Meredith Turits
A twenty-something, Brooklyn-based writer/magazine editor's chronicle of her first novel, peppered with thoughts on the words and streets that make her heart race.

Twitter: @meredithturits

This is what You Destroyed Everything, my first novel, looks like strung up, dissected, picked apart, and restructured on my bedroom wall.  And this is also what the single most amazing thing that could have ever happened to my book looks like. Blue - Linear present storyline Red - Existing flashback chaptersBlue with red lines - Linear present with reference to past Green - New placement of flashbacks Orange - New scenes to be written/expanded Flags - Chapter breaks Holy awesome.  I am a month away from a submission-worthy manuscript.  I am as clinically insane as I am thrilled right now.

This is what You Destroyed Everything, my first novel, looks like strung up, dissected, picked apart, and restructured on my bedroom wall.  And this is also what the single most amazing thing that could have ever happened to my book looks like.

Blue - Linear present storyline
Red - Existing flashback chapters
Blue with red lines - Linear present with reference to past
Green - New placement of flashbacks
Orange - New scenes to be written/expanded
Flags - Chapter breaks

Holy awesome.  I am a month away from a submission-worthy manuscript.  I am as clinically insane as I am thrilled right now.

Thursday, February 18th 2010 12:26am