Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread. Showing 801-850 of 4,252

[M.T.]

As an ex public passenger transport worker, I can tell you that the train doesn't always kill them. Sometimes have plenty of time to consider, and regret their decision. It is when the train is finally winched off them that they die. Horrific. For everyone.

250 words today. Was too busy sorting out the latest shit my parents have got themselves into. Sigh.

Cheers

MTM

[Lexie]

Nothing today (unless I get the competition short story written this evening): letting the current WIP stew for a couple of days before I go back to add in the missing bits. That and being too busy.

[✿Claire✿]

A friend told me that if they see someone on the tracks, often the driver will sound the horn, apply the brake and turn around so they don't actually have to witness it. I always feel sorry for the driver as well.
Oddly enough, another friend and I were talking about it yesterday (we were discussing bad jobs and interesting jobs and everything in between) and he said the important thing if I ever get called to one is to get stuck in and involved, you don't get time to really think about it then until afterwards and it doesn't affect you as much.
Not done much writing the last few days, got a chest infection so not done much of anything today. Back to work tomorrow so I might get my writing mojo back :)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Oh dear, this seems to have turned into the body count thread! Claire, I don't know how you do it!

[✿Claire✿]

Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "Oh dear, this seems to have turned into the body count thread! Claire, I don't know how you do it!"

It's not my fault, I didn't start it!!!
And I've decided not to kill off my character, yet!!

But seriously, thank you, I sometimes wonder as well.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I think its all Will's fault. It usually is...

I'm sure your character has breathed a sign of relief!

[✿Claire✿]

Maybe... he's going to be half drowned and then captured so maybe not!!

Yes, we'll blame Will, sounds like a good idea!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Hahaha, then breathing will be a problem :)


Will does make an excellent scapegoat.

[Will]

Hey, I only offed two of them today.

I will try and cut down.

Actually, that gives me n idea for this passing priest...

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

"Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?"

[Will]

*Raises hand*

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Ok, don't tell me any details, thanks.

[Will]

So I won't mention the woman I've had eaten from the inside out, then

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Necrotising fasciitis or naughty demon?

[David]

Only 457 words today.

But I did get to the plot point at the end of the first act and enter the middle build at around 17-18000 words.

Dunno what all that means, but it does make it look like I know what I'm doing.

Ha.

[Will]

I'm now approaching the climax of this book. Final scene in view.

[An]

Will wrote: "I'm now approaching the climax of this book. Final scene in view."
Еeating all of what's resting, ha-ha..?

328 words today for microcompetition "In just 3 frases", sci-fi genre -- the shortest piece of my ever! Had to invest some great brainstorming but...

[Jim]

A couple of thousand more words for Tallis. I'm preparing a blog tour but this one was one story I decided to stick on my blog :-)

https://tallissteelyard.wordpress.com...

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Tallis always seems to end up involved in drama or one sort or another!

[Jim]

he has a flair for the dramatic

[M.T.]

Nothing today but I did a 3k blog post again: https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2017/03/18/re...

Cheers

MTM

[Will]

And at just shy of 60K, I've just typed The End of the first draft.

So not exactly the end. Not even the beginning of the end. More like the end of the beginning.

[Kath]

309 words. Not much but it's an edit. Total so far is 70,845.

[Lisa]

Nothing for days unless you count Twitter. Here's where I make a dire confession; if Mew was human he would probably have joined the body count. I love him dearly but after weeks of getting an average of three hours sleep a night and those gruesome howls every time he sees me settle to work on the PC in the hall... Well, thank goodness for him he is a cat! A friend of mine says there is not much difference between a senior cat and a newborn baby. Perhaps I will manage something this afternoon. He is sleeping now and the laptop is under the sofa.

[M.T.]

Well done Will and Kath, sympathies Lisa.

I managed 789 today in the last 40 minutes so I'm quite chuffed. Things are getting going nicely and I've hit on a nice way to tie in the characters it is supposed to be about with the people it's actually about. So that's good.

Cheers

MTM

[David]

1152 words today.

[Will]

Tomorrow I can start redrafting.

[Kath]

293 - you can tell it's not a first draft!

[David]

1177 today.

[Will]

I've added a few hundred on the first edit pass.

[M.T.]

Just over 1,000. ;-) Dead chuffed.

[Lisa]

I managed to list a couple of items on eBay. Does that count? :)

[Pam]

Managed to edit a couple of chapters yesterday; a lot of other stuff going on at the moment.

[Lisa]

Pam wrote: "Managed to edit a couple of chapters yesterday; a lot of other stuff going on at the moment."

I know the feeling well Pam. Good luck with the edit.

[Will]

I've added another 670 words during editing so far

[Kath]

Only 153 today but the edit is moving on.

[David]

1191 today in the 1st draft.

I suppose I ought to count the 300-400 I added today to the one currently in outline stage too.

[Kath]

You certainly should.

[David]

Kath wrote: "You certainly should."

and the 54 words I've - apparently - added to the current second draft too?

I have also discovered I like editing.

[Lisa]

485 for a bio, precis down to 231 to make it more snappy... The cat has been pilled! Yay! No fuss, furosemide this morning, fortekor this afternoon and he is getting sneaky vitamin B in his dinner. It may or may not calm him down... If so, more words tomorrow, perhaps.

[M.T.]

Well done everyone. I did just under 200 today, which wasn't bad for a visit the parents day! ;-)

Cheers

MTM

[Pam]

Lisa wrote: "Pam wrote: "Managed to edit a couple of chapters yesterday; a lot of other stuff going on at the moment."

I know the feeling well Pam. Good luck with the edit."

Thanks Lisa. I managed another chapter today.

[Will]

David wrote: "Kath wrote: "You certainly should."

and the 54 words I've - apparently - added to the current second draft too?

I have also discovered I like editing."

Like editing??? Pervert.

[David]

Will wrote: "David wrote:

I have also discovered I like editing."

Like editing??? Pervert."

How do you know about what happens to the words down in my story dungeon?

Anyway, it is for their own good. Words need firm discipline to get them to say what you want them to say.

[Jim]

Didn't Humpty Dumpty tell Alice something like that?

[Jim]

Oh and got something written
It's been slow, not had a lot of time to write because of having to do other stuff. But not only that with the Carthaginian thing I'm working on I have to do research and check facts and I can spend an evening and add thirty words!

So it was a delight to sit down this afternoon and bang out 1700 for Tallis Steelyard for his blog :-)

[Lexie]

I managed (quite by accident) to use a steelyard in my current WIP. I also had a goat, but I think he might become a bulldog. It's difficult to know when I haven't had the chance to start editing yet.

[Jim]

It's a good name and struck me as a little incongruous for a poet. I told Tallis that and he sulked briefly

[Elizabeth]

Re-ordered the last chapter yesterday so it made better sense. Now for the 'read out loud to self' bit to see where the story stutters.

[David]

Jim wrote: "Didn't Humpty Dumpty tell Alice something like that?"

Yes.

Or no.

Depending on what he wanted those words to mean.