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Author Craft / Word Count!
« on: December 31, 2009, 09:35:50 PM »
All right, from New Year to New Year's Eve, how many words have ya'll written, amongst anything you consider a "writing project" be it that Great American Novel™, your dissertation on World Peace, or... you know, boring school papers?

* Message board posts don't count! :-P

I was tallying for a blurb on Facebook, just to put something up for "What I Accomplished This Year," and was amazed when I got close to 250,000. Wow. I guess writing every day (or at least TRYING to) really does help.

Untitled (Jack and Beth's story): 106,000
Project Green-5: 62,000
Thorn's Chronicle: 75,120

Let's see if I can keep the momentum going into the new year.....

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Author Craft / Writing Reference: What's on your bookshelf?
« on: July 17, 2009, 02:50:40 PM »
Do any of ya'll collect/use reference materials?

The missus and I -- both writers -- have two shelves full of various writing reference materials: from time period, to plot/structure, crime references, to the occasional writing lifestyle book.

We've got most (if not all) of the "Elements of Fiction Writing" series from Writer's Digest Books, some of the "Science Fiction Writing Series."

Do any of you use these? If not, what do you use? Can you suggest other good reference materials? I'm not looking for a specific genre, really. I haven't bought a 'writing book' in what feels like an age, and wonder if there is anything out recently that would be a good reference, or even just a good "read."

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