Hello! I meant to post this yesterday…but I didn’t because the WordPress editor on my phone wouldn’t let me.
So last Monday, I completed my novel outline and I thought I would officially introduce my WIP.
Presenting: A Taming of the Shrew Retelling. aka. Tots (Totts)
Yeah, I don’t really have a name for it yet, but it’ll come, it’ll come. So, for now, we call it Totts.
As of right now, I am hesitant to give you my synopsis as it will only become final when I finish the book. But I’ll give you the premise:
Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare but with magic and dragons. So yeah. I’m having fun.
So I decided I would make a weekly log of my Progress until it’s time to edit, publish, and enter into contest thing that I will give you more details on as I figure out how it works. Basically, I’m just going to be giving updates weekly until it’s done.
Monday, January 15, 2018 – Monday, January 22, 2-18
I wrote: 1849 Words
I decided to write a prologue for this book, and it has worked beautifully so far. Totaling one page of the book, the four people who’ve read my progress think it’s the perfect length and gives the important facts.
Chapter One is proving to be rather tricky. I’m not happy with the length, it’s almost too short, but I don’t want to make it too long. At this point in my progress, I could just fuse chapters one and two together, but I want to see how long chapter two will be before I fuse them. Better for chapters be too short than too long. Anyway, it’s too soon to tell but hopefully, I’ll have an answer to this problem next report.
I’ve also decided to share a short passage from last week’s progress, and next week I’ll share a progress from this week.
‘The couple that exited the carriage were some of the most voluminous characters I had ever seen. The dignitary was preceded by his belly which looked like he could exercise moderation. His wife had an ample countenance and shook with every step. An inspection upon their behavior exhibited pompous arrogance that accompanies many who are in possession of position.’
-TotS Chapter 1 ~ Wysteria Campion
I guess this was fun to write because I just finished Pride and Prejudice, and this is kinda similar in some ways. Anyways, I’m just super proud of these *counts* four sentences.
Can’t wait to tell you about my progress next week!
