Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread. Showing 1,001-1,050 of 4,252

[Lexie]

M.T. wrote: "PS, cheeky bastard request. Would anyone be prepared to add my books to the humorous science fiction book list?

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2......"

Will do tomorrow when my brain is in gear! Past my bedtime. (as indicated by the fact that I wrote Pat my bedtime and looked at it quizzically for a little before realising what was wrong).

[Pam]

M.T. wrote: "PS, cheeky bastard request. Would anyone be prepared to add my books to the humorous science fiction book list?

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2......"

Only just seen this MT but to make up for tardiness did some voting ;-)

[Kath]

As long as you know what's Georgian! :)

[M.T.]

An wrote: "M.T. wrote: "PS, cheeky bastard request. Would anyone be prepared to add my books to the humorous science fiction book list?

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2......"

Ah you Bobby dazzler! Thank you. :-)

[Lexie]

Kath wrote: "As long as you know what's Georgian! :)"

You'll keep me right! :-) On that and ferrets, as I remember ...

720 on the new novella (ground broken, so I'm pleased, and it was in bits during a busy day, so I'm extra pleased) and the first verse of the folk song is rewritten, so I'll put that down as a good day.

[Kath]

607 words. Editing with suggestions from a real CID man!

[Lexie]

Where did you get him?!

[Kath]

He's an indie author. I proofread for him. :)

[M.T.]

Nothing on the K'Barthan thing today but I did build a facebook group page for the googly stuff: It's here if anyone wants a look:

https://www.facebook.com/eyebombthere...

Cheers

MTM

[Lexie]

Kath wrote: "He's an indie author. I proofread for him. :)"

Thank goodness - thought you'd gone and got yourself arrested!

[Kath]

They'd have to catch me first!

[Pam]

Edited a chapter today or rather yesterday....

[Tim]

It's handy having an "inside man" - my tame forensics guy is brilliant, but a CID guy would be useful too.

For my next book, a tame bootneck would be very handy . . .

Must get writing!

[Lexie]

First chapter finished! Phew: feel as if I've properly started now. Time is quite constrained at present so I have to snatch what I can - and of course as usual I've set myself a daft deadline.

[M.T.]

This is why I write utter madness. Because then I don't have to have a tame anyone! ;-)

Cheers

MTM

[Kath]

67 words, but I added some in, took some out and generally twaddled. That's what you call it when you twiddle with twaddle...

[Lexie]

I think mine's more of a twuddle.

[M.T.]

I managed another 600 words or so yesterday. Although I'm twiddling and twiddling with it a bit, and all. Although I think it's going in the right direction.

[Lexie]

Not quite on target, but close. Apparently I was aiming too high: the maximum number of words for a novella is 39,999. Precision is everything. I was aiming for a shoddy 50,000 ish.

[Pam]

Yes, according to Wikipedia 40,000+ is a novel.

[Lexie]

According to me that's a very short novel, though! Mine tend to be over the 100,000 mark, and I don't think they're that long.

[Kath]

Mine are shorter. The one I'm editing at the moment us about 74k but you know what the fellas say. Size isn't everything.

[M.T.]

I wrote nothing today but I did walk 6.8 miles and watch some blokes go past very fast on bicycles. :-)

Cheers

MTM

[Lexie]

Kath wrote: "Mine are shorter. The one I'm editing at the moment us about 74k but you know what the fellas say. Size isn't everything."

Yours are quality, Kath!

Done my quota and caught up on Friday's shortfall. Feeling chuffed - managed to write today with a whole assortment of characters wandering through the dining room where I was perched. I'm much less picky than I used to be about how and where I write. Could be a sign of maturity - or desperation.

[Kath]

Thanks for that, Lexie!

857 today. I'm doing some cutting/pasting and chopping/changing so when I've finished - not for a while - I'll have to go back and read it to see if it's in the right order!

[Will]

Words are being added at a tasty pace. about 25% into this new novel.

[Pam]

Lexie wrote: "According to me that's a very short novel, though! Mine tend to be over the 100,000 mark, and I don't think they're that long."

I know what you mean. The latest is 161,480 and it was a lot longer. I got it down below 160K at one point then had to add material to resolve a slight continuity issue.

[Pam]

Edited another chapter yesterday.

[Kath]

222 words but it won't be long before I start cutting some. This is a bit of a see-saw!

[Lexie]

Grr, 1000 words but I was aiming for 4000! Swamped by accounting paperwork, printing out a year's worth of Amazon royalty statements (each of which takes ten pages regardless of how much you might have earned, or does for me, anyway).

[Elizabeth]

Nowt. Although I did find my tides table in all the sorting which I need to consult for the final elusive editing of those last 20 pages.

[M.T.]

Nothing yesterday because it was Wednesday. I had some interesting ideas though. I do have a scene in mind today so hopefully I should be able to write something.

[Lexie]

Having to grab minutes while I can - falling behind badly on this one!

[Kath]

After some chopping, moving and adding (I've altered the time-line so I'm dizzy!) I've still ended up 852 words up.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Kath wrote: "After some chopping, moving and adding (I've altered the time-line so I'm dizzy!) I've still ended up 852 words up."

Not sure if you're writing or cooking!

[Kath]

Cooking the books!

[M.T.]

Mwah hahargh! Like it. I have managed 2,150 or so over the course of yesterday and today! Booyacka!

[Marc]

2100 word short story on schizophrenia after that fine BBC documentary earlier this week

[Pam]

Struggling with creating a transparent graphic big enough to be a title page and a test ebook to see what it looks like. They keep coming out too small. I'm trying to do it this way because the text of the title page is split between 'pages' on the ereader if I put it in text (I have a small logo at the foot of the page as well). It's these graphic things that confound me; it's not my forte.

[An]

Pam wrote: "Struggling with creating a transparent graphic big enough to be a title page and a test ebook to see what it looks like. They keep coming out too small. I'm trying to do it this way because the tex..."
Pam try to keep the amazon reccommended ratio 1:1,6 and having about 1500 pixels short side, not more. That should function well.

[Lexie]

Quota reached - for last Friday, though. Might manage to get some of today's done, along with marking, if I can get these accounts out of the way. Numbers are not my scene.
Folk song finished again, though: might get that sent off today.

[Tim]

Had a productive ponder in the bath tonight. Scrawled some notes for a prospective new chapter, and then wrote a couple of sides of A5 for the main text.

Got a tentative working title now too: "Insystem".

[Kath]

I wrote 41 new words. I think I've written more on here today! But it's a revision of a revision.

[M.T.]

I had a very busy day yesterday but managed 400 words on the K'Barthan long and about 650 on a K'Barthan actually will be short.

[Lexie]

Had a minor brainwave while walking to Sainsbury's. Then wondered how many other people were wandering round Sainsbury's staring blankly at baked beans while crime novels formed in their heads.

Probably far too many.

[Tim]

Today the pigging Scrivener file won't open. Grrrr.

[Kath]

Heck. That's bad, Tim. I still use Word and I have a friend with Pigging Scrivener who drops my file into that at formatting time.

166 words. It's a final edit before sending to the editor edit, if you see what I mean?

[Tim]

Fortunately I was able to open all the scenes in TextEdit and just drop them into a new framework. But it lost me my writing time (which was shared with computer downtime while I replaced the three-port actuator on my central heating system)

[Pam]

An wrote: "Pam wrote: "Struggling with creating a transparent graphic big enough to be a title page and a test ebook to see what it looks like. They keep coming out too small. I'm trying to do it this way bec..."

OK thanks. I have been off Goodreads so only just saw this and think I've sorted it; saw a recommendation from a woman who's self published loads and used 800x1200. It looked OK in the test after loading onto my old Kindle Keyboard and secondhand Kobo anyway. I'll have a look at the Amazon recommendation thanks.

[Pam]

Tim wrote: "Fortunately I was able to open all the scenes in TextEdit and just drop them into a new framework. But it lost me my writing time (which was shared with computer downtime while I replaced the three..."

Commisserations. I've lost a lot of time this week because the machine is blue screening at least once a day; three times yesterday, so I've been googling and trying to fix. It always seems related to accessing the attached USB backup drives but if I try to force the fault (wanted to see if turning off power saving on them had fixed it) by copying stuff back and forth between them, and deleting files, it all worked fine. Then when I just went to close a file explorer window - BSOD again. Infruriating. I tried replacing the various USB drivers on the different entries but it just says they are all the recommended ones and Update isn't finding anything. This started after it updated to the Creator Update - I've read that there are some problems with this but they rolled out a fix, and the machine does have that fix.