Malleable May - 500 words/day or editing - all genres welcome

Shara said:

729 words this morning. Progress has been slow for the last couple of weeks. But I guess every word counts.

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This has been my issue also.

But definitely every word counts. So I just keep moving forwards. At a far slower pace than I'd like but forwards all the same.


I wish I had a short story due to an editor. I'm just sitting on a wealth of shorts and flash fiction.

Brechin Frost said:

I wish I had a short story due to an editor. I'm just sitting on a wealth of shorts and flash fiction.

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Don't sit on them, send them out.

No words today. Shall get back to the editing tomorrow

Brechin - Or bundle them together and sell them. I have one such bundle called In Flames. It's supposed to be an introduction to my work. I have it actually for free, and I've gotten a good number of downloads.


So my bosses are seeing their bookkeeper on Thursday about dissolving the business. I do believe this is happening.

:flails:

Saoirse said:

Brechin - Or bundle them together and sell them. I have one such bundle called In Flames. It's supposed to be an introduction to my work. I have it actually for free, and I've gotten a good number of downloads.


So my bosses are seeing their bookkeeper on Thursday about dissolving the business. I do believe this is happening.

:flails:

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That's a good idea! I've been thinking about that for a little while. I'm definitely going to be sending some out, but I very much would like to put them together eventually.

Sorry about your job. That really sucks.

Saoirse said:

So my bosses are seeing their bookkeeper on Thursday about dissolving the business. I do believe this is happening.

:flails:

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I'm so sorry to hear that, Saoirse.

lizmonster said:

Wrote 3,111 words today, which would be more impressive if it didn't involve a rewrite of a chapter I did a couple of days ago. But I'm back on track, and I'm actually quite fond of the MS today. That'll pass, of course.

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YAY! Here's to liking you MS. (At least for today. )

Brechin Frost said:

That's a good idea! I've been thinking about that for a little while. I'm definitely going to be sending some out, but I very much would like to put them together eventually.

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Good luck with the sub, Brechin, when you decide to send your work out.

I've been working hard on a few scenes, firming them up, and checking timing - they're close to the end of the book so I have to make sure the timing is spot on. Not sure how many words I've added, or taken away, but progress has been made.

Checking in after a few days away. Really sorry to hear about your job, Saoirse. Hope it works out for you.

Thanks, guys.

No news.

I need to start writing again. I've been depressed and unproductive. Need to change that.

Every time I think I've written the final scene for this WIP another appears.

Bright side... 691 words written.

muse - That happens with every book I write. I'm convinced it's because I subconsciously don't want to revise.


I am writing again, yay! It's nonfiction. I'm not ready to discuss it yet, but it's a cool idea. 2k in two days!

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muse - That happens with every book I write. I'm convinced it's because I subconsciously don't want to revise.

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I think it's more I don't want to finish.

Saoirse said:

I am writing again, yay! It's nonfiction. I'm not ready to discuss it yet, but it's a cool idea. 2k in two days!

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Congrats on writing again, and the word count.

329 words today, but many more red-penned into oblivion.

I think I need to reframe my goal to submitting things. Producing words (usually) isn't a problem for me because I have very fast fingers, hovering around 115 WPM, give or take a few depending on the day and what I'm writing, so in twenty or thirty minutes I can write a decent short story. I'm also good about editing my work and getting it up to snuff. But for some reason I have a mental block when it comes to magazines. I convince myself there's one more to thing to change, one more to tweak, that something is missing....and although I may write ten or fifteen stories in a month, maybe one, if even that, gets sent out.

So, new goal: Submit at least one story a week, no ifs, ands, or buts about it!

Welcome sockycat and good luck with your goal. You can do this.

500 words exactly on the nonfiction project yesterday. Aiming to do more in a few.

Good writing session before work this morning. 1131 achieved.

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Not quite so good this morning. 561 words written. But I got to the end of the chapter.

I've been in a slump recently. The words have not been coming as easily.

So, I decided to take a break from trying to write a new chapter, and rewrote the first one to better fit the rest of the story. The pace of rewriting got me out of the slump and how much I love my first chapter really helped reinvigorate me. Now I'm in the mood to write again.

722 this morning.

Submitted to two magazines today, and I hated every minute of it...but I did it!

Now to try and get at least 500 in.

for all words, subs, finishing chapters, etc.

I am not tracking word counts because I'm not sure why but I'm writing little bits and holy cow, the tangential character who I thought was going to be an early kill-off is turning out to be funny and... well... someone. But he does swear and drink and womanize an awful lot, so spending an entire book with him as a POV character... *shudders primly* (Okay, I'll admit it. He's fun.)

Shara - Nice wordage!

Brechin - Awesome that you were able to pull yourself out of your slump.

sockycat - Yay for submitting!

heyjude - Your character sounds very fun.


A total of around 1,200 words between finishing a short story and the nonfiction project. I'll take it.

Sounds like everyone is hitting all their targets. sockeycat - good luck with the submissions.

HJ - your character sounds like a lot of fun to write.

I'm still shaping the last 5/6 scenes for my WIP. I'm finding them kinda hard to write as I've been holding on to all these secrets for so long that now it seems wrong to finally let the reader know. Need to work through that block and get the scenes at least fleshed out.

Picked youngest up at college today - a 5hr round trip. Then spent what was left of the day doing laundry for said child. (Trying not to think of the mountain of ironing awaiting.)

No words to report today.

I wrote a query I will never send to anyone.

(Except maybe muse... just to entertain and/or bug her!)