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Re: Demolishing Writer's Block (Celebrate Them Pages Part IV)
« Reply #75 on: August 22, 2015, 06:19:05 AM »
20k on a Dresden Files short story.  Using it for practice. May have another 10k to go.  Seems long for something I'll never get anything out of other than satisfaction/practice/helpful commentary, but thems the breaks.  You gotta do what you gotta do.

I find that 20-30k word fanfiction is very nice for practicing things without needing to create a whole new world and your own characters.

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Re: Demolishing Writer's Block (Celebrate Them Pages Part IV)
« Reply #76 on: August 27, 2015, 02:29:53 AM »
I find that 20-30k word fanfiction is very nice for practicing things without needing to create a whole new world and your own characters.
True that.  34k and the story is done.  Have to re-read and complete some edits.  Might even have to drop some sections; we'll see.  There's not much action, but that's the nature of the beast when writing about certain non-wizardly characters.

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Re: Demolishing Writer's Block (Celebrate Them Pages Part IV)
« Reply #77 on: August 27, 2015, 04:50:20 AM »
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« Reply #78 on: September 07, 2015, 07:53:01 AM »
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« Reply #79 on: September 15, 2015, 02:38:26 PM »
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« Reply #81 on: September 22, 2015, 09:15:10 AM »
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Re: Demolishing Writer's Block (Celebrate Them Pages Part IV)
« Reply #82 on: September 25, 2015, 09:01:30 AM »
I have been slack, not reporting my writing recently.

Set In stone has been updated several times:

Chapter 24: 5700 words
Chapter 25: 4400 words
Chapter 26: 5600 words
Chapter 27: 7700 words
Chapter 28: 11200 words
End of Act III

Total word count is now 178,600 words.

Next chapter will be the epilogue, then I'll start to edit for publishing.

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« Reply #83 on: September 30, 2015, 01:54:51 AM »
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« Reply #84 on: October 02, 2015, 11:18:19 AM »
Set In Stone: Follower is now finished!

Epilogue: 9,400 words
Total length: 188,000 words

And now, I get to start editing roughly 900,000 words in six novels for publication, starting with this one.

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