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Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)
The Deposed King:
50k - Admiral Invincible
51k - Admiral Invincible
52k - Admiral Invincible
The Deposed King
meg_evonne:
Approximately 3300 words to complete the rough draft, as well as the major smoothing out of the prior days work each morning. Managing my writing time from 6 - 8 like normal. I'm at WyrdCon and Gamers sleep late. Lots of quiet places to write while eating breakfast. Great staff that give you lots of room and privacy.
And WyrdCon is awesome. Jim's class was great and I made tons of notes, but the most notable for me to put to use? Ping Pong... Yeah, cryptic, but very helpful for two applications:
* Dialog - even in group dialog scenes plan it out so two are communicating at a time before moving on to conversation between a different grouping of two. This keeps the reader tracking smoothly. Ping Pong between them and it will also clean up excess dialog tags. Not as clunky and awkward as it sounds.
* Fight scenes - again Ping Pong between two characters at a time AND keep it to Stimulus - Response, Stimulus - Response, etc. In other words keep it moving like a Ping Pong, but don't break the sequence above. Of course never reverse, which would be, uhhh, stupid.
I have a list of about ten new things for me to consider and search out when working on my edits.
The Deposed King:
Just popped another book up on amazon. The Painting book 2 of my Rise of the Witch Guard series will be live in less than 12 hours.
The Deposed King
meg_evonne:
rough draft done 82712 words *happy dance*
Revision and edits for months on end to go. In the meantime, I'm reading Skin Game. Happy writing all. AND CONGRATS DK! I'll be looking for it.
meg_evonne:
Simple line edits cut 280 words over 12 pages. At my beginning page count of 296 that means I'll pull off 6,775 over the entire manuscript. I want to get to 60,000. That's another 13,275 to trim via major revision work. For starters, that doesn't look too bad...
Waiting for midnight to download Skin Game. Might as well keep working.
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