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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
cenwolfgirl:
i am avoiding work and editing by working on new project
so i am doing school work to day to make up for it
165 so far
okay i am procrastinating
trboturtle:
Well, I cracked the NaNoWriNo! 53,000 words and counting!
;D
Craig
Paynesgrey:
Broke off a chunk of my narrative that just seems to make a lump in the story's flow. That, and I already head one big flashback, don't want to overdo those. So I rolled it around in my head for a week, and now I'm working it into a short story that's fine as a stand-alone, and will serve as a sample/advertising of the actual book series should the story actually get picked up.
(I've got a nice, bare wall that I'm reserving for my coming rejection notices.) ;)
Moral of the story: Never throw anything away, be it a scene, a spot of dialogue, whatever. Put it off to the side, you may find a use for it in other works.
Snowleopard:
I hear that one writer actually papered a small bathroom with their rejection notices. ???
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Kicked the chapter I was working on repeatedly, in ways which involved taking about 500 words out and then putting about 1200 new words in, and then got 2000 words into the next one, which was much smoother sailing.
This is the first major turning point, just short of a third of the way in, which is meant to be an abrupt and surprising shift from "this is the major and serious threat we are dealing with" to "this problem has been basically solved, all that's left is tidying up loose ends", and my protagonist coping with the perspective change, and adjusting to her duty lining up with what she actually wants to do in terms of exploring the much bigger and more interesting thing that showed up while engaging with that immediate threat, rather than requiring her to deal with the immediate threat.
I worry most about the pacing, and I am not going to be able to tell, there, until I have the whole thing written. The point of the book up to now is to deal with the immediate threat while laying groundwork for the larger-scale issue and introducing a bunch of characters and their interactions for the remainder of the story. Chapter and a half or so more prep, a chapter or two of stuff happening on the journey, and then we're two thousand lightyears from home and can get to the really fun stuff.
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