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Accountability, author's timecard, word count written, feeling lonely out there?
meg_evonne:
YA revision done. Perfect 61959 word count. Will print 5 copies and mail one off to editor who gracously offered to read. Anyone want to see it? Now my reward is to read mockingjay... sees ya later.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
45,000 words. 2400 of the new ones tonight are completely new scene and going some way to ameliorate my frets about the thing being too short. The other 1600 are run up to a really hard bit which I now need to figure out how to do. The non-human characters have to be alien enough.
I have also come up with a cunning plan to disguise how my books always need an epilogue; which is to do it from the same POV as the rest of the book, and label it "chapter 24" rather than "epilogue".
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
1800 more words tonight, that being 400 to prop up the previous chapter and 400 to finish the current one. Which, i hope takes me through the really hard scene and into the nice rewarding one where I get two people I have just come through the difficult bit having a nice relieved semi-friendly but very loud argument about which of them was more of an idiot to get into the situation in the first place, they also figure out some cool stuff, and then they walk straight into one of the biggest twists in the plot.
Kali:
I'm trying for 2k words a day, mostly 'cause I really want this story wrapped up before November when I will again participate in NaNoWriMo. Only this year, I'm gonna try to use the Snowflake method to do a bit more outlining, hoping to produce something that won't require a massive re-write. I think out of 50k, I kept around 18k of the previous story. The rest has been chucked in the trash. I'm now back up to 66k. I'd like to get some inspiration and have a few of those 10k days so I can have the month of October to Snowflake the next novel.
The added big scene is now written, though it had to be done twice. I realized partway through that by adding a character I really loved, I was actually weakening the impact of the more active character in the scene. So, goodbye Kassidy. Some other time, you psycho. Then was the problem of how to get Rachel out of it without making her look weak but still having Ethan in on the rescue. Accomplished, but the means will require revisiting later when I've got some distance.
Today's 2k (or more) will shift focus to the rescue and possibly the plot twist therein.
meg_evonne:
I'm always amazed when people manage to complete NaMo (am I right on the nickname for it?) and I know you've done it several times. Best wishes on finishing your current project and setting up the next!
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