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Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread.
Today I mostly wrote just over 200 words, adding to the 78,000 wrote so far. Not much, but it's at a pivotal point in the story, which has been a real pain to write. Hopefully, the next 20,000 or so will be a breeze.
I'll join you when I get back to writing. I'm giving myself a break after NaNo to catch up on beta reads and reviews.I won't be away from it long, I suspect.
Right now I'm plugging in extra extra-long hours into the day work, to get stuff out the door so I can pay for Christmas (or at least finish paying for last Christmas). I haven't forgotten I said I'd target 200 words a day, it's just this is more pressing.Soon as I can though, and I have been thinking about it.
Today?420 words on a blog post and 1782 words from Tallis Steelyard
Was out of the house and away from the computer from 10am to 2pm but that was when I plotted out the Tallis Steelyard story
https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...
Exellent, thanks for replying everyone and top going David and Jim, enjoy catching up, Kath, good luck earning a money pod Tim! I don't have to go to Mm and Dad's this week and I'm not very well which has put the word count up: lots of good excuses to sit around!Cheers
MTM
No word counting at the moment. Final editing and currently wrestling with an intransigent sea god.
Elizabeth wrote: "No word counting at the moment. Final editing and currently wrestling with an intransigent sea god."Try electricity, it shorts them out . . .
I've 2 projects on the go, neither with a word count in mind, in fact I have no idea if one of them is a short story, a novella or a full novel.So over the weekend I did 2000 words on that one and yesterday I wrote 1000 words on the other which will definitely be a short story, something probably around 2000 words in all. Yesterday I also wrote a review of a TV series which was probably 500 words
Yesterday I increased my 1st draft word count to 1200 per day.Obviously, I didn't get there - yesterday was somewhere around 880, and today was around the upper 900s, but I did have to stop to do some research into... well, that would be telling.
Tim wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "No word counting at the moment. Final editing and currently wrestling with an intransigent sea god."Try electricity, it shorts them out . . ."
Lol
Just starting today's. I have one hour and fifteen minutes. Let's see how it goes.Cheers
MTM
Written a shed load (3500 words ish) today. Unfortunately, only around 300 of those were on Cull in a free lesson I had, so not great. More to do tonight.
I'm at 1822 today, with a great new motto for this book.There are no innocent bystanders; just victims.
1322. There would have been more but... you know how it is. I'm rather glad there weren't too many as it was one of those days when I couldn't concentrate or think of the words I really wanted. Will have to work on it next week. No time this week. Sigh.
Elisabeth, I hope the sea god is suitably subdued now.Anna, 1322 is great - and I know what you mean about slow days. But at least you'll have something to work on next week.
Gaff and Will, bonanza! Nice going guys.
Quite pleased myself. I managed to squeak my total up to 7,607 so I did round about 1530 words ... which wasn't bad for what was about 90 minutes in the end.
Strangely, this one is sort of plotted in that I do, sort of, know where it's going. Or at least, I have a scene with the old ladies in the pub having a chat in my head and to be able to write that scene a fair few other scenes have to take place first.
Only trouble is, I suspect it's going to be more than 20k. But hey if I aim for 20 and get 50 it doesn't really matter if it still happens in 6 months or under. I'm aiming to have this one done done by the end of March and ready to launch by the end of April.
Yeh yeh... I can dream.
I spent all days in meetings about changes in acute NHS services in North, west and east Cumbria. Word count zero
But I'm sure with thought Tallis Steelyard might get an idea or two
Would you really let Tallis loose on the NHS?
I doubt he could stuff it up any more than the pen pushers running it at moment do, not to mention the government
Being recited to for long periods can get most people back on their feet and staggering out of the door :-)Listening to people talk, what seems to have gone wrong is that creating an internal market for health care slammed into the mind set of the people within the industry, very few of whom had any grasp of how a market works best. So they used the market to shut their opposition down, not to grow.
I've seen it happen before, where various education and training bodies were fighting with knives, not to provide a better training so that students came to them, but to show the other was providing a worse training so they could steal their budget using bureaucratic channels
Topped out yesterday at 2604.Beta reader: what are you going to call this village?
Me: a target rich environment...
ah, the smell of napalm in the morning :-)
933 words today. Should be more, but I'm in the obligatory hero at the mercy of the villain scene and I've grown quite fond of my protagonist now, and she certainly thinks she has suffered enough already.
253 at the moment. 40 minutes to go. ;-)
Will wrote: "Topped out yesterday at 2604.Beta reader: what are you going to call this village?
Me: a target rich environment..."
Be suspicious of any village named Ground Zero . . .
Just over 1,500 words yesterday :~)None today :~(
An average of 750 per day's not to bad.
Feeling left out :(Wrote a shopping list. Must have been at least 20 words!
Squeee! 1069. Have to go do the school run now.
Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "Feeling left out :(Wrote a shopping list. Must have been at least 20 words!"
The last shopping list I wrote had a great plot twist near the end. I crossed out cheese and wrote sprouts instead in a different style of handwriting just to increase the tension.
So that turned it into horror!
Oh, want to join this when I start the next book after the New Year! At the moment I have to content myself with plotting while knitting.
Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "So that turned it into horror!"It was more of a murder mystery when we discovered someone had boiled the sprouts to death.
Mine was lacking in plot, but plenty of characters
David wrote: "Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "So that turned it into horror!"It was more of a murder mystery when we discovered someone had boiled the sprouts to death."
There are some would consider that a mercy killing.
Lexie wrote: "It was more of a murder mystery when we discovered someone had boiled the sprouts to death."There are some would consider that a mercy killing."
Justifiable homicide was the final decision.
Would it be death by exposure if you cooked them thai style with garlic, a little sugar, fish sauce and chilli? They are heavenly like that.An amazing thing has happened ... McOther is out tonight, and I've just hit, 9,081 so I have clocked 1,474! Not as good as yesterday but the 10k mark looms ever closer!
Lexie - just jump in when you're ready!
Ro, the shopping list probably made more sense than some of the stuff I'm writing ... the sprouts will assist what my son would call 'your lower platform'. Phnark. Or should that be parp! And it's nice to have you and GL here to take the piss. And Lexie, until she joins in.
Cheers
MTM
I am a notorious extractor of urine ;)
But what do you do with it all? Is there a market for it?
Oh definitely. Plenty of uses for it.
Waulking the tweed! Although that is usually production of horse that is used :)
I hope that's the famous woollen cloth and not the famous salmon river?
It's also used in tanning and we all know how GL feels about leather. She has a dungeon, after all.
Soapmaking, and gunpowder manufacture. Though both those processes might be a bit dated (you can tell I write historical fiction).
PS it was 9277 in the end. ;-) Feeling chuffed.
M.T. wrote: "Would it be death by exposure if you cooked them thai style with garlic, a little sugar, fish sauce and chilli? They are heavenly like that."Sounds nice.
Said as someone who doesn't really like mixing vegetables with food that much.
Started late today and forgot to check how many words - probably about 300, some of which may have been spelt correctly.
I'm actually having to do some work, which is annoying.
Hate it when that happens
I replied to some emails today.Couple hundred words, at least.
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I was wondering if anyone wants to join me on a 'today I mostly wrote...' style word count thread where we can post our progress and give each other cheerful encouragement when it's going well, commiserations when it's going ... not well ... etc.
To the tune of that, I'm going to say,
Today I mostly wrote 1,500 words
This brings my total to 6035 in a target of 20,000.
Anyone else ... ?
Cheers
MTM