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Wordcount!
Wolfeyes:
Currently my babe is in the middle of chapter 7, first draft (with things to add), and is on 54, 390 words (...this is going to be a looooooong book at this rate...)
prime_spirit:
I'm going to be very honest and say <100 :(
I'm still working on background stories, history, societies, etc, and almost all of it from scratch. The thing about making your own world is that I won't have to look up too much background material to make it realistic. The downside is that it takes a really long time to get all these ideas into an accurate timeline. Which there were more hours in a day...
Maiafay:
Hmmm longest was over 100,000 words, and my current is 88,900. I could use some trimming in the 88 one, but not until it's finished.
TigerKat24:
Currently, Confidence is about 52,000, give or take a couple hundred words. However, it's been at about 52,000 since December 5th. Make the writer's block stop...
Valkyrina:
--- Quote from: TigerKat24 on February 26, 2007, 08:26:47 AM ---Make the writer's block stop...
--- End quote ---
I prescribe one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Writers-Block-Ideas-Jump-Start-Imagination/dp/0762409487/sr=8-1/qid=1172482083/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7920969-0594312?ie=UTF8&s=books
A lot of sleep and lots of fruit in your diet.
See if that helps.
Unless you're writing about a unhealthy, insomniac who can't write and you're trying to get into their head.
;)
Seriously though, this book is awesome.
I read a few pages, went to sleep and a few days later my imagination *pinged* microwave style and came back with a "look what I found" kinda story.
Every author on this site needs at least one of these by their beds.
...
... Except Jim, 2 reasons: 1) he's already got an awesome character and we love Harry to bits. 2) the book gives you lots of little mental tributaries to go down, little stories that if you're used to writing one character's life story, may make you shelf that character for a while (been a while since my Valkyrie had much to say) and we'd HATE for Harry to get shelved.
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