Wednesday Check-in
Posted: September 1, 2010 Filed under: Wednesday Check-in, Writers Write | Tags: Donald Maass Workshop, writers, writing, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook Leave a comment »
Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: 74 tasks completed out of 591 possible, 5 since 7/28.
Lesson 11: Developing the Antagonist only gives credit for about a third of the work. I agonized over the villain, revising twenty-seven individual scenes. The follow-up began with the secondary antagonist. I changed seventeen scenes. The checklist gives the writer credit for five. Five. Not twenty-seven plus seventeen. “Did it help?” you ask. Absolutely. The fact that I found so many things to add makes the story god smile.
Now I’m on to the second part.
Lesson 11: The Antagonist’s Outline.