Quick process question for you, Shawn...as you dig into this first chapter, have you already put some thought into identifying all the necessary setups/themes/hooks that are required for this first act? Is the goal to include those necessary details in this round of revisions so that by the end you'll have a complete "working" story with as many filled plot holes as possible?
I ask because I feel like my first acts are always so thin after finishing a first draft...mostly because I don't yet know how the story is going to progress or what setups will be necessary until I've actually completed the draft. How have you approached trying to fill this first act with the necessary setups? Do you edit as you go on the first draft? Are you adding them now? Are you still in discovery mode?
Quick process question for you, Shawn...as you dig into this first chapter, have you already put some thought into identifying all the necessary setups/themes/hooks that are required for this first act? Is the goal to include those necessary details in this round of revisions so that by the end you'll have a complete "working" story with as many filled plot holes as possible?
I ask because I feel like my first acts are always so thin after finishing a first draft...mostly because I don't yet know how the story is going to progress or what setups will be necessary until I've actually completed the draft. How have you approached trying to fill this first act with the necessary setups? Do you edit as you go on the first draft? Are you adding them now? Are you still in discovery mode?
Hope that question makes sense! :)