Magnificent March - 500 words/day or editing - all genres welcome

Hi, Liz - congrats on the words.


Saoirse - did you have a good birthday?


Brechin - you're really pushing those words out.


Way to go, HJ. Sermon and words on your MS. Whoo-hoo


As for badly behaved characters - they're the best!

Still no words to post, but I shall get back to writing tomorrow.

muse - Yes, it was awesome!

Yay for writing!

muse said:

Brechin - you're really pushing those words out.

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I am. I started work on this book at the end of January and I should be at 23,000 by the end of this month.

As an aside, I have a certain anxiety about writing a book that's only around 50,000 words because I understand that it is short and that it may dissuade agents and publishers. Not to mention the thousands of writing resources that tell you, "Don't aim to be the exception" when it comes to book length. But isn't it better to allow a story to be the length is needs to be rather than trying to expand it to fit expectations that are unrelated to the storytelling?

muse said:

As for badly behaved characters - they're the best!

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I agree.

muse said:

As for badly behaved characters - they're the best!

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When I say badly behaved, I mean really badly behaved. Like, totally unlikable. Plus, I don't want to shock you, but one of them swears. *sniff*

Brechin Frost said:

As an aside, I have a certain anxiety about writing a book that's only around 50,000 words because I understand that it is short and that it may dissuade agents and publishers. Not to mention the thousands of writing resources that tell you, "Don't aim to be the exception" when it comes to book length. But isn't it better to allow a story to be the length is needs to be rather than trying to expand it to fit expectations that are unrelated to the storytelling?

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This sounds like its own thread! Do it!

Go Team!

586 words last night.

heyjude said:

This sounds like its own thread! Do it!

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I did! Link!

I like my characters as badly behaved as possible.

heyjude said:

When I say badly behaved, I mean really badly behaved. Like, totally unlikable. Plus, I don't want to shock you, but one of them swears. *sniff*

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How shocking, HJ.

27 words deleted from the MS, which is good, seeing as I'm editing.