I've Proposed!
Friday, February 5, 2010 
No, not that way. Sheesh, I'm already married.
But I did spend the past six weeks hunkered down, drafting a 30-page narrative proposal for the historical novel I'm about to start writing. And I'm pleased to report that it's good, really good.
My agent had asked me to put the narrative proposal together to help sell my story collection, potentially as part of a two-book deal. But the whole process has turned out to be incredibly useful to me as a writer too--it's forced me to map out the entire book chapter by chapter. Plot and characterization kinks that might otherwise have bogged me down mid-way through the book have largely been worked out already. Hoping this will cut down on my writing time by about ten years.
So today I officially begin. And now that I've got my new Macbook Pro, I'm toying with the idea of using Scrivener for managing the novel. Any recommendations for or against?