Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread. Showing 451-500 of 4,252

[Will]

I've got some solid plot exposition down.

[Lexie]

I did enough yesterday to cover today, knowing I'd be busy - back to work tomorrow, though.

[David]

Added around 500 words or so to the new start of the book, then realised as I wrote the last paragraph that it would start better from there and all that I've done over the last week or so was unnecessary.

Great.

[Marc]

haven't written words exactly for this, but have devised 7 cartoons on Herr Trump and they are currently being drawn up by an illustrator. The resistance has to be agile & swift!

[Jim]

1500 words for Tallis Steelyard and 300 for the parish mag on the background to a hymn

[Will]

Jim wrote: "1500 words for Tallis Steelyard and 300 for the parish mag on the background to a hymn"

When I first read that I thought you had said 'battleground to a hymm'....

[Jim]

Will wrote: "Jim wrote: "1500 words for Tallis Steelyard and 300 for the parish mag on the background to a hymn"

When I first read that I thought you had said 'battleground to a hymm'...."

either reading can be appropriate.
Also I'm doing a booklet guide on the Carthaginian army which if it's anything like the Parthian one I wrote will pay better than a novel and help fund my writing habit

[Kath]

I pruned some and wrote some and ended up about 500 words better off.

[Will]

Jim wrote: "Will wrote: "Jim wrote: "1500 words for Tallis Steelyard and 300 for the parish mag on the background to a hymn"

When I first read that I thought you had said 'battleground to a hymm'...."

either..."

Hum.. would 'global change partian to carthaginian' help out here? ;-)

[Jim]

sadly no
Also they were too uncouth to share the same history.
Even more irritatingly neither had the decency to write their own histories so we know what they did only when they offended the Hellenistic or Roman worlds
It's a bit like trying to work out the history of a marriage by listening to the version given by one of the ex-spouses

[M.T.]

Mwah haahrhgh, sounds tricky Jim.

Glad to see everyone's doing well, I hope you'll share those cartoons Marc.

Just printed off 19,100 of my supposedly 20k short. It reads better than I thought it would and I think I may have sorted something that will work at about 30k - possibly 40.

Cheers

MTM

[Will]

Jim wrote: "sadly no
Also they were too uncouth to share the same history.
Even more irritatingly neither had the decency to write their own histories so we know what they did only when they offended the Helle..."

'History is a fable written by the victors'...

[Will]

2291 yesterday. Now at 3/5 of the book.

[Jim]

Will wrote: "'History is a fable written by the victors'....."

Yes, make sure you write your histories in a language that survives

[Lexie]

Ita vero!

Done my two thousand - now halfway through the book at last.

[M.T.]

They have that theory about the special relationship don't they, that Winstone Churchill made it up after Yalta. My Grandfather and Great Uncle were both friends with a chap who was Churchill's aide de camp who was at Yalta with him. Apparently it was pretty ugly.

Briefly aside on the writing thing, did 856 today in 45 minutes. Dead chuffed. The sprinting thing is working pretty well at the moment. And of course, 9 times out of 10 it leaves you in the middle of something so it's really easy to start up again the next day.

[Pam]

M.T. wrote: "Holy shizzle, I did 1,100 today, or possibly 1,200. I might have to jump over to the long work for a bit though, or at least to plot it. That'll slow me down again.

Cheers

MTM"

Wow, MT.

I've been on a bit of a roll too with the editing - five chapters yesterday. :-)

[M.T.]

Yay and another 542 in 20 minutes just now so that's 1,298. Squee...

[Lexie]

M.T. wrote: "Yay and another 542 in 20 minutes just now so that's 1,298. Squee..."

Wow again! watch you don't burn that paper!

[M.T.]

I'm amazed, it seems to be coming together quite well. It will need a lot of editing when its find but its definitely happening and it's going to be short ... er .... if not actually short.

[David]

Decided to shelve the current 1st draft and redo the outline completely to move it away from a (sort of) fantasy to a more of a mystery - get rid of the magic basically.

I think I'm moving away from wanting to write (mainly humorous) sf/fantasy, at least for the time being.

So next week I'll start again, from the beginning with the other utterly different complete outline I have.

[Tim]

I've still got that scifi series in me somewhere... (I'll stay away from military though, much as I like reading it: there are too many jarheads in the audience ready to pick holes!)

[Lexie]

David wrote: "Decided to shelve the current 1st draft and redo the outline completely to move it away from a (sort of) fantasy to a more of a mystery - get rid of the magic basically.

I think I'm moving away fr..."

Keep us posted - good luck!

[Lexie]

Tim wrote: "I've still got that scifi series in me somewhere... (I'll stay away from military though, much as I like reading it: there are too many jarheads in the audience ready to pick holes!)"

I don't think I count - I only do Georgian military (Battle of Waterloo, anyone?).

[David]

Tim wrote: "I've still got that scifi series in me somewhere... (I'll stay away from military though, much as I like reading it: there are too many jarheads in the audience ready to pick holes!)"

Yeah. I'd want to stay away from something like that too. I've always been less keen on the space opera end of SF anyway.

[David]

Lexie wrote: "Keep us posted - good luck!"

Thanks. I'll have to see how this other outline I have pans out. But things should go ok.

The Battle of Waterloo should be good. A lot of research though.

[Tim]

David wrote: "Lexie wrote: "Keep us posted - good luck!"

Thanks. I'll have to see how this other outline I have pans out. But things should go ok.

The Battle of Waterloo should be good. A lot of research though."

And a lot of Abba . . .

[Marc]

those cartoons were delivered to me yesterday.

You can view them here

http://sulcicollective.blogspot.co.uk...

[Marc]

I also wrote a 100 word story with all words beginning with the letter F, for a submission call. Yes, it's experimental

[Lexie]

Tim wrote: "David wrote: "Lexie wrote: "Keep us posted - good luck!"

Thanks. I'll have to see how this other outline I have pans out. But things should go ok.

The Battle of Waterloo should be good. A lot of ..."

Ho, ho. Yes, so much research that when I finally came to write it, 12,000 words pretty much spilled on to the page in one go. Felt good!

Unlike today, which has been a complete washout.

[David]

Lexie wrote: "Ho, ho. Yes, so much research that when I finally came to write it, 12,000 words pretty much spilled on to the page in one go. Felt good!"

Ha. It does feel good when it goes that well. You will have to be careful though, doing research. If you end up knowing what you are talking about you won't be allowed back on the internet.

My day today too feels like a total washout.

[M.T.]

I think I did about 1.5k today. I had the whole day to write and so obviously, it was obligatory that I have a minging headache. It's going away now but it did slow things down a bit.

David, that sounds brave. Best of British.
Tim, I like the Waterloo joke and I sympathise about your thing with the jarheads is the reason I don't write fantasy with proper mythical beasts in. Because I thought that if I wrote about dragons, all it would do is promote a deluge of emails from people who knew more about dragons than I did complaining that I'd got it wrong.

Cheers

MTM

[Lexie]

M.T. wrote: "I think I did about 1.5k today. I had the whole day to write and so obviously, it was obligatory that I have a minging headache. It's going away now but it did slow things down a bit.

David, that ..."

We were leaving the cinema after watching some dragon film years ago and were much amused to hear a small boy saying 'But Daddy, a real green dragon wouldn't have done that!'.

[Tim]

I think technically you're allowed to make your own rules . . .

(and if I I did write them, my space marines would naturally be bootnecks, not jarheads - i.e. Royal Marines not USMC). But still.

"Per mare per terra per astra" or sommat.

[Jim]

My SF has been classed as 'military' but I keep mine decidedly at the 'brush war' level and it doesn't seem to bother people :-)

[Elizabeth]

I don't care what other people think they know about dragons - I just know.

Goergette Heyer does a pretty mean vignette of the battle of Waterloo. If you're out there, GL, do you recall the title?

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I know the one you mean, Elizabeth. I'll have to look up the title though.


Ah! Its An Infamous Army

[Elizabeth]

Cheers ; )

[David]

M.T. wrote: "I think I did about 1.5k today. I had the whole day to write and so obviously, it was obligatory that I have a minging headache. It's going away now but it did slow things down a bit.

David, that sounds brave. Best of British."

Well, done. That's pretty good going, especially with the headache.

Thanks. It will be interesting to see if I can write anything worthwhile without feeling a need to put some jokes in it.

[Patti (baconater)]

Jim wrote: "My SF has been classed as 'military' but I keep mine decidedly at the 'brush war' level and it doesn't seem to bother people :-)"

Brush war?

Is that like when I tackle my bed head in the morning?

[Will]

M.T. wrote: "I think I did about 1.5k today. I had the whole day to write and so obviously, it was obligatory that I have a minging headache. It's going away now but it did slow things down a bit.

David, that ..."

Like that Library thing review I got. Quote: A dragon could not play bass guitar. His claws would get caught on the frets. I know this as I am a professional bassist.' No, it wasn't a satirical review...

[Will]

David wrote: "M.T. wrote: "I think I did about 1.5k today. I had the whole day to write and so obviously, it was obligatory that I have a minging headache. It's going away now but it did slow things down a bit.
..."

I managed it with the horror series. Not much humour in there.

[Jim]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Jim wrote: "My SF has been classed as 'military' but I keep mine decidedly at the 'brush war' level and it doesn't seem to bother people :-)"

Brush war?

Is that like when I tackle my bed head in ..."

I'm not going to comment on your personal grooming

[M.T.]

Managed about 1.2k today ... on a SATURDAY! Woot. Have tried to sketch out some scenes so I can write by numbers if I get the odd half hour or so over half term.

Cheers

MTM

[M.T.]

Ooop and another 1.2k. Have to go out to dinner now though.

[Patti (baconater)]

We don't get a half term. :(

[Pam]

M.T. wrote: "Ooop and another 1.2k. Have to go out to dinner now though."

Woo, well done MT.

Well, I got through the edits on the last 6 chapters and am now tackling the formatting of the ebook version that I will do yet another text-to-speech read through on.

[Jonathan]

Actually wrote just short of 1500 words today. This part of my story is written in diary form from a member of the 1930's gentry. Written in first person with some very long elaborate words. Not what I'm used to writing, but great fun...!!

[M.T.]

400. It's half term and we're about to go out for the day so I'm excessively chuffed. I also know the contents of another, as yet, unwritten scene which should keep me occupied on Thursday. On the downside, McOther's parents are starting to suffer ill health and as they are no longer able to travel he is having to fly up to see them this weekend as his Mum's birthday is this month.

So the weekend is going to be hard work because we were going to have a quiet one at home ... but with just the two of us quiet is really hard work. So McMini and I will have to do something. Not sure what yet.

[David]

Made a start on the other 1st draft - 687 words and some rearranging of them to introduce the MC before anyone else.