As I work my way through my rough outline (or skeleton as I like to call it) to the end of my book, I realize that there are so many loose ends I have to make sure I take care of. The first one hit me over the head like a ton of bricks yesterday.
Naturally, it had to do with characters.
I realized I knew everything I needed about Amelia, my heroine, but Jack, my hero was a cardboard cutout along for the ride. And my villain? Forget about it - absolutely nothing had been revealed. I decided at the last minute to put in some background info on my hero that deals with how they get the villain in the end. But I know it's too little too late.
So, back to the character worksheets and the story tracker.
I'm also approaching the climax of the book and am trying to take of the little subplots - gee, why am I writing that in the plural? There's only one - their romance. Anyway, their romance needs to be cemented before the climactic scene. Which makes me wonder if there should be more subplots . . .
Right now, I'm thinking "just get to the end of the first draft/outline!!!"
And that's what I intend on doing by the end of the weekend.
20720 words.
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