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So far for today . . . I have*edit* I'm done editing the first part of my book! YES!
Writing Word Count: 3,685
Editing Page Count: 0 pages
Total Word Count: 21,172 words
Total Edited Page Count: 109 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 20 pages, 10,136 words
I have to leave for 2 hours, and then I'm going to come back, and finish editing Part 1 of my book!!! Yea!
*edit* YES! ha ha
Annie wrote: "I'm not sure . . . mostly because of the story line, you'd have to know it from beginning to end in order to do so. I just need a break is all, and I'll be back up and running in no time!"I was working really hard at rewriting a piece for our school magazine, and the editors didn't really think it was working out. They told me to take a break from it, and I think that really helped me when I finally got back to it. Good luck with your writing, and don't worry: you will definitely be up and running soon!
:D I'm definitely up and running now! And thanks for the encouragement Kritika, it really helps. And plus, taking a break, and thinking about the story and how to make it work out really works. I did that for the past week, and now I've been rewriting an entire chapter for the past hour. I'm almost done, and really excited, because I'm halfway done with editing my book! Good luck on your writing as well!
Thanks!Good job on editing half your book. I think editing is far harder than actually writing, because when you look back, there are so many ways to fix the same problem. I can never tell which way to pick, and I end up spending hours debating how I should change that part of the story.
I'm exactly the same, Kritika! And sometimes, I keep using the wrong way and have to start anew. Which isn't fun when it's a novel I'm editing.
I totally agree! And the funniest part is, the first half of my book is 10 times better than the second half. I'm afraid I'm going to be deleting a lot of chapters and rewriting them all
Hello! I am bad at catching up on people's topics and everything … I feel like I've fallen totally behind. What's up Annie? ^_^
ha ha, nothing much Brigid. How about you?
Eh, same here. February break. Woot. XDI started a new story! ^_^
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/6...
coolio I'll check it out!This week at my school is freedom week, and we don't have any more days off of school until May 5, after that it's Spring Break in April.
Same here. No school this week … and then we don't have any days off until April. O_O eeeek.
That sucks. But we've got Spring Break to look forward to! Hopefully it won't be like last years. The first day of Spring Break it was perfectly normal, and really warm. But then it snowed for the next three days, and rained on Friday. All day. Some Spring Break, it should have been called winter break.
Yuck, what an awful spring break! I hope this year turns out better. I hate it when there's awful weather during a break; it just takes away the fun of having no school.
No kidding! And it's been snowing for the past 3 hours. I'm not very happy.
For the past week: Writing Word Count: 700 words
Editing Page Count: 17 pages
Total Word Count: 21,872 words
Total Edited Page Count: 126 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 20 pages, 10,136 words
So . . . I'm in the hole 900 words. Which I'll be making up soon enough.
Editing. Sucks.
I must be desperate to be done with editing if I'm searching for agents again . . .
Ah, some way left still. *cheer on you*
1,500 words in the hole. If I get done editing this chapter today, and start rewriting the next one, I should be able to get caught up. :D
Writing Word Count: 3,130 words (I'm no longer in the hole!)Editing Page Count: 5 pages
Total Word Count: 25,002 words
Total Edited Page Count: 131 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 25 pages, 13,066 words
Must I say how much I hate/love rewriting and editing?
For the next 3 weeks, I'm going to be on the "down low". I've got to prepare myself for Drill/Dance Company/ Dance 3 auditions, so my mom's not going to let me get on the laptop to write. *sigh* So, I'll have to do my best to write on a piece of paper. Also, just because I won't exactly have time to write 200 words each day these next 3 weeks, I'm going to bring my goal down to 100. After that, my writing will resume to normal. :D
For the past week:Writing Word Count: 1,059
Editing Page Count: 3 pages
Total Word Count: 26,061 words
Total Edited Page Count: 134 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 25 pages, 13,066 words
*sigh* editing sucks.
Editing is awful when you're doing it, but when you're done editing a few pages, you feel so much more accomplished than when you finish writing the same amount. At least, that's how I see it.
Writing Word Count: 1,321Editing Page Count: 3 pages
Total Word Count: 27,382 words
Total Edited Page Count: 137 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 28 pages, 14,387 words
I've never gone so slow with editing! Kritika, it is definitely true. I do feel much more accomplished.
Farkle: The ultimate time killer when it comes to writers block.
I've been writing, I REALLY HAVE! And I am totally on a roll with it, it's just I haven't done very much this past week. One, well, because I actually have a life now. Ha ha. So technically, this word count right here is over the total of 3 days. . . .
Writing Word Count: 2,098
Editing Page Count: 1 page
Total Word Count: 29,480
Total Edited Page Count: 138 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 32 pages, 16,485
Don't delete writing when you're RE-writing. Because when you take a break for over a week, you forget what you were going to Re-write. It's a good thing I've backed up the story several times :D
Annie wrote: "Don't delete writing when you're RE-writing. Because when you take a break for over a week, you forget what you were going to Re-write. It's a good thing I've backed up the story several times :D"I learned that the hard way...
I completely changed part of a short story after it was edited by a few people. The next time I got it edited, I was told that the original version was better, and that I could keep some elements of the rewrite. Unfortunately, I had saved the new one over the old one, and didn't remember the old version. Luckily I had a printed copy of the old one, but it was still a pain to have to re-type the whole thing.
yeah, I can see how that would be a pain in the butt :D
I wrote stuff last night, but it's the beginning of a book, and i'm writing the whole thing by hand . . . . so I don't know if I really want to transfer it to the computer and figure out how many words it is.
2 days agoWriting Word Count: 739 words
Editing Page Count: 0 pages
Total Word Count: 30,219
Total Edited Page Count: 138 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 32 pages, 16,485
I'm so stupid . . . I forgot New Moon was going to be released tonight! Woooooow. So now, I'm going to figure out how much the Blu-ray version's going to be, and then I'm going to go get it at MIDNIGHT! Wow, I feel like quite the idiot lately. Anyways, this will be an amazing Late birthday present. It should have been released last friday night. :D
I'm not doing too good with keeping in touch with my goals. Oh well. :D
2 days ago:Writing Word Count: 452 words
Editing Page Count: 0 pages
Total Word Count: 30,671
Total Edited Page Count: 138 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 32 pages, 16,937
I wrote stuff last night in my notebook, but I really don't want to get it right now. So that information will come later :DSo far for tonight:
Writing Word Count: 673 words
Editing Page Count: 5 pages
Total Word Count: 31,344
Total Edited Page Count: 143 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 32 pages, 16,937
Over 3 days:Writing Word Count: 5,339
Editing Page Count: 6 pages
Total Word Count: 36,683
Total Edited Page Count: 149 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 36 pages, 19072
Writing Word Count: 2,702 wordsEditing Page Count: 0 pages
Total Word Count: 39,385 words
Total Edited Page Count: 149 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 36 pages, 19072
My plan for Spring Break? Break down my story, tear it apart bit by bit! Disect the entire thing, then rebuild from the bottom up. Hopefully by the end, things will begin to work, and be much, much, better than its original form.
Oh my, good luck with that! I bet you will feel very accomplished once your story evolves. I don't think I'll be doing any writing or editing over spring break myself...I'll be on a band tour to Costa Rica!
Annie~So far behind *eyes glaze over from 108 unread posts* but good work! I'm glad you've gotten over your slump and you seem to be doing much better on the word counts. See, things do work out!
Keep up the good work and I hope you are happy once you rebuild your story. I had to do that with some of Soulfire, and I'm really happy with the results. So take it from me- if done right, it's worth it.
XOXO, Tink *_*
Thank you Tink :D lol Eventually I will go to some movie this week with my friends, but. . . .I'm still not so sure about it.
Horrrrrrible! MY WRITING VIBE IS GONE! GONE I TELL YOU!
Oh no! I HATE writer's block and unfinished ideas and great ideas that lead to nothing and all the other things that kill stories before they start.Grab a flashlight and dust off the cobwebs in your head and FIND YOUR VIBE! :)
:D I should probably stop playing Farkle on Facebook.
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Writing Word Count: I know I wrote 400 words
Editing Page Count: 8 pages
Total Word Count: 17,487 words
Total Edited Page Count: 109 pages
Total Rewriting Count: 15 pages, 6,451 words