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Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread.
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Patti (baconater)
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Dec 29, 2016 02:39AM
What's the Winston Churchill thing?
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When he took up painting he was standing in front of a blank canvas one day completely intimidated by it and by the idea of starting something. Lady Someoneorother came past, took a wallop of paint on a paintbrush and splatted it across the canvas. There you are, she said, you can start now - and he could. Therefore I have to write some random rubbish just to get the next book going.
Oh, that's a cool story. Reminds me of a book I've done with a few classes.The Dot
Perhaps the book was inspired by the Churchill story.
Sweet looking book! And the theory certainly works.
It's a lovely book. And I've got lots of lovely corridor displays out of it over the years. ;)
Back a bit I wrote a few scenes of a murder, got to where the police got involved then couldn't get any further. No reason for her to die no matter how I tried... I am not a writer! too cardboard by far... but reader, well I get right into the yarn.
I find sometimes the problem is that I've planned too much, too carefully. I look at the plan and my brain says 'Well, if you've said all that happens in nice concise notes, why bother doing all the flowery stuff round it?' and seizes up.
Pat (Scorpio) wrote: "Back a bit I wrote a few scenes of a murder, got to where the police got involved then couldn't get any further. No reason for her to die no matter how I tried... I am not a writer! too cardboard ..."
start with the reason for somebody to die, then work backwards to see how they created the reason and work forwards to find out how they died and what happened next :-)
McMini's room turned out to have carpet moth, so everything out, hoover into all the corners and everything back ... only took all day!Probably won't be much writing now until next Friday.
Cheers
MTM
Lexie wrote: "When he took up painting he was standing in front of a blank canvas one day completely intimidated by it and by the idea of starting something. Lady Someoneorother came past, took a wallop of paint..."That's pretty much what I have to do. I write myself into the story and after about 40 - 60k, I usually find that I'm in the middle of book 2 and that I need to go back and write book 1. Phnark. Another reason to write shorts.
Cheers
MTM
PS sorry the previous post was a bit of a non sequitur - I missed this whole page earlier.
I think carpet moth is pretty much always a non-sequitur, along with degu poo in a Brownie uniform hood.
Degu poo? Dog poo autocorrected?
Degus - related to guinea pigs, from Chile, highly intelligent, very nosy, able to ping small pellets of poo some considerable distance when dissatisfied.
Ah I was somehow thinking something along the lines of deja vu - 'poo already seen'?
We're just glad horses can't do the same thing. At least these pellets are small and dry and scentless!
Jim wrote: "Pat (Scorpio) wrote: "Back a bit I wrote a few scenes of a murder, got to where the police got involved then couldn't get any further. No reason for her to die no matter how I tried... I am not a ..."
Thanks Jim, but it still doesn't bring my writing 'alive'.
I am just not a writer and have to accept the fact.
Lexie wrote: "We're just glad horses can't do the same thing. At least these pellets are small and dry and scentless!"Keep them away from GL or they'll end up in ice cream.
Lexie wrote: "Degus - related to guinea pigs, from Chile, highly intelligent, very nosy, able to ping small pellets of poo some considerable distance when dissatisfied."Sounds like brownie camp has come a long way since my day. What were you doing in Peru with the brownies? Sorry ... or even Chile
I don't put poo in ice cream. I'm not a coprophiliac!
1357 words today and I've pushed the novella's total to 22,065. I hope to start the new year as I ended the old - with a bit of writing!
The clock starts ticking tomorrow on my new one but I still don't have my head round it - and the new year looks awfully busy!
I've done 300 words since 29th. Well ... it's 300 words that weren't there before. ;-) Had to down tools to do my tax return today.Nearly there now.
Only 283 today, added in an edit of the words I wrote over the last couple of sessions. Back to work properly tomorrow!
Just got to do my how much did I earn up to now so that next year's tax return is less daunting.
Done my day's ration and started the new book - probably won't get more done today as we're off out to be fed. But the ground is broken - now all I have to do is keep it going! 1,765.
Oh, excellent! I've done 1339 and I'm stopping there for the day. Got some reading I want to do!
So far done 500 words I hope to sell to an editor, emailed them to him talk to him tomorrow :-)
Still not quite got my writing head on (just tidying up last month's 3D project ready to submit and hopefully make me millions, bwahahahah ecksetra)Have got an opening line for a new Flick novel, which made me go "oooh...eek!" No idea where it'll lead, which is rather exciting! Once the 3D thing is turned in, I can start planning and writing . . .
Yay for 3D project! This time next year, Rodney...
Nice going everyone. I have put my book into scriviner, and I have to say, the planning thing on there is brilliant; short summary of each chapter laid out like index cards and you can add them and move them around. Quite looking forward to resuming writing. Only two days to go. ;-)Cheers
MTM
Finished my day's writing with another 1637 words. The novella is now 25,324 words long which is more than I expected!
Just 441 today but I was reading through and adding as I went.
Done my quota for the last couple of days. Coming to the end of my carefully planned opening chapters, though, so might need some time off to plan.
I've found myself elected chairman of our local writers group, so I really ought to write something before the next meeting! The 3D project is going in tomorrow, come hell or high water (just rendering out the promo images now before packaging it all up.Oh and there's new Silent Witness on telly (if you're on FB, you've probably seen what my project is!)
Are you doing the 3D blood and gore as well???
I hate acronyms.What's BYO?
Boris Yeltsin Operation
640. Still editing. Then I've got a couple more chapters to write.
Tim wrote: "Bring Your Own (usually bottles . . .)"Oh jeez. Of course it is!
Well, the project is submitted, now it's just a waiting game (and on with the next . . .) Won't say how many o'clocks I stayed up to get it done, but next door clomping down the stairs at 8am, waking me up, was not amusing!
730. Novella now standing at 27,135 - and counting. I know it's the quality not the quantity that counts, but it's good to see it moving forward.
Managed 3 ½ pages of hand written A5 today. Dunno what that is in words, but it must be a few hundred :)
Oh, that reminds me, nearly a thousand (5 short) yesterday and over 500 today. Must be several hundred, Tim. Depends on the size of your squiggles.
Busy people! I've fallen behind already.
editing rather than writing, but I've probably added nearly 1000 words today
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