Category: Breaking Free (formerly Escaping Well)
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Breaking Free – Chapter Four
Em moves to Sydney. There’s a sense of expectation. This is the calm before the storm.
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Breaking Free – Chapter Three
Em announces she is leaving tomorrow and going to university. She buys her own car and says an awkward goodbye.
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Breaking Free – Chapters One and Two
Seventeen year old Em works in a takeaway shop and is dominated by an angry mother.
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Sleeping in her car, the attic room (Smoothing out the plot kinks)
I wove the plot together in the last few days and it works well, but it’s not a 10/10. Yet. There are kinks at the 3/4 mark where I know I’m forcing the plot instead of letting it play out. It’s too quick. It needs more space. Consequently, I’ve let the plot outline sit for…
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Breaking Free – Supporting Character Sketches
24 March – I’ve changed the working title from “Escaping Well” to “Breaking Free.” Simple plot, complex characters. That’s what we’re going for. I’d love to hear your comments: Which character is more fun? Who do you like more? These two characters have a significant function in the story, but they don’t have a strong…
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Breaking Free – Another go at the plot
24 March – I’ve changed the working title of this project from Escaping Well to Breaking Free. I find that to put a story together, I keep mowing over the plot, writing and rewriting to get it to sit nicely. In the following document, I’m writing from memory, from the heart. I’m not cutting and…
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Breaking Free – Conversation with ChatGPT
This is a planning document, helping me clarify my thoughts around the three main threads in the upcoming novel, Escaping Well. I had a conversation with ChatGPT, and was very pleased at the insights it spat out. It is not creating any storyline, but it is certainly giving positive feedback, which made me feel good…
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Breaking Free – Novel Concept.
Short synopsis and possible opener to “Escaping Well,” a companion novel to “Holding On.”
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