novel_in_90: Word Count for Friday, May 9th, 2008

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o_yannik) wrote in

novel_in_90,
@ 2008-05-09 15:52:00

Current mood:	tired
Entry tags:	sound off!

Word Count for Friday, May 9th, 2008
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947

True or false?

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	470 o_yannik 2008-05-09 02:03 pm UTC (link)
	I had this scene in my head for, like, three days. Was putting if off for Saturday, but had a moment to myself yestersay and wrote it longhand. Typed it to the comp today. It was easy. Now the difficult part will be joing it with what happens before, because some of that chunk is not written yet and the rest needs rewriting. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: 470 unforth 2008-05-09 09:40 pm UTC (link)
	Easy scenes are so much fun to write. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: 470 footlingagain 2008-05-10 08:35 am UTC (link)
	the difficult part will be joing it with what happens before That's true. Sometimes I get into a stride and follow the storyline (or rather, the storyline shows itself to me) fairly easily. Sometimes it's like someone switches on a light for a minute, then switches it off again - but in the meantime, they've moved me! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Two Hours ammonite7 2008-05-09 04:24 pm UTC (link)
	That is rather true, in a way, for me, because I have always had a terrible time writing letters to people. Hate that "here is what happened next" stuff, so dreary. Never thought about making it interesting, embellishing like a "real" writer might. Now I don't have time to write letters. Too busy writing stories. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Two Hours unforth 2008-05-09 09:40 pm UTC (link)
	lol. Great anecdote - and great work! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	1122 jewell79 2008-05-09 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	I love beginnings. As for the quote, very definitely true. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: 1122 unforth 2008-05-09 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	Looks like a great beginning. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: 1122 footlingagain 2008-05-10 08:36 am UTC (link)
	Beginnings are such fun. And that's an excellent start :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: 1122 sarramaks 2008-05-10 09:43 am UTC (link)
	Super word count! (Reply to this)(Parent)

2353

tnafor
2008-05-09 09:14 pm UTC (link)

I can't really speak for anyone else as far as "more difficult" but for me today it wasn't the writing, but rather the erasing that was difficult. I had written my character into a corner..or maybe it was myself that was in the corner. I wasn't enjoying the story. Couldn't figure out where to take it that was interesting to me. So for the passed week or so I've been stalled.

And then this morning I freed myself from the corner. I deleted about 8k and went back to the point in the story when I was enjoying writing it... where there were still interesting options available to my MC...this is my choose your own adventure and I wanted a different adventure than the one I'd started out with.

The good news is that as difficult as it was to let go of those words, new ones flooded into place. Somehow I've ended up with 2353 more than I had this am.

And yes, I had the day off work. How else would this be possible?

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	Re: 2353 unforth 2008-05-09 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	Amazing count! Wait, you ended up with 2353 MORE than you had in the morning, AFTER cutting 8k? OMG, that's AWESOME! What's your actual count, do you know? It's always rough to realize that you have to take a step back and eliminate - it sounds like you did the right thing, though. I'm really happy for you, that the cut has left you more inspired! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: 2353 footlingagain 2008-05-10 08:39 am UTC (link)
	Wow - that's great going! The good news is that as difficult as it was to let go of those words, new ones flooded into place. That's a really hard lesson to get your head round, I think. When I first started on bigger projects, the idea of deleting so much was really scary because all I could see was the waste. But sometimes it's the only thing to do. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: 2353 sarramaks 2008-05-10 09:44 am UTC (link)
	WOW! that's 10353 words! Take a bow! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	1137 martyn44 2008-05-09 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	1137 words added to Bothal, making 55147, and the final dance of death and redemption has begun. Who dies and who is redeemed? I think I know. I don't know about writing being more difficult than it is for other people, but I do know that NOT writing is definitely more difficult for me than (most) other people. The same coin, different sides? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: 1137 footlingagain 2008-05-10 08:42 am UTC (link)
	Yay! And a final dance of death and redemption - I like the sound of that :) I do know that NOT writing is definitely more difficult for me than (most) other people. nods I get that. I found out the hard way, by not writing for a long time. I was so miserable I could hardly speak. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: 1137 sarramaks 2008-05-10 09:45 am UTC (link)
	The knowing part often helps to get you to the end :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

unforth
2008-05-09 11:25 pm UTC (link)

912 words for the primary, lucky amnesiac getting some attention once more.
Quote: "He couldn’t remember ever being particularly stressed, but some part of his brain could remember the difficulties and responsibilities of being a criminal genius. Now, he’d had massages, gone scuba diving in the warm ocean, hiked over volcanoes, gotten soundly beaten by Butler in a game of golf, danced with the pretty girls who were highly paid to flatter hotel patrons, eaten gourmet food, and generally had a glorious time of it all. He was almost ready to believe that Mastermind had given himself amnesia as part of an overdue vacation."
Tomorrow's problem: making sure I keep working on the primary!!

Meanwhile, I got 885 on the secondary.

xaniquen, with whom I'm collaborating on the secondary, and I had a long talk last night in which we plotted out a big important bit of back story; I typed up an outline of that which was another 1646 (I did that in like half an hour, too, it was awesome. :) ) The funny part is that, as is often the case with back story, the chances are high that it will only ever be alluded to. But it was fun to put together anyway. :)

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	912+885+1646? footlingagain 2008-05-10 08:44 am UTC (link)
	Crikey! You really are on a roll. Fantastic! And I love that quote :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sarramaks 2008-05-10 09:46 am UTC (link)
	Well done. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	a_r_williams 2008-05-10 12:51 am UTC (link)
	True. I think when you have been given a gift, being better than people who do not have the gift is easy. The challenge is finding a way to make that gift greater than what it was when you got it. And that's what makes it so hard. (Reply to this)

	llwheeler 2008-05-10 02:21 am UTC (link)
	684, but I reached a good stopping point, so I'm calling it a day. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	footlingagain 2008-05-10 08:48 am UTC (link)
	684? Hang on, isn't that less than quota? Hmmm - I'll spare you from reacquaintance with pink mock today. But only because I've been such a wuss myself g (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	llwheeler 2008-05-10 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	I've been spared! And I was good today, so I'm spared again :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sarramaks 2008-05-10 09:43 am UTC (link)
	And that's a mockity mock from me! :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	llwheeler 2008-05-10 09:34 pm UTC (link)
	I am well mocked, and it motivated me to do better today. So thanks :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	747 footlingagain 2008-05-10 08:32 am UTC (link)
	It must be true, or I'd have made it to 750 ;-) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: 747 sarramaks 2008-05-10 09:47 am UTC (link)
	Don't think missing three words qualifies you for a mock! Well done! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: 747 footlingagain 2008-05-10 09:56 am UTC (link)
	Awww - Thank you! I was bracing myself for a mocking g (Reply to this)(Parent)

	2492 sarramaks 2008-05-10 09:42 am UTC (link)
	It took bloody ages. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: 2492 unforth 2008-05-10 01:12 pm UTC (link)
	Of course it did - that's a LOT of words!! Good job! :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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