Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread. Showing 1,551-1,600 of 4,252

[M.T.]

I've started writing non fiction too. Funny stories about my Mum and Dad because I can always do that and it really helps keep the other stuff going. Nothing written today. Now is my slot but I have to force my son into a bath at gunpoint (there's no other way he'll go in). My husband is as bad. I was out on Saturday so after McMini had been to football club and got really sweaty, McOther just popped him into clean clothes ... no now he hasn't had a bath for over a week.

Eeeeewww.

And with that lovely image, I will leave you ...

[Alicia]

Non-fiction words count? I wrote a bunch for eldest, who informed me at 2am that a presentation to the company for Latinx employees was to be done today, and could I remind why our children are 'part Mexican,' exactly, so I did write almost enough for a blog post there, and photographed some photographs, thus digitizing them.

Extremely well received, with a cookbook my mother wrote before ingredients for Mexican food were ubiquitous in the States passed around for the attendees.

Took my morning, counts as family history, and I sent it to the three kids for their records.

Just no fiction (unless I got details wrong in the family history).

[Will]

Spent yesterday rehearsing three folk tales/legends for the coming recording session.

Feedback from K is that the endings need more work.

[M.T.]

Final Nano total now I've typed it all up and put it into the Nano validator: 35,114.

I am fucking made up!

That was with a week not writing in the middle. Although I do cheat. Because in the week before Nano starts I write as if it is Nano and then if I have to do something like a family party that I can't get out of, plop the work from those days in . So this time I had 3 days in hand. If I take those out again, it might be 30.

Still made up!

Cheers

MTM

[David]

M.T. wrote: "Final Nano total now I've typed it all up and put it into the Nano validator: 35,114.

I am fucking made up!"

Well done.

[Kath]

Excellent.

[Jim]

congrats, especially given the hassle life chucks casually in your direction

[M.T.]

Thanks folks. Yes I was pleased with that.

[Will]

Got a thousand or so down yesterday. First progress since 21/11, so pleased with that

[M.T.]

Yay! Go Will. I've had to do a blog post today and then I'll be doing a newsletter so I haven't managed much.

Cheers

MTM

[Will]

Finally got this third sci fi romp over 40K, and nearly done into first draft!

[M.T.]

Nice! I've done about 1500 words on the K'Barthan spin off this week which is actually effing amazing considering the week I've had. I'm doing phisio for my knees at the moment so that's another day broken up each week.

Cheers

MTM

[Will]

1500 is good going with all you have going on mary.

Got rogue Pilot into first draft, so it can now go to sleep over Chrstimas before I look at the second draft

[Jim]

most of my writing time has been spent on the blog chronicling why I have no writing time

[Tim]

Hmm. Writing time. Is that a thing?

(wrote 300 words this week!)

[Pam]

Still doing the marathon edit of my book but getting much closer to self publishing it now.

[Alicia]

Finally finished a complicated 3k word scene I started Nov. 21.

Some of the research-intensive ones are hard; and this one had both a chronology and a geographical spine to be figured out and included - in a place in India I haven't visited personally (will, some day), and which had to be integrated with complicated emotions.

Sometimes I think I'm writing a Broadway musical.

Then I forgot it immediately, went halfway around the world, and seamlessly started another scene with a different main character.

It's a crazy way to write, but when I'm done with something, I'm done with it.

[M.T.]

Go Pam and Alicia. Haven't done much but feel more hopeful about achieving something next year.

[Kath]

Yesterday, 1068. Off to see if I can keep up the New Year totals!

[Tim]

2018. Day 1. Blew that resolution!

[Andrew]

I aimed for 1,000 words a day last year. I finished December 2017 on about 175,000, so just under 500 words a day average.

Trying to beat it this year, but yesterday was mostly spent traveling back to London after New Year with the parents, so I'll need to do at least 2,000 today...

[Tim]

My aim is for 250. But I know how little free time I have . . .

[Benjamin]

I'm beginning to get back up to speed on my current manuscript - only 800 words yesterday, but a fair bit of that was restructuring earlier chapters.

[Will]

I'm taking a few weeks break to try and get to grips with some marketing. Then back to editing.

[David]

Over the break I decided the 1st draft I was about halfway through had a major flaw, so it has dropped back down the list for a rethink.

Started another 1st draft this morning - 1037 words, not too shabby.

[Kath]

919 today. Happy with that as I had some reviews to catch up with.

[Andrew]

I managed 3,150 over a quiet period in the late morning and lunch. Translation tends to work a bit quicker for me than writing my own stuff, but even so I'm very pleased indeed.

[Alicia]

Andrew wrote: "I managed 3,150 over a quiet period in the late morning and lunch. Translation tends to work a bit quicker for me than writing my own stuff, but even so I'm very pleased indeed."

Congratulations - everyone is back to writing.

I spent some time yesterday doing the final edit for polish on a chapter (around 8K words) I'm getting ready for my beta reader. She only gets what I consider finished work - and has an eagle eye which is invaluable. Another chapter today, and I will be up-to-date with the final edits.

But my process, which usually includes this nitpicky editing stage, used to happen after each scene, while it was still fresh, and I'm going back to that method. Other people need distance - I need to not have lost it all out of my slippery brain.

Having to remember all those details was excruciatingly painful, not helpful - for me. To each her own.

[M.T.]

Wow look at you lot. It's still holidays for me so no writing until next week.

Cheers

MTM

[Kath]

1207 today. It adds up, doesn't it?

[M.T.]

I'm aiming for a 20 minute slot every weekday. That should net me anything from 100 - 1000 words, depending how much I've thought about it beforehand. This year I'm going to try and plan my time more closely. The idea is to do a little bit of everything each day and I'm going to try and use the kitchen pinger to time each slot. I have to accept that I'm unlikely to complete any of the tasks required in the time available each day - everything will take at least three 'days' therefore sprinting is not an option - I'll just keep chipping away at each thing until it's done.

Happy New Year,

Cheers

MTM

[Tim]

That sounds like a good plan.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Might as well move to Chipping Sodbury then Mary!

[Kath]

587 today - squashed in between cake club and flower arranging.

[Kath]

With a tickly throat and other associated symptoms, I'd assumed I wouldn't write today, but I've just got 621 words under my belt. Reading now! Someone else's words.

[Will]

No writing for me for a week - my recording studio time has come up, so I need to rehearse the poetry and storytelling this week.

[M.T.]

Gingerlily - The other Stroopwafel Sister! wrote: "Might as well move to Chipping Sodbury then Mary!"

Or Sodding Chipbury. ;-)

[M.T.]

Will wrote: "No writing for me for a week - my recording studio time has come up, so I need to rehearse the poetry and storytelling this week."

Ooo good luck with that Will.

[Jim]

Will wrote: "No writing for me for a week - my recording studio time has come up, so I need to rehearse the poetry and storytelling this week."

hope it goes well Will

[M.T.]

Kath wrote: "With a tickly throat and other associated symptoms, I'd assumed I wouldn't write today, but I've just got 621 words under my belt. Reading now! Someone else's words."

Sorry to hear about the throat et al but nice going on the writing.

[Will]

I'm hoping to get an accompanying book, an audio book and a cd out of the time

[Kath]

A mere 398 today but I'm still wiped out - more reading and drinking of tea is called for, I think.

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "A mere 398 today but I'm still wiped out - more reading and drinking of tea is called for, I think."

a spot of something in the tea might help ;-)

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Or a spot of tea in the something, even better

[M.T.]

Yeh hot toddy time Kath. Good stuff Will, hope it works. I have done a long blog post today, I dunno how long, about 1k? And a newsletter which was a 700 word story, basically.

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/01/06/to...

Cheers

MTM

[Kath]

784 today. I'm sneaking up on it...

[Alicia]

Yesterday finished an editing job which was 23K - two whole chapters. Now I can format them for my beta reader; she'll get back to me when she can. Meanwhile, I finish and edit the next chapter...

Slow but sure, as long as I have any say in it.

After all my extra physical problems this year, my brain was so hard to kickstart I thought I had lost it; thank God it still works!

I fear losing my mind more than anything. Too old to hunt for it like an Easter egg.

[M.T.]

I had a day off today, gardening, but Go Kath and Go Alicia!

[Will]

Finalised the storytelling set today, with a nice funny Lancashire folk story I found in an Alan Garner collection.

There will definitely be a book as well as the audio. I'll just play the demo into some speech recognition software and then clean up all the misspellings

[Jim]

Will wrote: "Finalised the storytelling set today, with a nice funny Lancashire folk story I found in an Alan Garner collection.

There will definitely be a book as well as the audio. I'll just play the demo into some speech recognition software and then clean up all the misspellings ..."

if it's a Lancashire folk tale wit proper accent then happen yer poncy software might run into trouble :-)