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Sep 05, 2020 01:29PM
170 words two days ago. Brain has been on vacation - wish it would take me along!
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Alicia wrote: "170 words two days ago. Brain has been on vacation - wish it would take me along!"Nice going. Hope the brain stays home for a while now.
Cheers
MTM
500 words on Saturday, 600 yesterday and 1,000 today. I’m at the filling in the blanks stage on this one. May have to stop now though. Have many things to do!Cheers
MTM
I've just been doing blog posts recently, somehow not had time to get anything bigger tackled
Jim wrote: "I've just been doing blog posts recently, somehow not had time to get anything bigger tackled"I’ve felt like that too. Or I have THINGS that I have to do in the only time available for writing. But I needed to escape this week, so I ditched the stuff I should be doing and wrote instead.
Cheers
MTM
Too many wonderful calls and notes today.Tomorrow we can write.
I fought the brain fog today - and won. May have learned some techniques I can use.Result: 1511 word completely finished scene I will polish a bit and be done with (still have to go through Autocrit to catch where I've used the same words and phrases too many times, but that is actually not hard - just takes a bit of time and bloodymindedness).
It's been a long dry spell; hope this one sticks.
Did the extract and sent it round my crit group - now need to get back to the other book.
How's it going everyone? I have finished the second run through of the novel. Now it needs to sit for a bit while I write something else.Wrote a blog post today and a lot of auto responders.
I also have a box set to compile ...
Cheers
MTM
I've spent what time I had free getting the third Maljie collection into Kindle.I'm also going to set it up for paperback as well, and release them both together
Finally, some progress: I may be figuring out how to run this body of mine so I can use it to write:https://liebjabberings.wordpress.com/...
Today I was able to see the whole scene I'm writing, organize it, fill in the holes, and plan it from beginning to end. As a lot of the pieces are already written, assembly shouldn't be too slow, and the new pieces will have an obvious place. It's been weeks, and a very confusing set of symptoms from ldn (low-dose naltrexone) I'm taking to make things better.
Heading to bed with hopes of actually sleeping. 'Night all!
It is! Pats on the back all round everyone! ;-)
And it's done! 1581 finished words, and on to the next one. Just had to become the villain again. And have a few hours of clear head.The editing took its usual long chunk of time - my brain feeds me the same word too many times when I'm writing, and in different contexts. I'm constantly amazed.
But once the writing is over, that's almost soothing - how many times very is a speech tic for a character, or a lazy writer's bad habit, is to be determined. Autocrit counts everything from adverbs to cliches to repeated words and phrases - and I decide what to do with them. Good division of labour.
Anyone here serialized something online?I'm trying to decide whether I want to do that again.
https://liebjabberings.wordpress.com/...
Appreciate comments, even if they're "You're crazy!"
Alicia wrote: "Anyone here serialized something online?I'm trying to decide whether I want to do that again.
https://liebjabberings.wordpress.com/...
Appreciate comments, ev..."
Nice going on the scene. I haven't yet. If I did I'd write it first and release it once a week. No way could I cope with the pressure of writing it as I went along.
Mind you, if you serialise things on line, you have to spend at least twenty times the time commenting amusingly on other people's similar work so their fans come and look at yours. I don't have the time or the energy for that so I haven't. If I get more fans who would be interested, I might try it but at the moment I'm not sure it'd work.
Cheers
MTM
I've serialised novellas as part of a blog tour.Have a blog tour promoting one novella, and each blog post is effectively a chapter of another novella which is then published at the end of the tour.
Does it work?
Hmmmm
Been working on edit of chapters, including trying to get rid of the 'filter' words such as feel/felt, see/saw etc. Plodding through at the moment.
Managed 520 words today on Holy Books. Mostly editing and just getting up to speed so I can work out who is where and who does what tomorrow when I sit down to write it up. Keep plodding Pam! :-)
Pam wrote: "Been working on edit of chapters, including trying to get rid of the 'filter' words such as feel/felt, see/saw etc. Plodding through at the moment."plodding is good, it means you're still going forward :-)
M.T. wrote: "...if you serialise things on line, you have to spend at least twenty times the time commenting amusingly on other people's similar work..."I didn't find that to be the case for the first book in the trilogy - maybe it would have gone better if I had, but it never occurred to me. My comments are useless to most other writers, anyway - kind of out in left field here.
To be clear, I'm NOT writing as I go - with my unreliability, that would be asking for trouble. No, I have over 50 scenes all finished, and a roughly equal number to go, so I can go for a whole year before I'd have to have another new scene. Last time I started with 40, and had the remainder finished by the time I got there. Barely.
It's a math problem, but I just have to have the last one ready when the next to the last one has been published.
I never thought to ask other people who put up the couple of serials I read whether they had a cache ahead of time - because they were saner people who could write a scene/chapter in a week.
What I DID do was to send the completed ms. to copyright registration at the Library of Congress well before I posted the final chapters, and took the serial down very soon after publishing. I don't think there was any overlap.
It's good to also have a time when those who have been following along can purchase the whole ebook on sale if they want a decent copy.
I tried to think like a reader for all those details, and not make readers who accompanied me unhappy.
Next scene is all set up - lets see how long it takes me this time!
I had everything written, 'polished' and edited before I released it as a serial.
Jim wrote: "I had everything written, 'polished' and edited before I released it as a serial."What's the fun of that?
I'm looking for a bit of support while (or for Andrew, whilst) finishing.
I discovered that my normal blog tour could involve me writing 15,000 words so making it a novella didn't take much more effort :-)
Good idea. Extra novellas in your universe without too much extra work.When I'm done with the trilogy, if I think of some, I'll copy you.
Alicia wrote: "Good idea. Extra novellas in your universe without too much extra work.When I'm done with the trilogy, if I think of some, I'll copy you."
It means you publish more often and there's often something new on your amazon page :-)
Yep. Lots of releases and activity is, apparently, the way forward!I just wrote a massive blog post yesterday. :-)
Cheers
MTM
I wrote a massive blog post today and did a couple of thousand words on the WIP during the week, mostly on the train to London on Monday, so that's grand. How's everyone else doing!?
Cheers
MTM
It's one of those days where I hoped to get some writing done but work and faffing about getting stuff ready for next week have screwed it totally
Bad week for sleeping - and I'm having brain fog problems.Hoping to get some done today.
There've been thousands of words written this week, just not fiction. The political climate is tense, and it is hard to ignore. Exercise (a half-hour dip in the pool) costs me the whole day. Sigh.
But otherwise fine. Glad that knee is going to be fixed for you - people are very happy they've gotten them fixed.
Finally figuring out how to handle some of the physical problems.Over the last two days I finished a 2440 word scene, starting from scratch. First lines:
How do we deal with this going forward?
The only way possible: he is responsible for his actions, you for yours.
Last line:
Zoë placed far too much faith in ‘one of your own kind.’
Put through every editing trick I have, including Autocrit and the Mac robot voice reading my deathless prose. Phew!
Alicia wrote: "Finally figuring out how to handle some of the physical problems.Over the last two days I finished a 2440 word scene, starting from scratch. First lines:
How do we deal with this going forward?
T..."
Yay! Fist bump!
Thanks. It turned out to be completely counterintuitive how to handle the interesting things going on in the writer's body.I just started - if it works consistently, I may make some progress.
The writing is just work, but without a brain it's impossible to do anything creative.
I hear you Alicia. I get a bit of brain fog myself. It's so irritating.
That's brilliant. I will look at that in my own day, when I'm fogged, it's usually tiredness or hormones it may also be pain ... but I could easily see how taking it easy after a meal could help mine and all.Cheers
MTM
It took me YEARS to notice. Hope any of it works for you.I'm off for First Nap.
Crashed for over an hour. Feel much better - brainwise.Working out a little plot difficulty I don't want to solve the way it's going to be solved, and it needs to be solved - but so much easier without brain fog.
Alicia wrote: "Crashed for over an hour. Feel much better - brainwise.Working out a little plot difficulty I don't want to solve the way it's going to be solved, and it needs to be solved - but so much easier w..."
Yep. Don’t fight the fog. That’s clearly the answer!
Did quite a bit of editing this week. Finished the short story I'm submitting to Christmas Lites and managed to write a blog post. Even did some work on setting up the office. Although that will be easier after I've had the knee done!
I got another Tallis blog post written. I'm dropping back to one a week, I'm just been too busy to write more. I did step them up a bit for lockdown but from a blogging point of view that didn't seem to last all that long
About 1300 words into the next scene! Some of that must go - I found in this case the rough draft had been polished more than I remembered but I am a much better writer now than when I created that draft, and I'm catching myself in the horrible habit of sort of being an invisible narrator and commenting on things that need stronger dialogue - not someone explaining it!
I don't do that much any more, and root it out when I catch myself, but this was a while back and I'm glad I didn't publish before I got control of it.
So, progress, though the zoom mini-wedding in the morning took the wind out of my sails for the rest of the day.
Nice going. I have done a bit of reading through and editing today Just realised I need to tidy up the christmas short and send it out. Also need to make some calls about my forthcoming op though.Cheers
MTM
Done the edits on the Christmas anthology story. It’s terrible but it should get there tonight or tomorrow!
done another dogs and quads blog. I've got another dogs and quads book to release tomorrow so leading with a blog :-)
It's nice to see that everyone is managing to stay well and productive during these times. I never got furloughed and had to work through a combination of working from home, visits to the main office and camping out at other places that linked to the network. I thought that would make me much less productive. Instead, I've released two books recently onto Amazon and have another finished and going through the editing process. I also started a short story follow-up to fill in some of the blanks people wanted to know about one of my earlier stories and it's already ballooned to nearly twenty thousand words and I haven't got to the main part of the story yet.How you fine people find the time to do blog posts and the like, I will never know.
Darren wrote: "How you fine people find the time to do blog posts and the like, I will never know. ..."We're in complete lockdown here, but there is a lot of stress over the mishandling of the pandemic and the election in the US, so writing IS hard.
Manage a little most days.
Good to hear how productive you've been!
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