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Accountability, author's timecard, word count written, feeling lonely out there?
KevinEvans:
We found that we had nine concurrent projects under weigh. Seven of them on short turnaround time tables. In the last two weeks we have reduced the total to six on the list, but we may end up with two more added if our proposals are accepted... Sigh some times it seems like shoveling sand out of a hole.
Regards,
Kevin
meg_evonne:
Kevin, I love your 'under weigh' rather than 'under way' So much more appropriate image in my head of the weight of pressing projects. Best wishes on them.
Way to go neurovore!
I'm like the muse butterfly at the moment, unable to settle and commit. Part of it is letting my last big project go. When something comes up to market it, I lose my concentration on the new work. I've three started projects--my first picture book, a middle grade book, and a dark apocalyptic YA. Still the old work calls me, distracts me, and generally is like a toddler that won't go play with the other kids. Keeping that business side of my mind and that work AWAY from my creative writing side is turning out to be a huge struggle that I never saw coming.
I admire you and your wife Kevin for being able to keep so many things in the fire at once.
LizW65:
Let's see...the big mystery novel comes in at 119,000 words, give or take a few, and I'm ready to start querying agents--quite a bit more research still to do in that department. Meanwhile, the sequel to same is struggling along at the 77,000 word mark, about 1/2 written and needing major revision. Oh, yeah, and real life keeps intruding, so I've done very little writing lately, except for the nineteenth century diary of a distant ancestress I've been transcribing for eventual (self) publication. Her prose style is...dry, to say the least. ;)
RodimusGT:
I don't even know how many words I'm typing out a day. I'm not even typing every day. I know a lot of people say when you have problems consistantly writing your story then maybe it's not the best you can come up with. For me this isn't true. I actually just find it hard to sit down and write. Ideas and my imagination aren't a problem I have pretty much 6 different genre's of novels lined up to work on. It's just doing the actual work. Being a guy who grew up watching tv and playing video games it gets tough sitting in front of a blank screen and trying to type out a literary story. So far I think I'm doing pretty well though. I've chosen the story to focus on and I've written five chapters so far! Gotta keep chugging!
meg_evonne:
Oh man. I can't believe the amount of head time this new work is taking. I haven't touched the actual key board except for scene descriptions, sound bites, character ideas, etc. It hasn't helped that my laptop was taken over by a two year old so she could watch something called "Super Why". Nah, I'm not complaining, but my hand is cramping up as a result. They left today. Tomorrow, I actually stack more words on page. I've stored up close to a third of the book. Now it's race to get it down before it slips out of my blasted mind.
Wish me well. AND best wishes to all of you on your writing!
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