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KevinEvans:
Well the current project is a war game, miniatures, set in the 1632 universe.
I am calling it Pistols, Pikes, and Propellers? Primarily, research has been most important, with only as much writing as needed to lock down the rules set. Another day or two, and I can get the game on paper.
Nano can be great fun, the concept of blowing right through a story, and watching a visible progress chart, can be quite liberating. Last years novel(s) (we wrote two) have already been submitted, and this year’s novels have been plotted, and are waiting November. We attend LosCon so we have the additional motivation of being done before the con to drive us.
Regards,
Kevin
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Two more chapters. 68kwords.
Everything is under control. ("It's my heart. It's like an alligator." 4 points for the reference.)
Kali:
Just over 2k words tonight, for a total of just over 70k words in the story. A lot of complications mean a complex bit of character-juggling before they can advance to the next plot point, another rescue scene. This, I have the feeling, will indeed be the final battle sequence. Like neuro, I'm no longer nervous about the story's length. I wanted at least 80k, preferably somewhere between 90k and 100k. I'll make 80 without breaking a sweat, though 90 might be optimistic for this draft.
Of course, as soon as I finish, I have to start the top-to-bottom edits. I have a file with a list of things to sweep for. I have to make sure I'm acknowledging past injuries, for example. One character has a particularly bad hand injury, and I have to make sure I mention it when appropriate. I also want to change one character's speech patterns just a little to make sure he doesn't sound like everyone else. And then there's a lot of little things to write that will polish up the C-plot, bringing it to B-plot status. Some foreshadowing, some hints of something hinky going on. I'll have to find plot-appropriate points to insert those and then smooth the transitions down so it's seamless.
Maybe I'll make 90k after all. ;)
But first, finishing this draft.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
75kwords, and I realise I have one more chapter needing in than I thought I had. Maybe two. So we are looking at probably 85-90kwords in total. Low eighties I can live with in a first draft.
It's annoying when you realise, when you get to the bit where "oh, thing X turns out not to be that way after all" that thing X is so obvious and so taken for granted by everyone that you have not mentioned it since you first set it up, and you may actually have edited that bit of set-up out a couple of weeks ago while fixing for something else entirely.
It is extremely damned annoying when your writing laptop keels over suddenly with a memory problem, and all you can find online suggests that nobody has fixed this particular sort of problem in this particular sort of laptop for twelve years. Writing fiction on a desktop sucks, because it feels like work.
meg_evonne:
Computer woes suck. I've got title woes....
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