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Accountability, author's timecard, word count written, feeling lonely out there?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Back from trip and recovered (mostly) from illness acquired on trip. 4000 words last night. We have broken 50k. About this, we are cheering.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
3,000 more words last night, counting some I had cut earlier that now came back into play.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Another chapter done, 56 kwords and counting.
Enjorous:
Reworked two short stories after having them beta'd not productive as far as my novel goes but infinitely useful in correcting a few mistakes that I seem to constantly make.
meg_evonne:
Let's see, recapping:
* New YA chosen - check
* General Plot Line set up - check
* Main Characters roughly defined
* Sub Characters roughly defined
* Location - set
* Over 20 hours of hard research (for starters) - check
* Sub plots tentatively set up, not yet correlated into the storyline
* Main conflict points scenes defined at Intro & 1/4 & 1/2 & 3/4s & 9/10ths for main plot only
* 8 hours of research finding 3/4s of the character names
* at least 20 hours on world building and establishing the rules and pressure points apply to main characters
* main character excel sheets on their development and conflicts, where they are at the key points, how they grow (generally)
* 5000 words written during the above time to make sure I like the characters and that I'm willing to begin a relationship
* another three scenes written in my head, awaiting for me to intertwine the subplots into them before I write them.
* yet more research hours & videos of locations, costume research, science background research... (still tons to do)
And I'm 99% committed to my story, the characters, and we have lift off. I'm moving on to the big board with colored post it notes with that giant plot arc...
Then it is time to start writing pages with a drive to complete the first draft. All that pre-work is exhausting, but I definitely know that I have something not only that I'll love, but that might be marketable (maybe) and worthy of my time--and worthy of a reader's time. I think I discarded about 20 plus story ideas to settle on this, but that doesn't count those in the hopper that I culled through...
As my craft skills grow, my tolerance for side paths that lead in circles or in wrong directions shrinks to miniscule limits.
Not that, that is necessarily good. But for now, this is working for me...
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