Today was a good day

[RedMolly]

1,050 brand-spankin'-new words in about an hour and a half (or however long it takes for my kids to watch "Robots"). Finished a chapter, and, without any preplanning on my part, the Plot Thickened. And three of my characters got in a nasty shouting match that revealed the Overarching Theme of the book. Woo-hoo!

How's your writing weekend going? And did anyone find anything in the weekend book review section of your local rag that sounds worth reading? (I'm still on the hunt for a darn good novel to read next week.)

 

[alleycat]

There was a post earlier today in the bool club forum with a link to "little-known great books": http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44459

A couple of the books listed looked interesting. I requested one from my local library.

 

[Soccer Mom]

I had a very productive weekend (including friday). About 4K this weekend. I finished a chapter book (lower grade level) and I'm about 8-10K from finishing my middle grade mystery. Just in time for NaNo! Whoot!

 

[moth]

I'm having a "meh" time lately of being able to get words down. Several reasons for that, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Everybody who's having lots of productivity -- yay! Good for you!

 

[expatbrat]

Well done Red Molly and Soccer Mom.

I don't work on the weekends but I have been editing Expat Brat (it's the name of my book – not me - hubs is the expat brat) and have been finding lots and lots of redundant sections that can be cut. Which is brilliant as I am more than fifty-thousand words over budget. Cutting out sections was difficult at first as I loved everyone one of those words, but now I am enjoying the pruning process.

Am also identifying areas that deserve more attention, and skimmed areas that would be better if skipped altogether. There are a couple of themes I have not given enough focus or attention to and I am reworking these to give the novel more punch. It is slowly coming together.

It is school holidays this week (I teach swimming at an international school) so I am spending the entire week editing, cleaning and fixing up.

 

[RG570]

I do the same amount every day, so the weekend wasn't any different for me. I'm finally getting to the part where the s**t hits the fan though, and I'm nearing the end of this first draft. It's good to be over that annoying middle part.

 

[Sesselja]

(I'm still on the hunt for a darn good novel to read next week.)

I would recommend "Out Stealing Horses" by Norwegian writer Per Petterson (you can get it through Amazon.com). It's a beautiful book.

 

[PeeDee]

Over the weekend-ish, I sold all sorts of stuff for publication (which I'm waiting to talk about in detail 'till contracts are signed and it's a safe bet). Otherwise, I wrote a short story and a poem purely on whim over the weekend, and then did some good comic-script writing...which is not as fun to write as what you did, Molly, but had to get done...

 

[Carrie in PA]

I crossed the 50,000 word mark, all while hosting a sleepover and birthday party for my Little Guy. And watching football.

 

[RedMolly]

For pub? Rock on, PeeDee... and everyone else who had a productive weekend!

I also discovered that the waterproof notebooks were just what the (book) doctor ordered... I've already got one overflowing with story notes from a long (long long) shower.

 

[ChaosTitan]

I had a wicked productive weekend.

Yesterday Co-Writer and I finished draft one of our first novel together (her first completed novel, and my third). Clocked in at 114,00 words, and we immediately celebrated with a bottle of Concord Wine.

 

[Sunshine13]

I did ok. I've been kind of at a stall with where I am in the ms. I forced myself to write though, and got 2.6K words written over the weekend. I have a feeling, however, this chapter will be heavily revised. You know, when things just don't flow out like they need to? I think it's the subject matter. Never been good with relationship/love scenario's. Why oh why I chose to have one, I have no clue. Actually, I don't think *I* did the choosing. *Glares at her main character* she tends to control my writing sometimes. Teehee.

Glad to hear you got a lot done. I love when that happens, things rolling out perfectly like that. Sorry we missed each other though. Maybe some other time?

 

[PeeDee]

I had a wicked productive weekend.

Yesterday Co-Writer and I finished draft one of our first novel together (her first completed novel, and my third). Clocked in at 114,00 words, and we immediately celebrated with a bottle of Concord Wine.

And then you woke up, naked and alone, in the forest surrounded by quiet and slightly stunned sheep with no idea how you got there but with a definite feeling that you've hurt your lower back.



....or something.

 

[ChaosTitan]

And then you woke up, naked and alone, in the forest surrounded by quiet and slightly stunned sheep with no idea how you got there but with a definite feeling that you've hurt your lower back.



....or something.

Have you been spying on me again?

 

[PeeDee]

I don't know if it counts as spying if you call me up first and say something like "Can you hold the camera?"

Gawd...

 

[ChaosTitan]

I don't know if it counts as spying if you call me up first and say something like "Can you hold the camera?"

Gawd...

Can't a girl forget things once in a while?

 

[PeeDee]

That's what my wife says.









*sob*

 

[expatbrat]

This thread has got me motivated. I'm going off line, taking my hardcopy of my novel out to the pool and I'm going to do some editing.

Later.....