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Word Count!
Blaze:
;) But you aren't letting me count any of my forum posts.... and actually my word count only includes stuff I would actually show to anyone.
I'll bet I have deleted more words (formed into sentences and paragraphs) than most people! LOL
meg_evonne:
Thank you Rob, I really needed to pat myself on the back. These don't count endless re-writes and editing, but the final work at this point.
62501 YA Book I completed manuscript nine queries sent, 1 full read, 1 50 page request, and negs w/one out
59276 YA Book II major re-write needed of the last eight and I have a week until class starts... arghh! Where I plan to start Book III if everyone thinks I should keep going with it or start something entirely different. I hope they say the concept is great and keep going!
27141 Adult paranormal (stress reliever) that I jokingly call Demon Porn has gone from short story to four future novellas for 80,000 total. I fiddle with it when I need a break from YA and want to write longer sentences and some words that are longer than nine letters LOL!
That's a whopping 148918 and I'll take great pride in that.
(And no, you can't read my Demon Porn!)
RobJN:
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That's a whopping 148918 and I'll take great pride in that.
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W00t!
Congratulations, meg, and EVERYONE who's replied in the thread. I counted unreleased sections in Green-5, but didn't count the files I keep for each work which I call the "Cutting Room Floor." Partial ideas, false starts, places where a scene branches, and then the "unused" portions thereof.... I hang on to most of it.
Now, if I could just have a nickel for every time I hit the "delete" key.... (no crusty ol' black ones possessed by demons, please!)
Speaking of which....
--- Quote ---(And no, you can't read my Demon Porn!)
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I never get to have any fun! :P
Here's to another year full of word after word, page after page, whether for fun or for future publication. (wait, are those two things mutually exclusive...?)
meg_evonne:
Thank you again Rob. I did really need to do this.
--- Quote from: RobJN on January 05, 2010, 02:38:07 AM ---Now, if I could just have a nickel for every time I hit the "delete" key.... (no crusty ol' black ones possessed by demons, please!)
Speaking of which....
I never get to have any fun! :P
Here's to another year full of word after word, page after page, whether for fun or for future publication. (wait, are those two things mutually exclusive...?)
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Absolutely and wait! OMG NO! You press the delete button???? I never, never delete. Each WiP has a folder I name Past edits. Everything goes into that.
According to The Fiction Writer's Workshop by Novakovich, F Scott Fitzgerald says there are two types of writers putter-inners or taker-outers. I do both and fall into a third catagory probably created by the era of the word processing in that I'm a "took it out and have to find it again to use in another spotter" type. LOL
Blaze:
OMG I delete with extreme prejudice.
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