Westerwald Book 3
The tentatively titled Book 3 of the Westerwald series ( Life in Technicolour ) has given me major headaches considering I started with such a clear idea of what and who the book would be about! The problems lay in the middle of the book, where I moved scenes around so often that I couldn't remember what was where any more. (and of course, every time I moved a scene, it and everything after it had to be re-written. Again. And again.) So how did I solve the problem? Like this: I cleared my pinboard of all those cute cat pictures and inspirational quotes, and created a note for each scene. Then I stuck the notes up on the board, in the order I'd slotted them into the book. Each time I moved a scene, or changed the chronology, all I had to do was shift little pieces of paper around. You know that maxim that it takes a lot of work to make something look easy? Now I understand! Never again will I under-estimate the work an author puts into a book that appears seamless ...