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Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread.
M.T. wrote: "I need to do some more planning, too. Did 1,500 words today so I'm chuffed!"Good job. Keep it up.
Jim wrote: "did 2000 words for Stilwater the Squid Wrestlerhttps://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com..."
This line,
It may have been love, or perhaps merely indigestion caused by a strongly spiced batter pie he’d eaten.
Was just classic! Love it.
Won't get much done today. It's going to be a busy one.
Cheers
MTM
Distracted by writing more of these modern fairy tales. Hansel and Gretel over the weekend.
Not quite at my quota yet - lots of walking and thinking on Saturday so I at least had some idea of where to start, but my mind's wandering today!
Oh sod it, I'm going to kill someone. That will get me moving along.
Does about 1400 words per killing sound about right? Or not enough?
The actual action? Depends - is there a chase leading up to it? What's the murder method? Indoors or outdoors - what obstacles are there? Can you see into the murderer's mind, or the victim's? Are there witnesses? You could really bump this up to 2,000 each if you worked at it!
Will wrote: "Does about 1400 words per killing sound about right? Or not enough?"Depends.
If they are being killed by evolutionary change it is probably a bit fast.
If its by a machine gun, it is a bit slow.
If it's Midsummer Murders there is usually one killing per impending ad-break.
870 words today.Not bad for a Monday, or for that matter, an idle sod.
I'm just debating whether a character is going to outright die, or just disappear into captivity and never be heard from again. On rereading that sentence, that sounds terrible!!
✿Claire✿ (Tiny Owl) wrote: "I'm just debating whether a character is going to outright die, or just disappear into captivity and never be heard from again. On rereading that sentence, that sounds terrible!!"
dead can be spectacular but is usually terminal
disappeared means that you can always bring them back later, bitter and twisted :-)
M.T. wrote: "Jim wrote: "did 2000 words for Stilwater the Squid Wrestlerhttps://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com..."
This line,
It may have been love, or perhaps merely indigestion caused by a strongly spiced batter pie he’d eaten.
Was just classic! Love it...."
you see, how many other authors can do romance and vulgar catering in the same, 18 word, sentence!
the vulgar is easy enough, it's the other bits that take the effort
Its difficult to get the spice exactly right in the batter pie.
you wouldn't believe the depth of research that goes into these stories!
How many pies did you have to eat?
fortunately I managed to avoid that, having found a willing victim who purchased their own
and how is that person feeling now?
Queasy, I expect.I've managed 4357 today, one very messy death and a slightly less messy one. No pies were involved at any stage.
Death by pie. Mmmmm
Rosemary (grooving with the Picts) wrote: "Death by pie. Mmmmm"I think I would prefer death by ice cream
Jim wrote: "✿Claire✿ (Tiny Owl) wrote: "I'm just debating whether a character is going to outright die, or just disappear into captivity and never be heard from again. On rereading that sentence, that sounds.
"dead can be spectacular but is usually terminal
disappeared means that you can always bring them back later, bitter and twisted :-) "
Very true! Although I brought the character in to be hidden by the main characters, then decided it would be easier to kill him off somehow or capture him! Gives far better reasoning for the next bit I've written!!
I only had a short time to write and for a call from my mum in the first five minutes in worry because she'd had a letter saying she'd signed up for something that was going to cost her £214.50 a month. She had but luckily the cash hadn't come out of her account so I cancelled the direct debit. I will have to write to them and say she is not signing up as I don't know what she's signed or what she did. I have a 15 day cooling off period even if it's a binding contract after that. Sorted it out but no writing done today. Sigh.
Well done for catching it in time! Thank goodness there was a proper cooling off period.Done my quota yesterday, and made a start on today's. Spent much of yesterday trying to sort out the ending which still seems unnecessarily complicated in my head.
I'm well on with today's numbers already. Now that I can sort of see the ending, it is a lot easier.
872 words today. I may have spelt as many as three of them correctly judging by the number of wriggly red lines in there.
you know you're on a roll when the spell check switches itself off in desperation
Done my quota. How can your head feel like glue trying to sort out your own plot that you invented yourself? Think I'm going to write a stream-of-consciousness job next with no plot at all, just verbal dribbling.
Jim wrote: "you know you're on a roll when the spell check switches itself off in desperation"There are times when I sit there for several minutes trying to work out what particular tangle of letters is supposed to be.
Lexie wrote: "Done my quota. How can your head feel like glue trying to sort out your own plot that you invented yourself? Think I'm going to write a stream-of-consciousness job next with no plot at all, just ..."
I get accused of having done that (several times) all the time
Lexie wrote: "Done my quota. How can your head feel like glue trying to sort out your own plot that you invented yourself? "You mean it's not supposed to be like that all the time?
I always assume that if I know what I'm doing then I'm doing it wrong.
Scriviner thinks that hiccuped is spelled hiccough. Weird.1396 today in an hour and a half. ;-) Dead chuffed.
That's the way I spell hiccough! It's in that poem 'I take it you already know of cough and bough and tough and dough. Others may stumble, but not you, on hiccough, thorough, laugh and through ...'
Yeah I spell it like that too :)
Yesterday I wrote 1433 words, without killing anyone.Just sayin'.
M.T. wrote: "Scriviner thinks that hiccuped is spelled hiccough. Weird.1396 today in an hour and a half. ;-) Dead chuffed."
Well done on the words.
I like the way MS word pronounces squirrel when you get it to read to you.
950 words today - possibly in the right order.
And another one bites the dust, another one bites the dust.
An inventive killing makes me feel so much better.
About 6,000 today, and the end of the book (ish). Now got to go back and add all the things I realise I need, including a much-put-upon goat.Wouldn't have got so far except that I had to take the train down to St. Andrews (2,000) and back (4,000, as someone sadly went under a preceding train and I waited at Leuchars (not exactly St. Pancras) for two hours. And in between took photos for blog book launch and email newsletter, so I'm feeling a warm sense of achievement, but deep sympathy for the train driver involved. An evening of mixed emotions.
1025 today - all of them around a kitchen table at breakfast time, but it was the protagonist's birthday.
Sucks for the train driver, Lexie.I'm now over my base word count target for Demon's Reach, and as the body count rises (that's two more today. One in one brief sentence, another loving described) I'm one small scene away from the major climax so I'll be finished this month for sure.
I always feel sorry for the driver. It must be awful.
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