Well, it's been another week (watching far too much Olympics lol) and so far I have received no response from the agents over my book :( ! I guess it was inevitable that things would take longer with it being the summer and so I'm staying cheerful and hopeful of a positive response! I've also been taking a week off writing - the plot needs some work and I have been mulling heavily over that! Now, back to my regularly scheduled programme!
Stage 3. The planning. Planning is a strange thing to me because the truth is that I find that I cannot complete it until I have nearly finished writing the novel. It's a costant process, inventing and arranging the scenes and solidifying up what I want to do with plot, characters and themes but one thing I always finds helps is a tip I learned off the internet. Write the scenes down on card. That way you need to hold less in your head and can arrange and rearrange to your heart's content. Scene cards rule!