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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
trboturtle:
As you can tell by my Sig, my seventeeth BattleCorps story was published today. My goal of 8 stories this year is one closer to reality! ;D
Craig
synthesis:
I think several people mentioned just how long it actually takes to write something and how long you mull it over in your head before you even begin. For me, it's the how many games of cards did I play while mulling over. . . :P damn distractions. :D
But, I broke page 200 yesterday. Today I cooked, though, cuz I'm very tired of Totinos and Spaghetti-Os!
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: trboturtle on April 21, 2012, 12:48:13 AM ---As you can tell by my Sig, my seventeeth BattleCorps story was published today. My goal of 8 stories this year is one closer to reality! ;D
Craig
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Way to go turboturtle!
The Deposed King
Nickeris86:
Wiped out a short and sweet four page steampunk inspired piece last night after talking with a friend about the genre.
If anyone is interested in reading it I would appreciate the feedback. Just pm me
cenwolfgirl:
--- 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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--- Quote from: The Deposed King on April 20, 2012, 01:27:49 AM ---
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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thanks you two you have made me feel a lot better
no not got any thing more written yet but i have not been near tecnolagy or pen and papper for three days but hopfuly will have made more progress by the end of the week all going to plain
oh and the amount of time i plain seens and re write them is over half the time i spend actualy on what i am writting most of the time
good luck everyone
CWG
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