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« Reply #900 on: November 26, 2012, 11:03:05 AM »
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

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« Reply #901 on: November 28, 2012, 02:17:03 AM »
Well, I cracked the NaNoWriNo! 53,000 words and counting!
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« Reply #902 on: November 28, 2012, 06:10:49 PM »
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.

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« Reply #903 on: November 29, 2012, 07:59:13 AM »
I hear that one writer actually papered a small bathroom with their rejection notices. ???

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« Reply #904 on: November 29, 2012, 03:45:57 PM »
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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« Reply #905 on: November 29, 2012, 05:01:31 PM »



This is the end tome of your space-opera trilogy?

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« Reply #906 on: November 29, 2012, 06:57:21 PM »
This is the end tome of your space-opera trilogy?

Not exactly; it's the concluding volume of the first arc of that space opera setting, yes, but I am certain there is one more arc of that scale of three or possibly, moderately certain of one after that, and there are all sorts of unattached bits and bobs for that setting that, from past experiences, are much more likely to hang around my mind being annoying until I have the ideas to fit them together into further novels than to turn into shorter related works.
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« Reply #907 on: November 30, 2012, 05:53:18 PM »
Gave up on my main work to Nano.  Actually won this year.  :)

Well done to anyone with staying power on their work.
You have my awe.

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« Reply #908 on: November 30, 2012, 06:05:59 PM »
Gave up on my main work to Nano.  Actually won this year.

Go you.

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Well done to anyone with staying power on their work.
You have my awe.

The way I think of it is, given that I am obsessive-compulsive anyway, I might as well turn it to a productive end. 

(One of the things I hope to get done next year is finally do the last polishing edits on a project I started in 1996. You can call that staying power if you like,  but it feels more like procrastination to me.)
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« Reply #909 on: November 30, 2012, 07:19:48 PM »
(One of the things I hope to get done next year is finally do the last polishing edits on a project I started in 1996. You can call that staying power if you like,  but it feels more like procrastination to me.)

"Slimming through hibernation"?   No?

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« Reply #910 on: December 01, 2012, 03:15:05 AM »
Final word count for my NaNoWriMo project on this date: 57,856 words (by the offical NaNoWriMo word counter --- my WP counter has a lower number...)

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« Reply #911 on: December 01, 2012, 11:55:37 AM »
180 words so far to day on new project, other projects just gathering dust
i think i am going to stick to short story writing till end of the school year
this will be the *shakes head* i don't even want to count how many i start
it will just epress me
but if i finish it it will be the 5th asuming i get an ending
nun are ever fully eddited
i like writing not editing not like any one will ever read them any time soon
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« Reply #912 on: December 03, 2012, 12:10:13 PM »
125 words on new project
plus 250 words on history paper witch i just finished
now lunch then back to new project

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« Reply #913 on: December 08, 2012, 05:16:44 AM »
2500 new words, chapter 10 done, TIWTBWO now over 45 kwords total.
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« Reply #914 on: December 09, 2012, 05:09:44 AM »
Made it to 200,000 words in my first novel today.  Still some holes to fill in the storyline, but feeling pretty good.
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