The Glory Star Project

NEW DECISIONS

I've gone through this story just a little bit differently than I normally would in that I hadn't done all the worldbuilding up front because I wanted to get going on the thing. As I look back on the decisions made originally I think there are some things I would keep but others that I could change.

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Genre

Obviously still a science fiction romance space opera story with alternating POV between Glory and Xav. Well established that Captain Richards lost his assistant when he decided to marry and he then hired Glory to take his place. Glory's overbearing parents surprise her by not being angry that she took a job that meant leaving her home, and off she went to see the worlds. Right now, we've got her and Richards waiting near a wormhole and getting the four Nautilus ships ready to travel to the Gamlin Quadrant, where the team spends most of their time. Once they reach the other side and wake from the cryotanks, the real story will begin.

Flavor

The story is in the past tense, with an adventurous and playful tone sprinkled with a few places that get really intense in other ways, such as when she witnesses the devastation on one of the worlds and insists on trying to help.

Reach

At this point I'm not sure I'll make this into a series. I could just as easily end with a medical exam telling them they will have a daughter and her realizing she won't wish to stay on Gamlin Prime for five years, meaning that she would have to either remain awake all the time to care for the baby who wouldn't be allowed in cryo, or she would have to let the mechanoids take care of her during her down time, and she decides to let the mechanoids help during the longer times but do it herself if the cryo would be only a few months. When their daughter would reach five she could start doing cryo as well, but not until. Originally, I had thought that a sequel to Glory Star would be when Xav agrees to take a position as administrator on a newly colonized world. I have not ruled out the idea, but if I do I'll want it to be when their daughter is at least twelve, but jump into the story when she's more like sixteen and have it be about her and whoever she's going to fall in love with. It's too far outside this story's scope so I'm not going to worry about it right here. It may or may not be written, and doesn't need to be focused on now.

Plan of Attack

I decided to leave this in here since it's still useful whether you read the archive or not.

Okay, so now I have a general timeline of what should be happening. In the first book, they meet, interact on the way to the outer rim, then go into a brief stasis on the way to the worm hole that will bring them to the outer rim of the Gamlin Quadrant. Once they've arrived, the story progresses to them negotiating for upgraded equipment with the main space station for all the ships and planets under his command. Eventually, they crash and all that, and their relationship progresses through more events to a point at which they realize they are in love and decide to marry (and probably become pregnant even if the child's gender isn't known until book two...)

A book usually needs about 50k+ words, so to get them, you next need to decide the general length of your chapters and how many you will need to accomplish those numbers. Here are a few options:

Assuming a desire for a 50k book:
20 chapters of 2500 words
25 chapters of 2000 words
30 chapters of 1667 words
35 chapters of 1429 words
40 chapters of 1250 words

As a beginning author, you might be tempted to use 40 chapters because your scenes do not have to be as long, allowing you to break them up more easily. However, in a book of this type, I would be more inclined to make each chapter have more words so I don't have to come up with so many scenes.

A lot of times in the industry, if you are writing for others or even just trying to conform to what sells, you need to determine ahead of time how many sex scenes there are and what heat level they will be. "Steamy" means it is likely that you will have three or four, maybe even more sexual encounters in the story, but it should not be the main thrust of your plot.

It is usually frowned on to place the sex at the very beginning, since you need to build up some tension first, so in a 50k, place the first scene at roughly 12-15000 words, and then try to let the other scenes fall into place naturally, and make sure the story progresses into the bargain.

For the sake of having a good example, I'm going to set this book with 30 chapters, and tentatively four sex scenes but with license to add one if I feel like it. It's my own story, so I can do that. However, if you are writing for another person, you will have to comply with their desires.

In the next file I originally created a story skeleton, but as with this one I'll want to rework that a little. Below you can see both of them as desired. I like to make skeletons rather than outlines because my outlines tend to keep changing so often as I go along, so for me these make it easier to develop 30 to 35 scenes without having to keep rewriting my entire outline a bunch of times.

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