The Story My Father Told Me
Hazel Marion
I am excited to announce that I have finally completed Chapter 1 of Prism. After spending more time outlining this week, I took Saturday and Sunday (today) to finish the chapter. Last week, I posted about 5 pages of the chapter, but I have added about 8 more pages to the chapter, for a total of 13 pages to the chapter. Including the prologue, I have written about 5200 words in Prism. I am proud of my success so far and I am excited to see where the novel goes in the future. I wrote the rest of Chapter 1 in about 2 hours. Including the beginning of the chapter, I would have spent a total of about 4 hours working on this chapter. Since the chapter (including the prologue) is about 5200 words, that would be about 1300 words per hour. This rate actually seemed very fast to me and I did not expect myself to be able to write that many words in an hour. I think the main reason I am able to produce so many words is because I already know what I am writing about and I don't have to think of details and plot elements to add in as I write. This is why the outlining process was so important. I needed to refresh my memory of the story and plan what I was going to write about in each chapter. So far, I have planned for 16 chapters, covering a little over half of my dad's original story. If each chapter is about 5000 words, 16 chapters would make for an 80000 word novel, which is a ridiculous amount of words that I did not see myself writing. But miracles happen, and I am confident that I will be able to complete the 80000 word goal in the weeks remaining of Genius Hour. So what about the rest of the story? Well, I didn't want to spend any more of my Genius Hour time outlining for chapters that I might not even get to write, so I have decided to just read the rest of the story and scan for plot holes. I've already found a few in earlier parts of the story, but I just want to make sure I know where the story goes and that I don't miss out on any events later on in the story that are affected by events that happen earlier in the story that I will be writing about. Not sure if that makes any sense, but basically I need to have a full understanding of the entire plot, even though I will only be writing about a portion of it. The image for this week is one I drew! It is a larger version of the demon elf insignia seen on the horn and the creature's armor in chapter 1. It's a pretty simple design but does give off lots of evil vibes. My dad drew it in his earlier sketches of the story, and I'm just copying from his design. Yes, my drawing skills are not that of my father's but please appreciate the effort I put into this drawing haha! (Also if you saw this blog post last week, yes, it was a different drawing; I had to update it because we decided the semicircle should be facing down, not up) Honestly, I think its pretty amazing how my dad came up with such a complex story right on the spot in telling it to my brother and I, and I applaud him for his imagination. I probably wouldn't be able to finish a project like this without help from someone else, and my dad's ideas are completely filling the gap in my imagination. I just hope that other people besides my family can enjoy the story and that maybe it could be published in the future. :)
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Hazel MarionI am a sophomore at Davie High School, participating in the Genius Hour Project for Mr. Barker's English class. Archives
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