Whew!-- Hello!
Hello,
I'm just going taking a moment to give this introductory post. I've read from the beginning (it took me about a week to get through all 85 pgs.) and just finished. So:
My name is Lauren (penname Laurence Ashton) and I've been writing for years, so I wouldn't consider myself a newbie. Currently I'm employing BIC to get through a novel I started in high school that I needed to recycle. It's a fantasy and the universe I'd created had gotten bigger than the plot, so that needed to change. :nerd
BIC got me through chapter three of this novel when I seemed to be stuck-in-a-moment!planningfrenzy. Whoot. I have great and t00by love for BIC.... Although I feel like I cheated because I don't write in a linear fashion (the times that I do, I get stuck in debates with myself, which is a terrible form of writer's block). So really chapter three doesn't literally mean third chapter--yet.
Still, I'm getting there. I've finished the prologue, chapter three, part of chapter one, and various scenes. Note: the prologue, I realized after reading this, is indispensible, so it will be renamed Chapter One. Thanks for upthread!comments that helped to clarify the prologue subject.
That's all basically. I've been staring at the rather distracting purple bouncing... thing
jump ) for the past ten minutes, and I think I need to post this before I become a jumpingpurpleball!zombie and am completely in its thrall.
Thanks to Uncle Jim for this thread. Thanks to everyone else for helping to make it so great. I loff the comments.
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PS-- quick question before I forget: In a third person past tense novel, is it too distracting to have (a) dream sequence(s) as such:
Character A dreamed:
CONTENT OF DREAM IN THIRD PERSON PRESENT TENSE
Continuation of narrative in third person past tense
Thanks!