Arguing with the voices in my head
After a month long break from almost everything, I'm back. Here's my first one for the new year. For the first time ever I actually outlined one of my books. Normally I am a linear writer. I start and point A and write until I reach point B, C, D, and so on. I never really liked outlining in my writing. I prefer to be more free form. (As evidenced in the random nature of my posts…) With Hero Unit 2, however, I had to follow an outline. There were too many points in the story that I needed an actual time frame. I need to know where my characters will be at given intervals. I have to know how long it’s going to take for them to drive from point A to point B so the story seems believable. This is a very new experience for me. People might wonder why I needed this information, or why I haven’t needed it previously. With Hero Unit (the first one) I was dealing with a different kind of case. There was less of a timeline for my characters to estab