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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
drewavera:
knocked out a page and a half yesterday, i didnt count the words, i like to wait till the chapter is over and i type it, make microsoft do the work for me...
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
I am most pleased to figure out that in an upcoming conversation in TIWTBTWO, when a physicist is having a grumble about the fact that unless he comes up with a cool name for the major plot-driving anomalous thing he has discovered, it will be named after him, and all the cool names from mythology and Shakespeare and so on are already taken, my protagonist will, in enthusing about that society as a whole honouring whatever discoverers first call things, get to mention the example of a terrestrial planet found in the (very narrow) habitable zone around a red dwarf star that's part of a double system with a much larger star, which has formally been named Surprise. Because it works at the level that such a planet would be a surprise, and since my story doesn't actually go there, at least in this book or any of the ones I have subsequently plotted out, I can totally reserve the option of when, if at all, to mention that its larger moon is called Jack and the smaller Stephen. (Two sizable moons and being close in to its sun make for really quite complicated tides; it would be one heck of a place to go sailing.)
It's a cute literary reference if the reader gets it. It's a plausible literary reference for the sort of person who becomes a starship captain to think is cool, so it works in-universe. And if the reader does not recognise the allusion, it works as the kind of names that people might randomly give moons if they were stuck for inspiration so it's totally transparent rather than obtrusive in a Here Is A Reference You Are Not Getting sort of way.
drewavera:
Typed up chapter 8 (1600 ish words) and started chapter 9
meg_evonne:
How neat to see how productive everyone has been. I'm finally taking a moment to be a bit social before rolling up the sleeves and writing again tonight.
Since last we spoke, I completed an adult 15000 word treatise (plus 4000 word glossary as well) for a regional art/science competition. I was very pleased with the result and it was well received. I've written a young adult nonfiction book proposal based on it that I'll take to a writer's workshop the end of Oct. I will also be reading from my last manuscript and having a crit with an agent or editor at the same conference.
As to my current work in progress--slow, but it's rolling nicely with a great deal of depth and subplots wrapping nicely. I've managed so much control that when I write the scenes they are far more advanced than anything I've written before on a first draft. So it is slow, but extremely satisfying.
Best writing all!
Paynesgrey:
A decent days work has me up to 54.5K today, and I've some good stuff all ready to be converted from brain-goo to good, clean electrons.
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