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Accountability, author's timecard, word count written, feeling lonely out there?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Kali on September 09, 2010, 03:13:18 AM ---I envy you your ability to consistently churn out wordcounts like that.
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This isn't something I would claim as "consistent"; this is "they didn't tell me until I signed the contract that they didn't want me to start the new job until ten days later than they had previously said, and I've spent all summer working on something else for good reasons when this story was bubbling under and now it's all getting released at once." When I know I am going to get ten days' holidays it tends to fill with a wider variety of things, usually involving Seeing My People, but that much time at once with nothing allotted to it has not happened to me since I was fifteen; the current deathmarch is very much in the way of an experiment, and while it is continuing productive, the numbers have definitely fallen off since Saturday.
Normally I'm good for a few thousand words in one weekly session, maybe two when things are going well.
Kali:
I choose to see you as an unstoppable force of wordcounts, neuro. Leave me with my illusions!
As of today, I'm officially at 76,278 words. Someone who might have died has been spared, which tells me who's going to get the axe in the upcoming scene. Now I just have to figure out what to do with Risa...
Ah well, plenty of time to write more later if I feel like it! For now, I haven't eaten since a bowl of cereal this morning, and it's dinnertime. Fooooooooood!
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Kali on September 09, 2010, 09:08:49 PM ---I choose to see you as an unstoppable force of wordcounts, neuro. Leave me with my illusions!
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I have a through draft. Total of 91,000 words; 45k of which were done in the last 8 days.
I think I may just take tomorrow off.
Kali:
For you, doing NaNo would be like going on vacation. ;D I did 50k in 2 weeks and was kinda smug about that.
Kali:
With a wordcount today of 4,802 words and a total wordcount of 81,120, the draft is done, the bad guy defeated, the victory bittersweet at best and downright Pyrrhic at worst.
Tomorrow, I begin the top-to-bottom edits I know I have to make. Then I'll let it sit before I do a finesse edit to make it smooth and pretty. I also realized tonight that I wrote it in "my" format: single spaced, double spaces between paragraphs. That means that when I do the final edit, I'll also have to double space it with indents at the beginning of paragraphs and single spaces between them. Oi! Bad enough to do that on a 20k short story. Why don't these things occur to me in the first couple of pages and not the last couple?
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