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

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

good luck with that Neuro

Thank you.

[cenwolfgirl]

most welcome
i rely should get back to writing now that i fixed my small error

[Zuriel]

Last night wasn't a total waste.  I didn't get new words down, but I did re-work a story, changed it quite a bit, which was a nightmare.   

I do this all the time.  Write a story, then get a better idea and end up changing the darn thing or re-writing large chunks of it, which in itself is a good thing, I guess.  It's baby steps forward, though, and I end up with many unfinished stories.   

[cenwolfgirl]

hate it when you have to do that
i was a total idiot mponday
finished chapter 15 started 16 did not read back a
and as i had not written much for a wile in the story i had forgoten something and so had to go back to day and rewrite the begining of chapter 16 witch is prity much my hole word count for to day wwas fixing things


good luck everyone

[Zuriel]

Oh, I can't count the times I've done what you did.  Ugh.  I guess that's why having an outline helps, but I've never been that organized.   

This story I edited last night was an example.  I had to go back and explain something I'd said earlier, which I'd forgotten I said.  Luckily, that part didn't take much time.

Here's hoping we get to actually write new stuff now...

And good luck to you!

[cenwolfgirl]

thanks
i am not that organised ether
i have a rught out line of about 2 sentences tops in my head

thank you and good luck to you
i did get a little new stuff written
about 20 words
it was important 20 words but not an impresive number

good luck to you


p.s. so glade you said that it makes me feel like i am not the only one

[Zuriel]

Heavens no!  You are by far not the only one who does this sort of thing.   

Once I even had a character commenting about something that hadn't even happened yet in the story!  Argh.  I felt pretty stupid about that.  Thank goodness I found it and quickly fixed it.   

[cenwolfgirl]

aw
i still think i have a chr in two diffrent places at the same time some where
but i could be wrong and not have done that
i have done it before though

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

Once I even had a character commenting about something that hadn't even happened yet in the story!  Argh.  I felt pretty stupid about that.  Thank goodness I found it and quickly fixed it.   

A number of the things I've written have needed chapters shifted about and rearranged as I've gone along, and keeping track of continuity in that context is a real nightmare.

[cenwolfgirl]

yep but once it is donee you can get on with writing and not have to worry about it
if only i would take my own advice

[Zuriel]

My problem is I think I'll remember something without writing it down.  Ha.  Stupid brain.   

Gotta run...but good luck and happy writing!

[cenwolfgirl]

ooh i hate it when that happens
don't worry i seem to have a stupid brain to
though it dose not happen so often any more

good luck

[LDWriter2]

I've done that-rearriangeing, redo, add stuff thing a time or three but usually not on the same level as you implied. It just has to be done at times. 

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

Well, last night's work consisted of merging chapters 4 and 8 into a new chapter 4, which was easier than I had feared it would be, and moving what was chapter 7 to be chapter 5 and giving it a tighten.  So this issue's kind of on my mind at the moment.  (The underlying issue is that I have a book where the last half is OK, the first quarter is OK, and the bit from 25% to 50% of the way through really sags badly for two of the viewpoints.  The third viewpoint, which those two do not meet until well after the 50% mark, is good throughout, but in compressing the sag out and reshaping the chapters for the other two, I have to compress that thread too in order not to break my structure.)

[Darkshore]

I suppose this is the benefit of being an architect or outliner. Of all the problems or things I might have and might need to change in the re-write rearranging chapters has never been one of them and that sounds horribly painful.