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most productive day ever
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on January 24, 2009, 10:59:04 PM ---Well, I'm feeling a sense of accomplishment today -- not that it was an especially productive day in terms of volume, but I finally finished the first draft of my first novel. Ten and a half months (no, I wasn't writing full-time, or even every day, not by a long shot) and 150,000 words, give or take a couple hundred.
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Well done.
--- Quote ---I think I'm going to take Stephen King's advice from On Writing and put it away for a few weeks to gain some perspective while I block out the sequel and begin researching the business end of writing, before I buckle down and begin the long process of revision.
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Fwiw, one of the things that I think is most effective because most honest in On Writing is how much King shows how how he writes links to who he is. I can entirely agree with his notion of putting things aside to revise them, but I cannot imagine a few weeks being long enough; and he is pretty clear in that book about having a bad memory in ways such that putting something aside for a few weeks for him may well be the same as putting something aside for six months for someone else.
meg_evonne:
I started my week's vacation with 2500 and an 8 page outline. One week later, I'm at 12500 and most of it isn't crap, well at least it doesn't stink, ahh heck I'll end up editing out about 4,000 minimum eventually. Thank you AZ and sunshine!
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on February 05, 2009, 07:36:27 PM ---I started my week's vacation with 2500 and an 8 page outline. One week later, I'm at 12500 and most of it isn't crap, well at least it doesn't stink, ahh heck I'll end up editing out about 4,000 minimum eventually. Thank you AZ and sunshine!
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Well done.
I am at that point in the current WiP where the initial rush is past and I'm not quite to the next major plot point, and ideas for how to fix other projects are starting to get aggressive. (Though it did not help that I got nothing done last weekend; spending most of it on the phone to credit card companies and travel agents kind of shot my concentration.)
Starbeam:
I was actually hoping to get something done the other day, and was typing up all my character notes and such, and the program froze on me. Now when I open the file, it's a blank window. Good thing is that I have at least 5 different copies saved on disc, paper, and handwritten.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Starbeam on February 05, 2009, 09:15:33 PM ---I was actually hoping to get something done the other day, and was typing up all my character notes and such, and the program froze on me. Now when I open the file, it's a blank window. Good thing is that I have at least 5 different copies saved on disc, paper, and handwritten.
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Good good; hope the restore goes smoothly. One of the things I've been displacing with this past couple of weeks is collating everything on all my major projects and making additional backups on a couple of flash cards, with the intention of getting my brother to keep a copy when I am in Ireland, for yet another level of backup redundancy.
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