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Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread.
Sent off a completed short for this year’s Christmas Lites anthology as well. OK so it’s Christmas Lites both times but I’ll have published something two years running. Feeling properly smug. There are now three shorts, one of which is 9.96k but I can make it 13k easily. There’s another in the pipeline, and the novel is still moving on, although I think some of the changes of heart are happening a bit fast so I will have to review the time line. I haven’t touched the non-fiction in months so I must, at some point, but I keep saving it for days when I’m less inspired as it’s a great kickstarter. But the uninspired days aren’t coming as often as they were.So yeh, all round mood; stoked.
It's my own fault, since I planned to be really productive this summer; so of course Fate intervened and killed my laptop.Luckily managed to recover the harddrive - but I'm only just getting back to my stories after four weeks (a whole month!) and everything looks so different now I've been away so long... and I have what looks to be about 7000 words in handwritten notes to type up...
Nooooo! That sounds like a monumental pain in the arse. Hope you get it all ship shape and back to how you like it soon. Congratulations on the 7k anyway! ;-)Cheers
MTM
M.T. wrote: "Sent off a completed short for this year’s Christmas Lites anthology as well. OK so it’s Christmas Lites both times but I’ll have published something two years running. Feeling properly smug. There..."Yay, M.T.!
1587 today and a big THE END under the first draft. Now the work starts!
Thanks. Starting from the beginning again tomorrow!
Bit of an accident around the end of last week, so I'm only really just back on the computer, Hence nothing done.
Added another 1383 today so total now at 76668. It won't stay at that but it's unlikely to progress at this rate for much longer.
Holy shizz! 2,100 today. Probably won’t have a good run at it again again until Sat though.
Will wrote: "Bit of an accident around the end of last week, so I'm only really just back on the computer, Hence nothing done."Hope all is well.
Well done, Kath and M. T.I'm hoping to get at least 1k done today. Fingers crossed.
Only 200 yesterday, but I'm returning to an old project and needing to get in the right frame of mind.
M.T. wrote: "Will wrote: "Bit of an accident around the end of last week, so I'm only really just back on the computer, Hence nothing done."Hope all is well."
Actually had a bad fall inside the house onto the edges of two very firm solid steps. Hairline fractures of 2 ribs, my right upper arm and extensive bruising... ouch, more or less, I said.
Nasty. I've reached this monumental age without ever having a fracture (what have I said and were The Fates listening?) but I'm finding out how hard it is to type with a plaster on my right index finger! Must be so much worse for you.
203. Not bad for an editing day. Some words out but a few more words in.
Kath wrote: "203. Not bad for an editing day. Some words out but a few more words in."I've noticed how editing what I hope is the final draft can make it longer :-)
Jim wrote: "Kath wrote: "203. Not bad for an editing day. Some words out but a few more words in."I've noticed how editing what I hope is the final draft can make it longer :-)"
Tell me about it! I’ll hack out 30k and end up putting 50k back.
Kath wrote: "Nasty. I've reached this monumental age without ever having a fracture (what have I said and were The Fates listening?) but I'm finding out how hard it is to type with a plaster on my right index f..."
Typing with a plaster on is well nigh impossible!
Will wrote: "M.T. wrote: "Will wrote: "Bit of an accident around the end of last week, so I'm only really just back on the computer, Hence nothing done."
Hope all is well."
Actually had a bad fall inside the ..."
Eeesh I cracked some ribs once, you have my abject sympathy. So painful.
Managed about 200 words yesterday but it was tidying up the previous day’s scene and it was visit the parents day so I only had my minimum 10 mins. Just about to do my 10 mins for today. Novel length W.I.P. has now hit 81k. It’s nowhere near finished, indeed, it appears to be less than half way through. How does this happen? I made a plan and everything but now Lord Vernon has popped up and it’s all going batshit crazy. I suspect it’s going to be two books... sighs and rolls eyes ... possibly three.
Still at least that means that when it’s done my back catalogue will suddenly leap from 6 to 9 books. That’s handy. Then there’ll be the six shorts - I’m told 12 ‘books’ is critical mass but most books seem to be about 40k so I reckon the set of six shorts I’m working on may count as ‘two’ and then there’s the new series which I haven’t done much on, other than buying an air fix Catalina flying boat to make because I think the hero’s ship looks a bit like it.
Hmm ... it’s all go.
Mary, that's the best excuse for buying an Airfix kit I've ever heard. I intend to steal it for my own use....
I'm impressed as well :-)Although one of my books was inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFvU...
Edited up another 469 words. Off to arrange flowers now!
Kath wrote: "Edited up another 469 words. Off to arrange flowers now!"Blimey it’s all go!
Will wrote: "Mary, that's the best excuse for buying an Airfix kit I've ever heard.
I intend to steal it for my own use...."
The bastard thing’s not big enough! It’s only about 20cm by 30cm and McMini’s 1:24 Spitfire arrived at the same time. It’s absolutely fucking enormous. Wingspan of about 40cm. What I really wanted was a 1:42 flying boat which would be similarly gargantuan but they don’t seem to make them.
Jim wrote: "I'm impressed as well :-)
Although one of my books was inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epFvU..."
Love that song, it’s in my K’Barthan playlist, on the borderline between the run like hell section pertaining to The Pan of Hamgee and the Lord Vernon section.
Just four hundred today.
612 added today and I'm off out to tidy the greenhouse.
Go Kath! 617 here which I’m very surprised about because it was editing. Just going to have a quick shower now and sort out the McMini’s tea.Cheers
MTM
Mine was editing too! Cracking on over the next couple of days as my editor has a slot free unexpectedly. Want to make on while the chance is there.
My diary. I've had 2 authors land on my desk this week and so far have only read their work. I think I am getting too old for this.
952 and the book is off to the editor! total of 78,904 words.
Wow well done Kath. None for me today but I found a Roman coin which was nice.
760 on the non fiction. I haven’t done any work on it in a while so thought I ought to add some.
So ... a propos of nothing much. Since I got my finger out of my arse in late June and started trying to do 10 minutes a day, I reckon I've written 50,505 words. Only about 14k of them were written over August but it has been holidays so it has been, literally, 10 minute slots. Also I have to do a proper blog post soon and my newsletter. I might see if I can give September a bit of a push start by doing half an hour now though.Cheers
MTM
Well done, Mary!I've just got a short story back from my editor so I'm currently moving chapters about into a more rational order! THAT'S what I can't do - rational!
Did 650 or thereabouts today. Bit annoyed with myself that my rate of output is slowing up but as it gets more complicated the long one is getting trickier. I need one of those days where I sit and look at the running order. I have a couple of scenes unwritten that I can do, then I may have to jig it about a bit and leave it on the back burner while I got onto short number four.Cheers
MTM
Kath wrote: "Well done, Mary!I've just got a short story back from my editor so I'm currently moving chapters about into a more rational order! THAT'S what I can't do - rational!"
In other words, I can’t do the rational bit either! ;-)
M.T. wrote: "Kath wrote: "Well done, Mary!I've just got a short story back from my editor so I'm currently moving chapters about into a more rational order! THAT'S what I can't do - rational!"
In other words,..."
Haha! What are we like? Answers on a postcard!
Yep. On the up side, I wrote some more stuff today and worked out how I can fit short number four in with the novel I’m currently writing. Quite pleased about that. About 700 in all, I think.
No real numerical progress but some words out, some words in and I'm nearly there with this short story.
Kath wrote: "No real numerical progress but some words out, some words in and I'm nearly there with this short story."Blimey Kath, you’re motoring!
M.T. wrote: "Blog post today: https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/09/08/ju..."Interesting post philosophically and otherwise. I never knew there was so much complication to metal detection.
Just finished reformatting the book for yet another read through .... groan. Surely I've caught all the minor continuity errors and repeated words used too close to each other by now ......
Pam wrote: "Just finished reformatting the book for yet another read through .... groan. Surely I've caught all the minor continuity errors and repeated words used too close to each other by now ......"The law of writing says that the first thing you will see upon pressing publish is a typo! I hear you. I always rest it a bit between goes.
Me too! Just written a blurb. That will go through several versions of its 81 words before I'm happy with it.
Yay, that'll be 81 of the hardest words to write! I've done 466 and spent over an hour searching for a document about one of my forebears for tripwires.Cheers
MTM
It’s visit the parents day and I’ve managed 20 mins and 541 words before getting out of bed! That’ll be it for the day but I’m dead chuffed.Cheers
MTM
Nothing written for ages, but I did attend the Amazon Author event, which was long on marketing (some good stuff) and even longer on KDP taking over CreateSpace.
Ah so you can give us the inside track on that Will?
Yeh, I’d be interested to hear what they say about that.BTW 1032 today. Woot.
On a roll, 1,155 today and could have done more there's just too much other stuff to do first! Have to write a blog post now.Cheers
MTM
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MTM