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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc

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cenwolfgirl:
right them all as a list then close your eyes and choise one at randome
then if that dose not work do it again
?

yeah biology papper handed in
i rely need to have a few more hours in the day

Zuriel:
LOL!  That might work as well as anything.

Yes, please, more hours in the day!   :)

cenwolfgirl:
well it is not totaly random but it might work
just a serjestion

yes yes and less sleep needed

Paynesgrey:
Couple thousand words tonight, and a thousand or so yesterday. 

What seems to work best for me is the David Drake approach:  Plan on writing 500 words a day, barring illness or unexpected houseguests and the like, anyway.  Drake Lite I guess?

Both times, once I sat down, I realized I'd blown way past my quota and had fun doing it.

Another thing I've decided works for me is not to force myself to write the story chronologically.  Today I had a particular scene just come to life and do a song and dance number in my melon while I was doing my Cubicle Drone In Sub-section Whisky Tango Foxtrot.  It was a scene that was a couple chapters down the road, but when I got home I figured I'd get it while it was hot because the way my brain works, the intervening scenes would ripen and demand attention in their own good time.  Worked out pretty good.

Dresdenus Prime:
Wow it feels good to be posting on this topic again! This has been a crazy year so far. My wife earned her masters degree in April and now has a job which is awesomesauce. Then there's my 2 year old and 6 month old fighting over me, and finally in the last couple months when things started slowing down, I had a literary identity crisis of what the hell to write haha. But now I can safely say I'm back on track.

I spent a year writing a story and ended up with 76,000 words which is amazing, but it was a VERY rough draft, and I was very confident that it was best left alone for now. So instead I look at it as my practice piece. Maybe one day I'll return to it when I believe it can be fixed and altered to a degree where I'm satisfied with it.

But for now I've moved on to a new story, which I classify as a Dystopian Urban Fantasy (DUF!) Just under 1,000 words written yesterday. So far it has a good cast, and I believe the story will be enjoyable. I'm hoping to have the first draft finished by the end of August. We'll see! Just have to keep writing!

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