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I Might Have Finished My First Novel…
And I didn’t even know it.
It had come to my attention earlier that I wrote the entirety of my first novel in fewer chapters than I had expected. I just have one thing to say in response to that… how in the ever-loving HELL did I pull that off?!
I mean, granted, the novel was supposed to follow a specific plotline that I wrote a while ago. I wrote the outline several times, though this version of the story started getting its breath of fresh air on what I think is the fourth version of the outline so far. It went that way because of the amount of care I put into the story and outline by now.
Of course, the outline is not specifically meant for one novel. By that, I mean the story is a series of novels that I’d started a rather long time ago. Most of my writing is like “outline a novel in full, then write the chapters as I’ve planned them out in said outline.” How else would I do it? (To be less rhetorical, I’m an architect like Brandon Sanderson, not a gardener like George R. R. Martin.)
Well, unfortunately, things are getting crazy in that my outline for my first novel is longer than the book is itself. I had written in my outline that the novel itself would end at the seventeenth chapter (this includes the prologue as a chapter)… only for the story to finish at the fourteenth chapter…
