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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
Paynesgrey:
5000 word storm holiday, and another 1,000 tonight. Although tonight's stuff is a scene I haven't quite figured out how to work into the book.
THE_ANGRY_GAMER:
Doing NaNo - cheating a little, as I hit it running, intending to add 50,000 to my count. Midway through my second day (planning to do 2,000 a day, then if I fall a little behind, it's not the end of the world), and I'm at 8,480.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
4kwords so far today, taking a break for dinner.
Paynesgrey:
Not doing the NaNoWriMo bit myself, I can work at a decent pace, but I can't get anywhere setting numerical goals/deadlines for myself beyond the basic "gotta average a minimum of 500 words a night." Same reason I couldn't do illustration for work other than my own... my brain won't let me say "I'm going to paint a five." I have to trick it and cajole it into doing what I want it to sometimes. Like the 500 word average that works for making me average well over 500 words a night. Don't do it every night, but when I sit down I'll usually do a bare minimum of 1000 anyway. Didn't write last night, or the night before? Ok, better open the laptop while I watch a movie... and I end up pausing the movie to peck out a hundred words... and then pause it again.. and again... and realized a few hours later that the computer's powered down while I knocked out 1500 words. Which gets me to a scene that I'm excited about and take off on the next day when I get home from work...
Annoying darn thing, I have to give myself flexibility, which forces me to do what I can't force myself to do.
Does that make any sense?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
And that was about a 6500-word day. A whole new chapter, and a few bits and bobs added in to earlier chapters, of TIWTBWO #3, including one incidental detail that I've been wanting to get in since I basically had to cut a couple of chapters off the beginning of #2 for pacing reasons. On the whole, pleasing. The next three chapters or so may get some chopping and changing, but after that we have a change of direction and it should be plainer sailing. (This is not a book with one Big Middle so much as it is a book with a major thing a third of the way in and another two-thirds of the way in; I am looking forward to being past the former.)
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