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Accountability, author's timecard, word count written, feeling lonely out there?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Did not fix chapter 1, realised instead that I needed to take a bit from chapter 2 and a goodly chunk from chapter 3 and make an all new chapter between existing chapters 2 and 3 and have done so. Lo! it is Philosophical and Ranty and will I hope bring into somewhat clearer focus which bits of this character are meant to be likable and which not. (It's a real pain when you write a first-person narrator with certain character flaws who uses charm to get around some of them in some cases and she charms readers into thinking they're not meant to be flaws at all, or that you the author don't think they are flaws and are yourself somewhat less wonderful a person than is in fact the case.)
Also wrote a snippet of the beginning of the next chapter, which is now 6, because on rereading 5 someone had to realise that was suspiciously easy really straight the heck away. Running total just over 16kwords. Go me.
meg_evonne:
Sticking my head in. I've been mega-busy... see my thread if you're interested in reading my YA manuscript... chewing my nails.
KevinEvans:
Still slogging through NaNo...
Bright spot, we both received our SFWA active memberships last week, it took six sales as we write as co writers (Grin))
Regards,
Kevin
Starbeam:
Finished my rough draft read through on Thursday night. Tried to get into rewrites then, but it was just not coming out right. Set it aside and started yesterday, and seems to be moving a bit better now.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Such writing time as I have had the past fortnight has been amputating bits that do not work. Rather many of them.
I am now moving forward again, but I am still 500 words short of the last time I posted. There was a bit in there when I thought the whole damned thing was going to collapse into a haiku.
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