DarkDawn Plot Outline, Beginning

I’m wondering when I’m going to find the right headspace to start a massive plot outline, which is how I start my own books anyway. I have written some novellas this year, because really, writing action exhausts me. I get paranoid from my own work. The story is being formed right now. DarkDawn is about an alien invasion that takes place inside a person’s head while she is abducted. My character is named Anna and she lives with her mother in Los Angeles. She is half white and half Mexican from her father, but she looks Mexican from her mother.

She is a friend of Esperanza, an anthropologist at the College Of Los Angeles. My DarkDawn Nanowrimo rough draft is done. I wrote that one in November years ago but I’ve forgotten when even if I just opened the file changing the date and not looking at the date I originally got it done. I start with a free write as part of my creative process this file was a part of that. My rough draft has to do more with the anthropologist not with Anna. I have to change the spelling of her name a bit. She’s a private investigator with a paranormal bent.

She studies the paranormal like Fox Mulder, who is her hero. She is not a skeptic by any means. She is a true believer, a whole-hearted believer in aliens. She is a true nerd as well. Esperanza is an anthropologist/archaeologist who works for at the College of Los Angeles. (fictional college). I had to come up with a fictional name because of what my writing teachers used to say about making sure some stuff stays fictional.

But anyway, yes, I have to work on major story background as fiction also makes money. I have to start taking my writing more seriously because it can make me significant income. Work 2 Future was a distraction from writing because I tried to work my way around my class schedule. At night I feel a gnawing guilt going, did I do enough? Hell, my knee is still injured, and I’m still trying to fix it, so like hell am I going to overdo anything to please my family in an imaginary manner.