I’m
halfway through draft 4 of The Gift. While
working on this draft I realised that I was missing some scene setting for
example, I could clearly see Villa Rosario in my mind and I knew this was the
home of the Garcia family, but I hadn’t described it for the reader. I managed to find some photos of the places I
had imagined to help me set the scene. Rather
than have a description of all the characters on a word document I have drawn a
plan for each main character on an A3 sheet of paper with their physical description
and the important events/people in their life. I’ve
found this has been a great help, especially with the tying up of dates. It is amazing what one spots when doing a
re-draft for example the colour of one of my character’s eyes seems to have
changed from blue to brown! I am wondering if I will ever feel this will be ready!