EclipsesMuse To Tepelus, I've been there. You might also try writing a synopsis for what you want to happen in that scene. It helped me a lot.
Yes, I agree with that, I've found that a para or so stating what needs to go there can help a lot after the tremendous rush of writing the part that was boiling away in my head.
Monkey,
I got the first thousand words on the sequel to Never Fall completed today.
Wow that's great!
Wow, that's amazing.
David Poellot, Once the queries are in full swing, I'll get back to working on outlining and see if one of the ideas appeals to me, so I can get back to writing. You don't realize how much you miss, until you're away from it for a while. But if I want to be a published author someday, then I need to go through all this other stuff.
I know what you mean, I've just been inputting my MSS into a prog so I can check frequency of characters, items and locations and other stuff, - I'm pretty fed up, and missing actually writing, but as you say sometimes we need to do other things.
Margarita Skies, the last rep point I received from you. I've received no more rep points
but anyway, how are you doing?
rep points? What are they?
MokoBunny,
I just finished the first draft of my second book today! I didn't think I could do it but I did lol. Yay me
Absolutely Yay You! I'm nowhere near that point, having had to go back to book 1 and try to sort that one out.
If I even do get to the point of first draft of book 2 finished I'll be over the moon.
Congratulations!
French Maiden, My hands are nearly all healed. Hoping to be pumping it on out again perhaps as soon as tonight.
Have you ever thought of getting something like Dragon Naturally Speaking?
I have joint problems that sometimes make using a keyboard very painful, and DNS can help a great deal with some writing tasks.
Lizardmaker,
I finished scribbling chapter 12 today. Will need to decipher and type it tomorrow.
That's the sort of think I use DNS for. Congrats for chapter 12!
AndreaGS, I'm at 34,785/90,000 on my urban fantasy now. Keeping up my 700 words/day pledge on it. But I'm thinking I'll have to add in another sub-plot at the pace I'm burning through my outline.
At this rate you hardly need any encouragement, your word count is 'phew'! your total is 'wow'!
and you outline first! 'Yipes'!
I find it impossible to outline until about 1/3rd to 1/2 way through - or sometimes until the end.
Tepelus,
Hopefully you're over the hump then?
pdblake Ok, ok! I've finished it!
Oh damn, I went and started another.
Now you're just
asking for trouble! You're just a 'writin' fool, I guess.
I've just inputted my MSS from MSWord to yWriter and WYON, for different things each prog can do - (I wish there was one that could do it all) trouble is each prog is reporting the manuscript as being at differing word counts:
MSWord says it's: 69,340
yWriter says: 69,213
WYON says: 70,080
So... where does that leave me?
yWriter meanly states that I've added, minus 2 today.
Well! if that's not adding insult to injury!
Lol