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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: o_O on January 15, 2013, 08:22:04 PM ---Ah so. I have a " Vulcans making a movie about Kirk just as he's about to find out about Khan" image here.
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Kind of sort of. Except with having to actually deal with Shatner's Kirk the age Shatner was in Undiscovered Country when everybody's expectation is that they'll be getting Chris Pine.
(The thought of Shatner and Leonard Cohen being alumni of the same high school, which is on the way between my apartment and the centre of town, still boggles me.)
(No, I'm not doing my setting's equivalent of Leonard Cohen. I know my limits.)
Lord Rae:
So I think I found out a way around the block that's been holding me up for months.... well the block plus procrastination. But I'm in the process of changing my story from Third Person limited to First person. Once I eliminated the non-main chapters and changed a few things around it is starting to fall into place. Although at 14000 words it's still daunting to go through and change. I'm about a third of the way through... but it should make writing the rest of the story much easier. I hope.
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Lord Rae on January 16, 2013, 08:02:14 AM ---So I think I found out a way around the block that's been holding me up for months.... [[[[[super!]]]]]] well the block plus procrastination. But I'm in the process of changing my story from Third Person limited to First person. [[[[ARGH the agony... Been there, done that. So frustrating. Story is written but you have do the whole damn thing over again.... My sympathies.}}}}} Once I eliminated the non-main chapters and changed a few things around it is starting to fall into place. Although at 14000 words it's still daunting to go through and change. I'm about a third of the way through... but it should make writing the rest of the story much easier. I hope. [[[Just celebrate that the work wasn't finished when you decided to switch POV. hang in there!]
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As always, I am so impressed with everyone's word count and how we manage to write our way out of corners or through road blocks. As for me, I had to reopen an old work for a conference. Actually querying etc. *sigh* My recent WiP had some issues, as in the main character wasn't changing. I'm one of those writer's who needs that. It was something major I simply overlooked like a rank amature. Wait, after reading the Hunger Games series perhaps I was influenced by her. I mean have you ever seen a character NOT change one smidgen like that main character?
So I'm off on another tangent and leaving behind the YA sci fi and the urban fantasy completely. It's an interesting twist for my writing, but I am now remembering why I don't like standard YA. I really don't like writing about high school. LOL. Coming up with ingenious ways to make the day to day normal life of a mundane human entertaining is really making my brain snap. It's working though and it's good for me and my writing skills.
I continue to average 1000 words per day, which is my standard to write from 6:30 to 8:30 every morning. I am amazed at the output you guys can get out there!
Best wishes, good writing, and hang in there everyone. Meg
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
The rework continues. 2265 words of totally new first chapter, seems fairly solid, 1200ish of incomplete totally new second chapter; the third will be what used to be chapter 6, I think. Only real issue is that it's involving dropping a lot of names for people my POV character knew in the recent past who have not been alluded to at all before and will need to be salted in throughout.
Incidentally, in this setting cats are extinct.
belial.1980:
Bam! Current draft finished. Total word count: 119,110. I stared in the middle of August and it looked promising. Then, in October, it just crashed. I could not, for the life of me, make all the pieces work together. I realized that it had too many moving parts, so to say. Too many subplots, too many POVs, too many themes, and too much going on to fit into the framework of the story. I felt like I was watering down everything in order to fit it all in.
I decided to take a new approach and keep a little "tighter" scope of events. Conflicts became more personal and I got the chance to explore certain things a lot more intimately. Overall I think it worked out well. It's still really rough but it finally ::works:: this time around. So I'll pat myself on the back and take off the rest of the afternoon.
Of course, I'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning, brainstorming for the next installment.
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