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Author In Progress
KevinEvans:
For me I need to know where the story is going. If I have a list of "bullet points" as a guide I can knock out 2.5 to 8K in four hours. I use voice to text, so kicking back and telling the story works for me, it plays well to my start as a campfire story teller.
It should be noted that Voice to Text needs significant edits...
Regards,
Kevin
cenwolfgirl:
yeah it dose, but some times it has advanterges but it dosent like me if i keep swopping between here you tub, wikepidia and what i am writting
synthesis:
I've been writing since I was a kid.
Just a brief run-through, which now seems far more humorous and a bit surreal. Bad college experience #1 with a committee. I lost the fiction person on my committee when they went "slightly" mental and threatened to bring a gun to one of their classes. That left me frantically looking for a new committee member months before graduating and getting fiction feedback from people who only wrote poetry and nonfiction. I was young. I quit writing fiction :P Bad college experience #2 with another committee. A pure nightmare that left me stuck spinning for about six years until I found a replacement completely outside my area--I'm a lit geek and a postmodernist; I ended up with someone in Restoration British lit on my committee (I call this period "fun with tenure requirements, and what happens when their aren't enough tenured professors in your area at the college you attend). I quit writing academic stuff.
I switched to writing nonfiction and returned to reading for fun and came out reinvigorated. I've mainly published some poetry, some nonfiction, and some academic stuff here and there. My husband finally convinced me to return to fiction, which was always my first love, this past spring. I think the timing was finally right, and since February, I've been working on my first book. I work full time, but try to complete somewhere between 2-4 chapters a week. I'm hoping to have a draft finished by mid-May. I also hope it doesn't completely suck, but right now, I'm just in it for the pure enjoyment I've found in writing fiction again :D
The Deposed King:
I'm an indie author now. First book is up on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Admiral-Spineward-Sectors-Novel-ebook/dp/B007WQSY44/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335240995&sr=1-1
Cover worked out well I think.
Sequel is around 110k on the rough draft. Who knows when I'll get it finished and out the door.
the Deposed King
Gruud:
Well, I’ve been coming here for nearly two years, after having found Jim’s writing instructions etc., but I made myself a goal of not posting in this thread until I had at least a full first draft in my hands.
And now, I’m happy to say, I crossed that threshold a few weeks ago, and now have what I consider to be a solid first draft of 168,000 words or approximately 523 pages**.
So, I now feel qualified to color myself as an author in progress. ;D
Sure, it still needs plenty of work, but I’d even go so far as to say that it’s not a “rough” draft, but a proper first draft; a distinction I was in no way sure of achieving when I started.
So now, after a week or two off, and a fast read through, I’ve decided to take my first (quick) pass at the dreaded synopsis, so that it can evolve and improve along the way as the MS does.
Then it’s on to round two!!
** I’m using the standard formatting that everyone has described: Times New Roman 12, double spaced, 1 inch margins, etc.; but feel like my word to page count does not match what I see in the paperbacks that I own. Is the word to page count thing geared more toward a different published format, or do I still have something wrong? I’m trying to compare my “size” to other paperbacks of a similar genre, but feel my math isn’t working. Any suggestions?
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