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About 61K words into my first draft. Mostly 61K words of shit, but that doesn't bother me so much. I feel there's enough under the shit I can craft once I get to the revision process. I know I'm going to throw away many of the scenes and maybe even major characters and make very substantial changes, but I'm very pig-headed right now about just getting the damn draft done!
Not a good writing output for me this week so far. Probably only 2,500 words in 4 days (I reset the word count tracker every morning so I don't know exactly). My goal is 1,000 a day. I'd be happy with 2,500 words if they were good. I'd be happy with 4,000 words period. But missing the goal and not producing anything good is bumming me out.
I'm working on one of the major character's storyline. Thematically this character is important, at least for the draft (All bets are off for the revision stage, she's going to have to earn her keep). But I have no direction for her. She's got goals and motivations, but I'm having trouble giving her a problem. So she's bounced her doing something interesting, and bounced there, and there were raiders, and there's this asshole who wants to destroy her if she doesn't join his cult. Okay, maybe she does have problems, but it's not fitting really well, and there's no clear progression down the plot. I'm just saying, okay Miss, what are you going to do next? She does something interesting. No clear progression for resolution. Okay, what next? Insert an event to get it kickstarted. Nothing.
Frustrating. I need more sleep. Between work, caring for the dogs, spending quality time with the girlfriend, writing, and the new gym opening tomorrow (I need a good workout so bad!) sleep is hard to come by.
I'll keep chipping away. Maybe take a day off and then come back with a vengeance. I may be a shitty writer, but I'm persistent as hell!
Not a good writing output for me this week so far. Probably only 2,500 words in 4 days (I reset the word count tracker every morning so I don't know exactly). My goal is 1,000 a day. I'd be happy with 2,500 words if they were good. I'd be happy with 4,000 words period. But missing the goal and not producing anything good is bumming me out.
I'm working on one of the major character's storyline. Thematically this character is important, at least for the draft (All bets are off for the revision stage, she's going to have to earn her keep). But I have no direction for her. She's got goals and motivations, but I'm having trouble giving her a problem. So she's bounced her doing something interesting, and bounced there, and there were raiders, and there's this asshole who wants to destroy her if she doesn't join his cult. Okay, maybe she does have problems, but it's not fitting really well, and there's no clear progression down the plot. I'm just saying, okay Miss, what are you going to do next? She does something interesting. No clear progression for resolution. Okay, what next? Insert an event to get it kickstarted. Nothing.
Frustrating. I need more sleep. Between work, caring for the dogs, spending quality time with the girlfriend, writing, and the new gym opening tomorrow (I need a good workout so bad!) sleep is hard to come by.
I'll keep chipping away. Maybe take a day off and then come back with a vengeance. I may be a shitty writer, but I'm persistent as hell!