Novel Update - June 02 2026
June 02 2026 I have been working on a novel for a couple of weeks now. Just doing what I can as I have time. Most of that has been working on characters and developing a story line. Yesterday I wrote a draft of the potential first scene. That alone feels like a pretty big step for my first serious work of fiction, but I wrote the scene from the point of view of three of my main characters. Why though? I don’t know if this is how other writers do it. I chose to do it this way so that I can see the progress of the characters and that I understand them the way I think that I do. I’m pretty sure that I will not do this for every single scene. I may limit it to just scenes where I have a bunch of new characters all at once. I’m not sure. I found the experience to be very successful. I feel like I do understand the characters well, and that they all three have very distinct voices and personalities. It was really enjoyable to think about the same scene from a...