At least it's a start

So it's been a pretty long day for me. Got called into work to do an extra shift after a lousy nights sleep. Still i'm pretty committed to keeping the ball rolling on this thing so I did a little writing, not much mind you, about 430 words of the outline of the first act.

I briefly covered Emily's backstory for myself. It wasn't as detailed as I would have liked it to be, but was surprised to find myself actually doing that thing writers talk about when they say they start to discover things about their characters. In 6 brief paragraphs she already seems more real and interesting to me.

I've always wanted to know the specific details of the writing processes published writers go through to get their novels completed. That's something they're always vague about at best. When writers talk about writing there first draft I wonder how that works for them. I'm not up to writing my first draft yet. I'm only 430 words into writing my first draft of an outline. I'd love to know how other people work. How the hell do they do this?

If I wasn't blogging about this then this idea would have already fallen at the wayside. .