Novels are large and frustating projects to wrestle with.
John Braine, in his how to write book called, appropriately enough, How to Write A Novel uses a method that might fit your situation. Namely he writes an exploratory draft, then works out what the story is really about and produces an sysnopsis/outline, then he re-writes the novel according to the outline because by then he knows what the important scenes really were.
Though on thinking about what you've said above, perhaps all the large scale stuff is merely background and the real story is small scale?
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Reading, writing, plant photography, and the small details of my life, with digressions into science and computing.
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Date: 2008-09-10 12:45 pm (UTC)John Braine, in his how to write book called, appropriately enough, How to Write A Novel uses a method that might fit your situation. Namely he writes an exploratory draft, then works out what the story is really about and produces an sysnopsis/outline, then he re-writes the novel according to the outline because by then he knows what the important scenes really were.
Though on thinking about what you've said above, perhaps all the large scale stuff is merely background and the real story is small scale?