Fearless February - 500 words/day or editing - all genres welcome

Sounds doable, Liz! Awesome on the prequelling.


Wrote 705 words on the escape scene before my wrists decided to complain. Back at it today. I hope to finish.

Shara, congrats on the word count, and the gruesome demise of your character.

Liz - nice prequel wordage. good luck with the edits.


Saoirse - sounds like you've worked out your escape scene.

I managed some momentum on my WIP - 6 more scenes fleshed out and threads are beginning to pull together.

Kinda stalled now as editor sent 2nd lot of edits for Where There's Smoke and needs them back tomorrow. Tomorrow!!

Admittedly, there aren't many, but I do like to take my time over them. *sigh*

Time for BIC.

Only 400 words. There was a lot of commotion today that got in the way. I spent a great deal of time reading PhD theses in Physics. Also struggling with the word that I can't find in the Oxford dictionary, neither the actual book or the online version. Biblichor, meaning the pleasant smell of old books. It's a word, right? I've heard it. It's like Petrichor, the smell that comes withe the first rain after a stretch of hot, dry weather.

Managed to get all edits done and sent to publisher by Sunday. Phew!

Haven't added any words to my WIP today. Brain just doesn't want to work so I think I shall spend the evening doing research, or other mundane tasks.

Good work, muse, Liz, & Brechin Frost!


I finished the escape scene. Wrote a total of almost 2k. Whewwwww. Took yesterday off and played Guild Wars, and now I'm back at it. Proofreading. I may also be getting an editing job from another writer friend so yay!

Liz- Yay for staying on schedule.

Saoirse said:

Good work, muse, Liz, & Brechin Frost!


I finished the escape scene. Wrote a total of almost 2k. Whewwwww. Took yesterday off and played Guild Wars, and now I'm back at it. Proofreading. I may also be getting an editing job from another writer friend so yay!

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Fingers crossed for the editing job, Saoirse.

Working on my WIP today, cleaning up scenes. No word count because what I added in one scene I deleted in another. lol

lizmonster said:

Nice work, muse!

Another day of editing, although I finished a bit later than I wanted to. The Kid had a friend over, and the house was a bit chaotic..

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Hectic here, too. Babysitting my little granddaughter, so no words so far today. Hopefully later.

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I'm doing an experiment: I'm writing down the first line and the last line of every chapter. Noticing some repetition in how I close out scenes. I'm not sure it's noticeable to anyone who hasn't read the book five thousand times, but there are some lines I'll probably tweak.

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Oooh, that sounds interesting. Can see some procrastinating in my future.

Liz - Neat about the lines. Must make a note for future reference.

muse - Hope you got to get some words in.


I'm 18 pages into the proofread.

Good luck with the proofreads, Saoirse.

I did manage some wordage yesterday but got stuck on a certain scene. Some mindless laps in the swimming pool today provided the answer - need to move the scene to a later date to give it more oomph. Shall work on that this evening.

Managed to write about 2400 words last night and this morning. I should sleep eventually.

Well Southern Rail have scuppered my plans to write this week, since on every occasion I got up early to catch the early train to London and hence get some writing time in before the day job, said train was cancelled...

Despite that I managed to do 900 words this morning and still be in the office by 9am, but I am well short of my 3000 words a week target. Will have to find some writing time this weekend.

Just saw this thread, but jumping in late to the party. Been busy with edits. Trying to get writing done before we start with line edits. Goal is 1000 words a day. Pretty much got at least 750 words a day this week, with something new. Happy writing.

Welcome Melody!!!!

Liz - Awesome on the edits. Interesting about the prequel. I think it would be fun to write either way.

Shara - Sorry to hear about the train. That just sucks.

Brechin - Awesome wordage! Who needs sleep when there's words to write?

muse - Awesome that swimming helped put your issue into perspective!


41 pages in.

Sounds like everyone is getting a lot done.

muse - Not at all. I usually feel the same.


127 pages in. Officially halfway done. My brain was toast around midnight last night so I played a bit of Guild Wars. :shifty look:

3455 today in total. Too few of these words written for my novel though.

Good work everyone!! Keep truckin'!

Liz - Hugs. I know that feeling.

Brechin Frost - Awesome wordage!


168 pages in. Just want to be DONE, ugh.