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Rough Draft Complete--Now What

The rough draft of The Cross is finished.  Now comes the hard part.
For me the rough draft is the funnest part of writing.
Now the real work begins.

I looked over the pages on the computer and came up with a rough time line.  2-4 days is my time line.  I jotted down, when the weather starts to change. 

In the story, the weather plays a part in the story. 

It is a ten chapter book. 

So for the next few days, I am going to concentrate on the first five chapters.

1.  Make a list of every character, and names.(so later I will not change names in chapter 7)

2.  Make a clear character chart for each character.  (I have a rough one for each character)

3.  Note the day, time of day and weather for each scene

4.  Make sure every scene has Goal-Conflict-Resolution

5.  Make sure I like the scene, If I don't like the scene, neither will the reader. 

I am not going to worry about word count.  Though I am going to rewrite at least one scene a day. 

3 Scenes per chapter=15 scenes for 5 chapters.

Should have the first half of the book done in two weeks.  Though it will have to have be fined tuned, but more detail, timeline will be set and hopefully word count .

So within a month I should have a better rough draft, to fine tune,. 

How is your rough draft coming? 

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