Formatting
Then, last night I hit upon a question that has stalled me. I have an Arcane series in which each novel is broken into a month. (It’s slated for 13 volumes from October to October.) Within it, I wrote chapters that are each one day. That means I have some immensely LONG chapters with multiple POVs and I don’t LIKE THAT.
So I presented the issue last night…and ChatGPT helpfully returned with a string of options.
Now, all three of these suggestions work well. I’m going to use the top one, because I wouldn’t have THOUGHT about doing it that way at any point. However the note about treating it like a planner or desk calendar stuck with me and I went on with:
When it mentioned calendar, I immediately hopped to illustrations with the day worked within the art. That’s something I can do easily that won’t depend on Atticus to get the stupid typography correct. I can do it myself and put a white outline around the text to separate it from the art. This actually SOLVES an irritation I have with Atticus, because it doesn’t have that simple feature and it makes it hard to do bold black and white headers because of it. I want to do FULL headers and make use of all the white space.
So, I’m going to make some beautiful illustrated novels.
Now my only issue is that I want to do it with EVERYTHING I’m publishing.
I realized at this point:…how do I manage to write a novel and it neatly covers ONE MONTH without me planning it that way?! BOTH Blood Diamonds and Bloodstone take place within a month each. And I’m pretty sure that Wrong Turn at the Spring is also a month, without checking my timelines. I did NOT plot it that way. It seems I just think that way and this set of novels (Blackwood Confidential) probably set me into that pace.
I’m getting the most out of my one month free of ChatGPT and now I see how it can be useful for $20 a month, but I definitely don’t need it to do the heavy lifting and analyzing I’m asking for routinely.
However, I’ve now got about 30 songs to use for promotional purposes.
Still, it’s LOUSY with facts, even with all the information. That I expected. What I didn’t expect was that it proposes things that really make me THINK and consider. Even art flubs make me consider a change I didn’t ask for that enriches what I’m doing.
TC Ross