I finally finished my "where the heck am I?" read through of book one of my trilogy this morning.

I had started this read through of the book mind mapping the details as I went. This isn't so much about the plot as the invented minutiae of the world: plant species, animal species, place names, social customs, and so on. However, I stopped doing the mapping after four chapters, partly because it was very distracting but mostly because I was mapping in a large sketch book which was just too unwieldy to use in bed while reading a loosely bound manuscript.

The mind mapping still needs to happen since otherwise I will have no sense of continuity in the world.

But it is still an interesting world.

The thing that's missing in the plot is a true crisis: there is one manufactured by the religious leaders, but there is little internal justification for the actions of one of the MCs and that bothers me.

There is, in other words, more to be done here.

But that's OK. That's what editing and rewriting is about.

That's five minutes for now, though.

Posted by Dunx at March 10, 2009 01:12 PM