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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
meg_evonne:
This dropped off and I've brought it back from the dead.
I've had a great five days of good solid production of original pages spread over two projects. Better yet? I'm charted for another two weeks of already to go new scene work.
Lord Rae:
I've been working overnights recently and despite having tons of time I've only written a few pages. I don't have to do much but I keep procrastinating. Perhaps (trying) writing at work is a bad idea. ;p
meg_evonne:
But mind-writing at work is delightful. You can write an entire scene without one word keyed.
Today I'm going for 1000 words edited and 2500 written. For me that is huge.
Darkshore:
I've currently got a lot of projects on my plate currently and not much time to do them. But I've managed to get my wip to around 20,000 words that I feel really good about. This would only be my second written novel, (with countless short stories in-between this and the first) the first got trunked for well...it was my first novel ok? Hehe.
Darwinist:
After 10 years and multiple false starts on several ideas, I finally finished my first REAL rough draft. Not those, "okay, I'll just write it down and figure it out from here" type drafts that go for 60 pages and lead nowhere but an honest to goodness actual draft of coherency. Course, I hate it. And who doesn't, after that first true thrust into madness?
At 27,000 words, it is much much too short. But that's fine with me. It is, after all, a rough draft. A "I'll just write it down and figure it out from there" draft, but with the added benefit of having an actual story nestled inside of it for once. I've revisited it, given it a once over - deciding that I like most of what is written. All I gotta do now is really delve into the exposition - which I completely ignored the first go around. Factor in a few new characters and a subplot I plan to tinker with and that should easily double my word count in the end.
Onward to the copy/pasta/brainstorming rewrite. 5000 words and counting.
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