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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc Part II.
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: spywolf on March 04, 2013, 09:39:48 AM ---no new writing unless you count the history essays for school that are normally 500-700+ words each
I do about 2-4 a week
so no fun writing for me
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129 - AIS (8k total for the day, not a bad day's work!)
That's too bad spy thing! I understand how hard it can be to get in that creative groove when everything else is trying to get in the way. Case in point, school work!
The Deposed King
Dresdenus Prime:
2500 words last night and two blog posts!
I'm very happy with my progress right now. For a little over a week I've been able to keep a goal of 1000 words per weekday (I have a full time job) and 2000 per weekend (Saturday didn't work because I had guests over) but things are really flowing!
I'm estimating a June release for my book. I wanted to originally shop it out to publishers but after doing some research I decided to self-publish.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Spent Friday night mostly picking apart and reassembling what are now chapters 6 and 10 of TIWTBWO #1, which are by far the trickiest bits in this rewrite.
(The story concerns four people who have been sent into a situation that was badly misread, and needs something closer to four hundred people to handle; the four hundred people are on their way once the right people can be gathered and transported, and should be there fairly soon, and the four who are already there are struggling to hold it together in the mean time. The previous draft opened with a bang, as it were, and with my protagonist and her colleagues as the obvious suspects for that bang, and the chapters I am talking about were the first on-stage introductions of colleagues #1 and #2. After having it pointed out that that structure created an expectation that the book, and indeed the series, would be focused on the police-procedural/mystery aspects more than it turns out to be, I've gone back to put two more chapters on the beginning, with these four people arriving in the situation in the first place, to introduce the broader context and clarify the scale that I want readers thinking on and caring about. This has made what those first-after-the-bang scenes have to do really quite different; I think they now work on content, but I need to let them sit for a week and reread them to make sure that all this fiddling flows smoothly. I'll probably have a similar wrestle with chapter 15 or 16 where I had previously been first introducing colleague #3, but I doubt it will be as rough as 10 was.) During which all I would seem to have cut about 150 words and written about 800 new.
spywolf:
I can get creative for about an hour but by then I can not look at a computer screen :(
I am hopefully going to get some free time sunday
if things go acording to plan
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on March 04, 2013, 04:46:49 PM ---Spent Friday night mostly picking apart and reassembling what are now chapters 6 and 10 of TIWTBWO #1, which are by far the trickiest bits in this rewrite.
(The story concerns four people who have been sent into a situation that was badly misread, and needs something closer to four hundred people to handle; the four hundred people are on their way once the right people can be gathered and transported, and should be there fairly soon, and the four who are already there are struggling to hold it together in the mean time. The previous draft opened with a bang, as it were, and with my protagonist and her colleagues as the obvious suspects for that bang, and the chapters I am talking about were the first on-stage introductions of colleagues #1 and #2. After having it pointed out that that structure created an expectation that the book, and indeed the series, would be focused on the police-procedural/mystery aspects more than it turns out to be, I've gone back to put two more chapters on the beginning, with these four people arriving in the situation in the first place, to introduce the broader context and clarify the scale that I want readers thinking on and caring about. This has made what those first-after-the-bang scenes have to do really quite different; I think they now work on content, but I need to let them sit for a week and reread them to make sure that all this fiddling flows smoothly. I'll probably have a similar wrestle with chapter 15 or 16 where I had previously been first introducing colleague #3, but I doubt it will be as rough as 10 was.) During which all I would seem to have cut about 150 words and written about 800 new.
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All this revamping you keep posting about sounds grueling. I'm so glad my reworking and insert has only been squeezed into two weeks worth of editing before release.
Keep up the hard work, I'm sure it'll turn out the way you like it.
Modified: 135 - AIS
The Deposed King
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