’s not good to push myself.


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[Novel 02] All-Hands Meeting Scoping

Something I learned while writing “Novel 01” is that the more you scope out your stories, the easier it is to plan out details. If you have an all-staff or all-hands meeting, then, who are the staff/hands? Where is the “auditorium?” What is the purpose of having this scene versus omitting it? I’ll have much to practice with “Novel 02” to write scenes like this before I write “The Story” proper, whenever that happens. Here’s some scoping.


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