I may have bitten off more than I can chew....
I used to be a very linear writer--I had to write in order or it just didn't work. Well, getting a full-time job forced me to be more proactive about fitting in writing, and I discovered that I can get a lot done writing in Google Docs in my phone on my lunch breaks. More so than trying to write when I get home. But it's hard for me to work on an entire manuscript on my phone, so I was writing a little bit here an there of whatever scene I had in mind. Mostly in chronological order but not always.
Now I have a bunch of half-finished scenes that need to be fleshed-out and formed into a whole. About 20,000 words worth. I have a master document in Word that I'm copying and pasting into as needed, but it's kind of overwhelming. I don't know if I should just copy everything over and try to fill in the blanks or what. I think where I'm struggling is 1) remembering what I've already written and 2) figuring out how to feed the beginning (which I'm working on now) into the next chronological scene. (The last two thirds of the story are a little more coherent at the moment. I was having some difficulty establishing the confluct in the first act, and I don't know how to fix this.)
Any advice on organizing everything and piecing it together? I know that some writing software let's you rearrange scenes, and that's something I'd be open to considering in the future (if I could copy/and paste stuff in that I'd written in other programs, due to the phone writing), but I'm going to try sticking with Word for now as I'm hoping to finish my draft in the coming weeks.
I would love to know what strategies people have!
I used to be a very linear writer--I had to write in order or it just didn't work. Well, getting a full-time job forced me to be more proactive about fitting in writing, and I discovered that I can get a lot done writing in Google Docs in my phone on my lunch breaks. More so than trying to write when I get home. But it's hard for me to work on an entire manuscript on my phone, so I was writing a little bit here an there of whatever scene I had in mind. Mostly in chronological order but not always.
Now I have a bunch of half-finished scenes that need to be fleshed-out and formed into a whole. About 20,000 words worth. I have a master document in Word that I'm copying and pasting into as needed, but it's kind of overwhelming. I don't know if I should just copy everything over and try to fill in the blanks or what. I think where I'm struggling is 1) remembering what I've already written and 2) figuring out how to feed the beginning (which I'm working on now) into the next chronological scene. (The last two thirds of the story are a little more coherent at the moment. I was having some difficulty establishing the confluct in the first act, and I don't know how to fix this.)
Any advice on organizing everything and piecing it together? I know that some writing software let's you rearrange scenes, and that's something I'd be open to considering in the future (if I could copy/and paste stuff in that I'd written in other programs, due to the phone writing), but I'm going to try sticking with Word for now as I'm hoping to finish my draft in the coming weeks.
I would love to know what strategies people have!