Whelp, I did not meet the goal I set for myself by the end of September: delete (boring sections), move up timeline, and add more suspenseful content to fill boring sections.

I got a bad cold. 😬

And… The process became a lot more complicated than I thought it would. (I’m learning every step of the process that “writing” takes a lot more time than we think it will.)

I listed all the chapters, with key words from each chapter, and highlighted all the “boring” sections. Reading through each boring section, I determined if any elements needed to be kept in the story, deleting the rest. (Always save the deleted parts just in case!)

Pulling an intense subplot from my second manuscript, I figured out how to weave it into the storyline in a believable (and suspenseful!) way. Before the end of the month, I started writing those scenes out…

I may not have made the goal I thought I was making for September, but I’m feeling a lot better about the more complicated process – It should result in a better story, a more suspenseful story.

Have you ever been happy with the result of a process you intentionally complicated?

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