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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
Madd:
I wrote 5k words today, fully editted and ready for review!
....too bad it was all Standard Operating Procedures :(
Paynesgrey:
Just 1100 words today, but they were a breakthrough on a block that's been holding me up for a week or so, having with some dialogue that just didn't want to flow naturally. It was one of those deals where I just couldn't get things to cover Topic A and then naturally flow to Topic B, but finally got things flowing just right. I'll have to go back and polish some things to keep them in the character's "voice", but that's a simple matter comparatively speaking. And now I can move on with the scenes already written in my head that were waiting on this one conversation to take everything to them.
cenwolfgirl:
*wimpers* a good day for me is when i get to open the document due to school mostly
and then i come here and read stuff like this it makes me want to cry :'(
well done you two hopfuly i will get some more done soon but now back to maths :'( (thats worse)
Paynesgrey:
--- Quote from: cenwolfgirl on April 19, 2012, 03:57:09 PM ---*wimpers* a good day for me is when i get to open the document due to school mostly
and then i come here and read stuff like this it makes me want to cry :'(
well done you two hopfuly i will get some more done soon but now back to maths :'( (thats worse)
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Don't think in terms of numbers of words, everyone has a different writing style and pace. My time actually spent typing comes in spurts. I'll spend a week or three just replaying scenes, coming up with the odd phrase or image, and spend an evening or two hammering it out, so it's not like I'll sit down and pull 2 or three thousand words out of my brain at once. They've been up there fermenting for a while. ;)
Now, if I could sit down and write 2 or three thousand words every night, then I'd be a real handful.
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: Paynesgrey on April 19, 2012, 11:06:46 PM ---Don't think in terms of numbers of words, everyone has a different writing style and pace. My time actually spent typing comes in spurts. I'll spend a week or three just replaying scenes, coming up with the odd phrase or image, and spend an evening or two hammering it out, so it's not like I'll sit down and pull 2 or three thousand words out of my brain at once. They've been up there fermenting for a while. ;)
Now, if I could sit down and write 2 or three thousand words every night, then I'd be a real handful.
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Triumphant Napoleon! (A bit of a premature pete moment, as I still have to revise the opening chapter to more fully sink in the hook for all you little fishes) I had about 20 paragraphs of preamble before diving into the dialogue/action, it might be too long.
But other than that Admiral Who is coming in at a cool 125-126K fully edited and ready to rumble. Baring unforseen difficulties it should be available in an Amazon near you probably next week sometime. Fingers crossed and knock on wood.
Also decided the last 18K of my second potential cut off point did better as a free excerpt of book 2 put in the back of Admiral Who to get you to want to read the next book. Plus I managed to nail in part of the overarching series plot line that I was struggling with finding the right place to insert.
On the sequel front, I'm up to 92K under the previous counting system but with the addition of this 18k that I wasn't sure which book to fit in. (The original question was did I want the knock down drag out battle scene in the end of Admiral Who or the beginning of Admiral's Gambit? Well that's been decided.) The new count official count for the first draft of the sequal will is 110K.
Still got another 15k+ to before I can possibly call the 2nd book finished though. But I'm feeling pumped. Got to go get a new job so that's going to seriously cut into the writing time and motivation but I'm determined not to let anything ruin this awesome feeling.
Have a good one guys and remember to keep plugging away no matter what.
And don't ever let anyone get you done,
The Deposed King
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