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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc Part II.
spywolf:
spent most of the day editing
there are still words in chapter 5 that I don't know the correct spelling for...
*sigh*
Wordmaker:
Always interesting when a chapter doesn't go quite as I'd planned. 67,955 words!
spywolf:
in a good way or a bad way?
also how long does it take to get to 67,000+ words?
Wordmaker:
Oh the good way, definitely. I was expecting more action, less emotion, in this one. It'll need fleshing out when I'm editing, I think, but unless something is utterly pivotal (Like changing a character's gender or something) I never stop to do edits until the first draft is done.
This book has been slow going. I've been writing it since mid-February. But it's impossible to say, from one book to the next, how long it'll take. Locked Within took me a year to write. Silent Oath took me about 5 months to get the first version done, but I managed to get an entire re-write (with mostly new material) done in the space of 2 months.
spywolf:
five months? WTH?
wait Charlotte these people don't juggle classes and homework at the same time as writing... ::)
if I don't check some things as I go along I end up with giant problems with spellings and grammar and forget the word I was meant to spell
i only tweak little things to make it flow better... I normally write a few chapters then go back and check for huge gaping problems
(I still can not spell for toffy though ::) )
I spotted a huge gaping problem with chapter 5 which is mostly fixed... (I still don't know the correct spelling for coradoor though, which is bugging me!)
but tomorrow I have no school so the aim is to finish chapter 6...
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