Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread. Showing 2,001-2,050 of 4,252

[Benjamin]

I'm taking a day off actual writing to try asking bloggers for reviews. Not the most fun, but probably needs doing.

[Will]

I'm writing blog posts today, so no real progress expected

[Jim]

Will wrote: "I'm writing blog posts today, so no real progress expected"

ah, Art for Art's sake :-)

[Will]

I'd rather have money for gods' sake!

(I've been playing my Supertramp vinyl over the weekend)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I thought that was 10CC?

[Will]

You spotted the deliberate mistake! Curses.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I'm smart, I am ;)

[Jim]

I've just done a 1000 word article.
I'm now an expert on various aspects of game birds and brexit :-)

[Kath]

Nothing! Had a day out to Whitby instead. Must write tomorrow.

[Benjamin]

Only 300 words yesterday, but I keep getting notes from my editor that need dealing with.

[Will]

Sigh. Only a few days in to the release of my sci fi and it's had a troll review on .com already.

That's annoying.

[Kath]

Don't you think that a man who complains about your writing in words such as aboit, notthing, oganising, iinteresting, sciene fiction, Hornblowwer, workk, publisheed and floggs has need of emergency treatment for a self-inflicted bullet wound to the foot?

[Will]

That's a very good point! But would the americans notice the strange spellings?

[Jim]

quietly putting out of his misery!

[Kath]

They can scarecely miss these! It's not just honour or grey, which they may not not recognise as correct in the UK context - but aboit? People will draw the conculsion I did. An illiterate has no leg to stand on criticising a book - all that in one review! And that's assuming he's trying to stand on the leg without the holed foot!

[M.T.]

Kath wrote: "They can scarecely miss these! It's not just honour or grey, which they may not not recognise as correct in the UK context - but aboit? People will draw the conculsion I did. An illiterate has no l..."

True. And if you read his other posts, which you can, although he’s anonymous, there are a lot of one and two star tirades and he clearly is making a bit of a thing about ‘slamming’ books. He sounds like a 14 year old with an inflated sense of his own self worth and intellectual excellence.

[M.T.]

On another note, for the most part, I am still sorting out Mum and Dad’s hedge (aaaaargh ffs) but as it’s my birthday today I decided that for two hours, at least, it was fuck em all day and I turned my attention to Space Dustmen. I’m following a plotting technique that’s worked quite well for me and am doing a list of all the scenes that I know will be in there - and writing snippets of each one as I do if and when they occur to me.

It was great fun and I felt full of enthusiasm even though people have been pestering me all day by phone. For example ...

Mum and Dad’s shower has broken again, the garage had to take my credit card details to refund me for the warranty repair they thought wasn’t on warranty but is which I’m happy with. Then the shop that sold me an iPad for my birthday told me that they’d sold me the wrong insurance so I had to go in and have it refunded and then pay extra for the iPad Pro insurance. Have to have insurance. Have said no the last three times and smashed the electrical components concerned within weeks on each occasion.

Then the bloke coming to quote for Mum and Dad’s fence had to speak to me by phone because I couldn’t be there to see him and Mum is no longer capable of doing it. Now I have to agree a boundary with the neighbour so we can work out where the fence is going to go because no-one who has come to quote for me will do the work unless we have - except for his contractor.

Jeez it’s tricky.

Ho hum.

Cheers

MTM

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Have a look at your birthday thread for cake and congrats xx

[Will]

Thanks for the support, guys.

Mary, K has watched a lot of those 'neighbours from hell' programs. No wonder that the contractors are all running scared about fences

[M.T.]

Yeh, I can imagine. I’ve been looking up stuff on the government deeds site. Neither house has deeds in the public domain. I thought we had ours but neither parent is compos enough to be able to tell me.

There was an agreement between my parents and the Original owners but the house changed hands several times and I think it’s been lost so I’ll have to renegotiate it again.

Cheers

MTM

[Kath]

Back on track (me and the thread) I wrote just over a thousand today.

[Benjamin]

Five hundred or so yesterday for me.

How very irritating, Will - though I've always heard one bad review makes the good ones get taken more seriously?

Mary, are they not lodged on the Land Registry? That's quite rare nowadays - must be very frustrating to deal with.

[Will]

I've done a thousand for each of the last 2 days. Back in the saddle.

[M.T.]

Hoping that the end is in sight with the neighbour troubles and I will be able to start writing again soon. Have a short to write for Christmas Lites by August so am hoping to get going on that over the last half of the term.

Cheers

MTM

[Jim]

M.T. wrote: "Hoping that the end is in sight with the neighbour troubles and I will be able to start writing again soon. Have a short to write for Christmas Lites by August so am hoping to get going on that ove..."

publish your letters :-)

[Alicia]

Feeling somewhat more myself. After signing the contract to put our house on the market yesterday, I assembled four public posts of about 1000 words each for my Patreon, and am now scheduled through the middle of July.

I say assembled, because, even though I did a fair bit of editing and condensing, these posts are about the backstage process of producing the current novel, and are intended for those who are curious, not readers in general. I keep extensive journals as I plot and write and polish, so it was a matter of selecting bits that might be of interest.

But it's still more writing than I've done in a month.

Maybe it's a good augury.

[Jim]

I did an article on brexit and game birds the other day and another on mid summer grassland management today.
Sadly they'll probably make me more money than any one of my books will this year :-(

[Kath]

Only written 250 in the last two days. I've been catching up with life!
Jim! Are you supposed to make money writing books? Who'd a thawt it?

[✿Claire✿]

I've written a couple hundred more words on my essay today. Got three to finish by next friday plus a couple of other bits and pieces. And then I can get writing fun stuff again!!

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "Only written 250 in the last two days. I've been catching up with life!
Jim! Are you supposed to make money writing books? Who'd a thawt it?"

there is a school of thought that suggests writing books and selling them is a commercial activity.
However if you do this, you've then 'sold out'.
The only way to be an authentic artist is to not make money. it appears to be their defining feature :-)

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

There's that whole "starving in a draughty garret" thing, if you want to be taken seriously...

[M.T.]

I wrote stuff ( jumps up and down ) I wrote stuff ... and it was fun. ;-)

[Will]

Jim wrote: "Kath wrote: "Only written 250 in the last two days. I've been catching up with life!
Jim! Are you supposed to make money writing books? Who'd a thawt it?"

there is a school of thought that sugges..."

I'm an artist! I'm an artist! (and not a p*ss artist, either)

[Jim]

Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "There's that whole "starving in a draughty garret" thing, if you want to be taken seriously..."

not that seriously
I volunteer a bit at the local foodbank, it would look bad if I were too hungry looking

[Jim]

Will wrote: "I'm an artist! I'm an artist! (and not a p*ss artist, either) t..."

so now you get to sneer at all those who sold out and just do inferior hack work for money ;-)

[Will]

That's another 600 down today.

[M.T.]

I haven’t worked out to count them on the new iPad but I suspect it’s about 200.

[Patti (baconater)]

I spent quite a bit of time in the group yesterday.

Do those count?

[Alicia]

Yes, they count. And I put up 800 words in a new blog post.

Not fiction. Not really.

[Bernie]

Today I mostly wrote my diary and just caught up admin that I do for my various author groups. Most importantly I finished editing a new book that a new author had paid me in advance for. Don't know when I'll ever get time to promote my own books, but then, they're all very old anyway.

[Kath]

Seven hundred and something. Then I got distracted by the urgent desire to make biscuits.

[M.T.]

Nom nom ... 600 and something today, I think, which is peachy because it's a weekend. Not bad because it was mainly editing, bringing my June total to 3,177 on Traffic but 1,937 of new stuff on Space Dustmen. Also have a scene to write for Traffic but have got waylaid with another one.

And I've sorted the hedge so that will probably rise as I spend my spare time doing something other than arguing with my Mum and Dad's neighbour!

Alicia, thanks for the articles. Definitely of interest!

Cheers

MTM

[Will]

Another 1600 yesterday. The solicitor's nonsense had me too stressed to do any real work, so I wrote nonsense instead

[Benjamin]

1050 yesterday, which was a nice change.

[Kath]

Keep forgetting to update this. Today, 1194. Yesterday, 1453. Running total 17,074. Big smiley!

[Alicia]

M.T. wrote: "Alicia, thanks for the articles. Definitely of interest!
..."

I've book-marked it for me, as well. Did seem useful.

[Kath]

1100 and a sniff.

[M.T.]

Nothing much but I’ve been doing more sorting out about space dustmen. I have some nice bits of conversation popping up here and there now. Also need to think of a story for Christmas Lites. That has to be done by August.

Cheers

MTM

[Benjamin]

500 yesterday, which is about normal for me right now.

[M.T.]

It’s 500 words that weren’t there the day before! Nice going. Didn’t write anything today but got a picture of a big river from a bridge which I need for a book cover!

Cheers

MTM