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Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread.
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May 27, 2017 10:45AM
Saved me a job. I've been trying to do a blog post about marketing but it's really hard because there's so much to say!
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Gingerlily - Mistress Lantern wrote: "And he does gin on...;)
( That should have said "go on",)"
being a poet he's far more concise than a novelist, indeed compared to that Jim Webster chap his writings are almost curt ;-)
Curt? Well maybe in contrast to George R R Martin....
Tallis provides readers with elegant little stories, even his longest rarely exceed three thousand words. It's just that there are an awful lot of them :-)
Stories or readers....?
hopefully it'll pick up buyers as well :-)
Just over a thousand written today. Quietly pleased!
about 2.3k the short is nearly finished.
Finished a nice little scene of 730 words and polished it up to reasonable standards; I have the Mac robot voice read it to me. Catches all kinds of weird things, as well as flow problems.If the robot can read it, I've put the punctuation into the right spots. Mostly.
Kath wrote: "A thousand again. It's coming!"Sounds like a baby is on the way!
Yay go Kath and Alicia. 433 today but I cannot believe I have nearly come to the end of something. ;-)
Oh just made that 1071. Better go to bed now though.
Another finished scene, 844 words - if I get things set up right, it only takes a day or two to write a scene. My new method is working. I'm almost afraid. This finished the third chapter in the new book - only 17 to go.
Alicia wrote: "Another finished scene, 844 words - if I get things set up right, it only takes a day or two to write a scene. My new method is working. I'm almost afraid. This finished the third chapter in the ..."
Brilliant news, Alicia!
Thank you, Elizabeth. All those months with my brain in zombieland from drugs - this feels much better.It's not as if I was doing these in my subconscious, as they are, within their marks, completely new to me (I know WHERE a scene needs to go, but not HOW, until I write it).
I don't want to stop writing and do things such as paperwork, as there's still not much energy, and I LIKE writing.
Alicia wrote: "Thank you, Elizabeth. All those months with my brain in zombieland from drugs - this feels much better.It's not as if I was doing these in my subconscious, as they are, within their marks, comple..."
x : )
So chuffed Alicia.I did about 1,000 words today and inched over the 11k mark on the short. We're just in the last 1000 or so now.
Good job, MT. It feels so good, doesn't it?I didn't write any text today, but set up a complicated scene to write this evening or tomorrow - once it's in that state, it's remarkably easier to write than if I don't organize it first, so that's my new system. It's as if my mind can start to think how once it has all the whats in place. Art gets added on top of that - and we're done!
I wrote loads in emails and blog posts but as to actual authoriness - 100 words. I wrote a drabble.
Alicia wrote: "Good job, MT. It feels so good, doesn't it?I didn't write any text today, but set up a complicated scene to write this evening or tomorrow - once it's in that state, it's remarkably easier to wri..."
It certainly does. What you are doing, working out more of what's happening in each scene before you write it up, is what I am trying to learn to do.
And Kath, a Drabble is a Drabble! :-)
M.T. wrote: " working out more of what's happening in each scene before you write it up, is what I am trying to learn to do. ..."I've made a series of worksheets for myself, so I gather things systematically. I must have a complete set, as I haven't added anything in years.
But I'm an extreme plotter. I don't know if my system would work for other people who aren't. Steel scaffolding - and then I get the fun of writing, knowing everything will connect.
Just dropping this in here, in case any of you feel the urge to squeeze out 200 words or so...https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Kath wrote: "1116 today. :)"Kath wrote: "1041. Nearly at 50k now. :)"
Keep it up - great going.
There'll be a hiatus for a a week or so but I hope to pick it up and run with it after my few days' break.
Blimey Kath! You're on a roll! Just failed to finish the short in a month, but considering the kind of month it's been I'm well chuffed that it's nearly done.
1115. I am on a roll, aren't I? It'll stop now, for a while, but I hope I can get back on the wagon next week.
Marvelous - you are on a roll, and I must do my best to imitate you.The mind would not focus yesterday, until I realized I'm writing my third character pov, and she's the villain, and I have to work a little harder to get into her pov. Which occurs when I remember she's part of me, too, even if those are the parts I mostly suppress.
Keep up the good example, and hope you get back to writing quickly after your distraction.
My next sci fi romp is coming to its close, with an episode of Interstellar Jehova's Witnesses. Plus ca change, plus la meme chose, as someone nearly said once
Today I wrote 700 words or so. But the two most important ones were 'the end'. One 13k short complete ... in a month. I'm happy. But I wish the rest could be that easy.
M.T. wrote: "Today I wrote 700 words or so. But the two most important ones were 'the end'. One 13k short complete ... in a month. I'm happy. But I wish the rest could be that easy."congrats :-)
Especially as it hasn't been a particularly good month for you writing
Echoing Kath, well done Mary! Especialy with the issues you have had this month, that's great.
Bless you you lovely folks. Thanks. I'm now wondering if I should start doing a series of shorts focussing on things that happened to The Pan of Hamgee in the five years leading up to Few Are Chosen. I think the actual moment of blacklisting would be a bit dark but there is a lot of potential for events as a minion working for Big Merv. And he joins Big Merv at least a year before the books start because he's been a regular for over a year at The Parrot but meets Ada for the first time on the day Big Merv recruits him. Plenty of time for say, five 13k shorts. Which would give us a 65k 'box set'. It's an idea.Anyway, I have to go and read a couple of 60 page pdfs about dementia and social/health care now.
Toodles! ;-)
I reckon the shorts would be a great idea for you, Mary.I've just typed The End on this sci fi story. Draft one done.
Will wrote: "I reckon the shorts would be a great idea for you, Mary.I've just typed The End on this sci fi story. Draft one done."
Yep if I could manage if i think it would. Congratulations on your new story .
Cheers
MTM
I got back from my hols with a few snaps on my Kindle Fire and a friend looked at one and said "Book cover!" Well, blow me, it could be. So I got thinking. Last night I did a bit of research and today I've written 2861 words of a new short story. Genre, horror.A bit chuffed, I am!
Thanks, Alicia. There's almost an adrenaline rush with a new story, perhaps more so with a short, as the end is in sight right from the beginning!
Only if you write fast! Glad it's that for you. Hope you get many more.I've had that happen once - when writing a short SF story that's on my site under Free Fiction called The House of The Vord. It twisted and squirmed as I pinned it down, but came out in one piece one day. I don't dare touch it.
Not sure I can do that in general - but there's probably no point in writing a short until you can see where it should end.
It's a form that will get more practice if I ever get the time - I think I've written fewer than ten in my lifetime.
Another 2280 today. It's flying. Shame it's only going to be a relatively short flight but we're at 5141 at the moment.
Great job Kath. Nothing for a while but there's a definite hint of something on the new series ... and I will have a look at the Long short as well. Just trying to think of cover ideas now. Also slightly worried that my editor has gone a.w.o.l. She's not replied to either of the emails I sent her last week. I hope she hasn't decided to stand down.
Cheers
MTM
Ah no just having a really stressy week with her electricity supplier. The minute I said that an email arrived from her. Cheers
MTM
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