Updates

After a long ride, Don needs to rest, which is the perfect time for me to transcribe my dictated notes. I am getting a lot done on the novel, without interfering with the pleasure of a trip through Europe!

Dictated the rules of magic today to be sure I have them all. Then I put them in order of importance (what the reader needs to know first, etc), and next I’ll check to see that I have scenes that clearly show how magic works already in place so I can add scenes that fill out the rules in the order the reader needs them. The Extra Credits/Mario model.

Never thought I’d be a quilter, but that method seems to work best for dictation. I know what scenes I want in the novel and what they are supposed to accomplish, but on the bike without the outline in front of me to check, I can’t always remember the scenes in order. So I dictate a scene I know I’m going to need, and sort it out when I get onto my ipad. Will have some reorganizing to do later.

Have got the opening to the first Pirates novel—it’s what I wanted, and sets up the rest of the book and the series.

First drafts are crap, but I am getting used to dictating scenes in real time action, and it isn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be. I can always edit later.