Just finished plotting out chapters 13, 14, and 15. Figured out part of the problem with the messy middle is too much reacting and not enough trying. End is a whole bunch of try-fail with hopefully a very resonating try-succeed. I’m so excited about this novel I can barely stand it. Turns out last week’s […]
I don’t know how much progress I’ve made this week. I think I’ve done 9000 words. We’re flying out today, and I always write in airports, so I think I’ll be close. I haven’t typed any of it yet, which is one of the reasons why I’m uncertain of the word count. This would be
Only wrote 1000 words tonight. Had too many things to do to get ready for the con. This leaves 6000 words to write during a con. *sigh* It’s okay if I don’t get it all done. I’d like to. But I’m not going to kill myself doing it. I’ve already accomplished so much. I want
I wrote 2000 words tonight. Which means 3000, not 4000, words so far for the week. I’m hoping I’ll get 2000 done tomorrow, so I can type up at least some of it on the plane. It was difficult to start, tonight. My heart hurt, between jaylake‘s news, and a friend who’s been diagnosed as
After I finished writing yesterday, I figured out that one scene that I’d summarized in a paragraph really needed to be written out — about 1200 words. Wrote that tonight. So here’s the official word count. I’m not where I wanted to be — wanted to write the first 2000 words of chapter eleven tonight.
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The good news tonight was that typing up chapter ten, 2800 words turned into 3500. Which means the last 1000 words I wrote up, which I did not want to put into chapter ten, goes in as the first scene of chapter eleven, which is where I wanted it to fall. Here’s the official word
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–I’m currently at 35,965 words. This means I only have another 4000 to go for this weekend. I need to write chapter ten, basically. I need to plot out chapter ten first, however. Always helps if I have a clue about what I’m supposed to be writing. –While outlining chapter nine, I realized that the
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I knew that the only way I’d get in my writing today was to write both at noon, then after work. So I did 500 words at noon, about 1000 later, before going out to eat dinner with a friend. I haven’t typed up everything I’ve written — I have at least another 500+ words,
Tonight I spent some time plotting. I was unsatisfied with that. I found scenes I needed to write but this book still feels short so far. Either the scenes I have picked will turn out to be longer than planned, or I’ll end up with additional before and after scenes, tagged onto the major ones
Though I had a lot to write this weekend, it felt really good. I ended up doing more than I’d planned, and it just flowed again. I’m very please. But now I really need to do more plotting. Stupid messy center of the book. Here’s the official word count: 29,913 / 60,000 The word count