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The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc Part II.
Wordmaker:
Busy work period and the birth of a new baby (bringing us to 3 baby girls) has kept me from my work, but I finally got the first chapter of my new urban fantasy book, Candlelight, written. 1,869 words.
Paynesgrey:
The next novella, "Valorous Daughter" is almost ready to go up. Waiting to get a read back from one of my Red Pen Doom Monkeys, and for the ocver art. In the meantime, I finished the first draft of "A Kiss for Damocles" this week. Came in at 113K, although I expect that to shrink on next run through. One thing that's going to be a pain is solidifying the narrator's dialect. It developed and became more individual/distinct as the work progressed, so I'm spending a good bit of time replacing more formal words or phrases with ones that would be more natural for her.
The double negatives still hurt my thinking parts though. It's like having to fold a map wrong, every time...
LizW65:
As per a half-assed New Year's resolution, I've been making the effort to write at least 1000 words a day on one or the other of my two first-drafts-in-progress,and it seems to be working; 1K/day is proving to be a good balance between (A) pushing myself and getting stressed, and (B) writing nothing and feeling guilty about it. At this pace I should have both drafts done by mid-February, and can start on the revision process.
The Deposed King:
28k - Falon II
29k - Falon II
30k - Falon II
The Deposed King
The Deposed King:
31k - Falon II
32k - Falon II
The Deposed King
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