For the last two months I have been studiously focusing on Ashes<\/em> and Blackout Odyssey<\/em>. Creampuffs<\/em> has sat on the edge of my periphery. I studiously avoided daydreaming about what it would be like if I “won” Pitch Wars<\/a>, that is, if a mentor chose me. Instead I focused on what I would do after the mentees were announced and I finally admit to myself that Creampuffs<\/em>, while it tried ever so hard, has gone as far as I can take it.<\/p>\n It’s hard not to think of PitchWars like the announcement of a school team; on October 12th all the chosen will be listed together on the PW blog. All hopefuls find out at the same time. The only<\/strong> way we find out is by searching the list for our names, our fingers crossed behind our backs, whispering a tiny “please please please<\/em>“, trying not to be distracted by the lucky few who have spotted their names already while we double-check, one more time, just in case we somehow missed something.<\/p>\n The results are going to be posted 3 days from now. There’s a lot of excited writers out there.<\/p>\n Oddly, I am not one of them.<\/p>\n I do have a weird sense of anticipation that’s making me antsy, but it’s not because I am anticipating being a mentee. Rather, the opposite: I want to implement my post-PW plans for Creampuffs<\/em> already. I have spent the last two months thinking about what I’ll do, and I want to do them now and I hate waiting<\/em>.<\/p>\n But I am also a grown-up and can see the value in holding off until the results are announced. It would be rather stupid to disqualify myself at this time just because I got antsy, wouldn’t it? So I wait.<\/p>\n Hating it.<\/p>\n In the meantime, I’m keeping myself busy by working on a “show bible” for my NaNoWriMo 2018 project, Fletcher & Cooper<\/em>. Someone online mentioned an article on creating a bible for a television series<\/a>\u00a0to someone else, which I opened out of idle curiosity, but half-way through I realized it might be the answer to my pantsing prayers: a way to do all the prep work for a novel\u00a0without<\/em> doing an actual outline.<\/p>\n Like many pantsers, if I know too much about the plot of my story before I write it, the story doesn’t get finished. I lose interest once I know all the beats, and so all the advice out there for “how to prep for a novel” which is outline-based is useless to me. (Just as a point of pride but all the stories I’ve ever tried to write to an outline, even a bare-bones one? Only succeeded because they went completely off the rails early on and were the better for it<\/em>. I’ll die on this hill.)<\/p>\n So outlines are out. But how else to prepare? And I want to make sure that I have enough plot to make it through NaNo. Even if the story is a wireframe that I need to fill out as edits, I want it to be finished<\/em> by November 30. I have too much in my life right now to suffer through another overhanging, unfinished novel.<\/p>\n Which is why I think the show bible will help. I can brainstorm characters, elements, locales, cultures, etc., in October. Even things I think I will never use. Collect it all in one place so that Nov. 1 I can hit the ground running.<\/p>\n Oh shit! It’s the Week 2 Weepies and Our Heroes are in a slump! What to do?? *flips pages of show bible* ah yes, NINJAS can reveal THIS PLOT POINT that I need to hit in THIS FULLY-FLESHED OUT BUT RANDO LOCATION. How? Why? Where will it lead? I don’t know yet! That’s what makes it fun<\/em>! Well, if I’m honest, designing the bible is pretty fun too. 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