Dragon's Egg Edit: Around 3,000 Or So

I should probably mention that I've started the editing process for The Dragon's Egg.  I've thought of some more material to increase the overall length, and hopefully give it a better plot in general.  I've already rewritten two scenes, and added another, and am starting on a rewrite/edit of the last few scenes before I make some major changes to the plot. 

Hopefully this won't take too long.  But I'll have to take as long as necessary in order to make this book as good as possible. 

I still have several scenes that need to be properly planned out, as well as several chapters worth of material that needs organizing.  After I write the scenes I do have planned I'll take a break from writing in order to get a good outlined written up.  Some people can discovery write; I'm not one of those people.  So from here on out expect to see several Sunday posts about me planning out my book.

I'll never understand people who can just sit down with a basic idea, and start writing from there.  It completely blows my mind.  For me it works a lot better if I focus on thinking up a plot first, and taking down rough, or detailed notes and worrying about actually writing the book only after I've sat down and planned everything out as much as possible.  Writing is a lot of work, and it is never easy (part of why I'm so bad at doing it regularly), but just because it's a lot of work doesn't meant we need to make it harder on ourselves.  Some people can sit down and just let the story come to them as they write, but for me it's much easier to get a good deal of inspiration written down, and then when I finally do sit down I have a detailed list of what happens. 

I still get inspiration while I write the actual book, and sometimes things go in an entirely different direction.  But when the choice is between forcing myself to stick to a rigid plan, or not writing at all because I'm overwhelmed with what I'm trying to do.  I'll probably go into more detail about my writing process at a later date, I need to respond to Nathan's pro-discovery writing, anti-planning post.  It should be interesting, especially since I've reached this point after trying to convince myself that I was a discovery writer for the longest time.  I've been going about this in a very roundabout way, but I'm slowly getting to the point where I know what I want, and how to do it.  So here's to catching up for lost time.  And given that I have a pretty decent WPM going for myself, I should be able to produce a lot per day if I write every single day, and work off a plan that I bothered to take the time to write out.