The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc

[shades of grey]

I'll give it another pass, possibly adding in another subplot I've been sitting on for a potential sequel. I dunno, what's really the target for novels these days? I wanna say I heard it was 80k once. I know Nanowrimo aims for 50k and that's only supposed to be a stop gap to something larger.

I'll be honest I don't know, but it would be nice to know what to aim for.

[cenwolfgirl]

i got 20 words down so far to day
witch is way more then i have in the last two weeks
well progres is progress i soposes
baby steps  just waiting for this weekend it might actualy look like something to get exsited about 
(trying to be posertive about the low number here)

good luck everyone

CWG 

[The Deposed King]

I'll give it another pass, possibly adding in another subplot I've been sitting on for a potential sequel. I dunno, what's really the target for novels these days? I wanna say I heard it was 80k once. I know Nanowrimo aims for 50k and that's only supposed to be a stop gap to something larger.

On C.J. Cherryh's website she says teh target for a novel is 120k give or take twenty.

I think the minimum to be considered a full length novel is like... 90K?

Anyway my first was 124ish.


The Deposed King

[shades of grey]

Thanks. 

All I have to do now is give up on work so that I can write full time.
I've noticed it dulls my thinking process. 

[cenwolfgirl]

wow rely i am only a third of the way there then with one of mine
and thats the longest one
oh well must keep trying

[Darkshore]

I'm at around 15k with my current book. College and work caused me to have to stop writing for months... I feel like the story will be wrapped up at like 60k though. Hopefully I can make it work. I'd hate to try and sell this as a novella.

[Starbeam]

I'll give it another pass, possibly adding in another subplot I've been sitting on for a potential sequel. I dunno, what's really the target for novels these days? I wanna say I heard it was 80k once. I know Nanowrimo aims for 50k and that's only supposed to be a stop gap to something larger.

All depends on the kind of book you're writing.  For fantasy, it depends on the subgenre.  An urban fantasy is generally around 80-100k.  Anne Sowards said the first Ilona Andrews novel was 90k and after that they're around 100k. Another author of hers, Myke Cole, had his first book come in around 125-130k, and the second is supposed to be around 100k.  Epic fantasy will be a lot longer, usually around 250-300k.  Some of the tomes come in even higher, like Martin's books.  I believe Dance with Dragons was somewhere around 500k.

[cenwolfgirl]

how?
do you lot not sleep or some thing?
 

by the way very well done

[Lord Rae]

I might have missed my calling as a short story author... I'm constantly fighting the urge to wrap everything up in like 10 pages.

[cenwolfgirl]

wow rely i normaly get to about 20,000 words and then hit the stories ending first draft
i then have to go back and see what i have mist (descriptions little things that could be added to make it better)
it then ends up being a bit longer but if i get to 30K with the story its a reasnable length for me

[Starbeam]

how?
do you lot not sleep or some thing?
 

by the way very well done

I have to sleep normally--from around 11pm to 6:30am.  I can't stay up any later because it keeps my husband awake, and he has to get up even earlier than I do.  It's figuring out what's important.  I set aside time to write--a half hour at lunch, 15-30 minutes between exercise and dinner, Friday nights, and Saturdays.  I cut out a lot of reading, movies, tv, internet, anything that takes away from writing.  I made certain to fly past my word goal this week because I'd had a trip planned for the last couple months.  But I'm still taking my notebook with me, so that if there's time, I can write.  I keep my phone or ipod with me all the time so that I always have that to put down notes.  I keep my phone by the bed to jot down anything that comes to me then.  If I get an idea anywhere that kinda thing's not possible--in the shower, driving--I get it down as soon as I can. 

This works for a lot of people; it doesn't work for everyone.  But for myself, it works, and it has the added bonus that the more often I write, the more words I write, the more ideas I get.

[cenwolfgirl]

wow i rely need  new not book mine kinda got used up for revision nots

full time education exams and you kinda have to take a brake from writing its rely anoying as i get ideas at the most inconvinet times
oh well have time now
just need to remember all thoughs ideas
i migh try the not book thing it sounds useful
thank you 

[Lord Rae]

I banged out a timeline tonight covering roughly 3000 years of history and major conflicts and shifts in political power. Its not anything I'd ever publish or add anywhere but it's helping me get a handle on the backstory of the countries and the motivations of the major players.

[cenwolfgirl]

ooh that sounds like it was fun
well done

[cenwolfgirl]

i got 284 words done to day so far 
progress