4/15/2023 0 Comments Aeon timeline 3This is because, whilst writing with joyous abandon, I open up great plot chasms, tie characters in impossible knots, and instead of stopping to untangle them and build bridges, I trot onwards because one thing I don’t do in November is edit.Īt some point I have to go back and peer into the chasms and gaze in horror at all those impossible knots, and wonder how on earth I can resolve things. Editing, on the other hand, is shudderingly awful. First drafts for me-and this means November-are not without stress, but generally thrilling. I love not knowing what’s going to happen, and letting my characters have free reign to find out things for themselves. Linda: “You said on page 24 that he visits her on Fridays, but this can’t be a Friday because yesterday he went to the evening class, and on page 122 you said that he goes to evening class on a Tuesday.” Linda: “Do you realise he gave her the flowers on Saturday 12th, and now it’s Friday 9th and she’s saying the flowers smell lovely but actually it’s 27 days later?” Linda: “I’m working on the assumption that you did use a tide table to work out when the boat’s floating, and when it’s resting on the mud, right?” Let me begin by sharing with you some sample conversations with Linda, Genius Copy Editor who worked on my first three novels. This year, Elizabeth Haynes, bestselling author and NaNoWriMo participant, shares how sponsor Aeon Timeline completes her writing toolkit (Want to try Aeon Timeline yourself? Get 20% off using the code CAMPWRITER): It’s all a huge process, but it now feels like building something sharp, tight and tangible, instead of looking at it through cloudy glasses.Are you getting ready for Camp NaNoWriMo? Every year, our amazing sponsors offer all kinds of prep tools as you pack for Camp. Once I’m happy with the bones of my story, I will transition over to Scrivener and start writing the scenes, and getting the book ready for another pass from The Editor. I’m going to work almost exclusively in Timeline in order to get the structure set. But it’s important to get this all nailed down and codified. ![]() I have a lot of this up in my head, based on the Editor feedback, etc. So what I’m doing with Timeline, is restructuring the content I already have, and inserting new scenes and chapters, in order to tell a better story. Part 2 was edited and I have copious notes from my awesome editor. Now that I’ve gotten these technical aspects put to bed, I can shift into a more creative mindset and hopefully carve out some time to throw on the headphones and make some magic! A Note on the Magic: ![]() ![]() I say all this to say that I don’t feel as if I was avoiding the creative process, but merely using the time I had to do what I was mentally capable of doing. I have the luxury of having children, which affords me very little creative time, but quite a lot of time where they might be running around, watching TV and being distracting enough where I can setup these two apps without having to use a lot of creative brain-power. It’s important to spend as little time on this as possible, so that it doesn’t take away from your creative time. If you put in the work, you’ll get a lot out of it. I’ll probably post a more in-depth video on this at some point but there’s a great deal of customisation that can go into making your timelines specific to your story. After something of a learning curve when it comes to syncing data between the two programs, I think I’m at a point where I can actually start working with both programs creatively. I’ve been using Aeon Timeline 3 in conjunction with Scrivener.
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