the weekend novelist - weekends 5-6

i am just plowing ahead.  the exercises are thrilling, but these preliminary planning chapters threaten to take the wind out of my sails and then i will never actually write the novel.  i already have the thing pretty well formulated, so i'm plowing ahead.

spinning your novel down the page.

1. breathing exercises (?!)
2. writing down the page - this is basically brainstorming in poetry form.  i can rock this.  you never let a line reach the other side of the page and you don't stop to think or correct.  just "writing hot" (barf).
3. rest
4. read what you wrote down the page
5... (this is where i lost interest) define the time span (?)
6. chronological chart (?)

i ended up just writing-my-opening-chapter-down-the-page.  it's looking very poetic.