Summer Challenge Invitation

icerose · Jun 29, 2009

Did the first episode in the series today, wasn't much of an accomplishment, but today was one of those days that I had no go juice and basically wanted to vegg out. So I watched Harper's Island episodes while I did my laundry and cooked and such. Tomorrow, I swear I will get more writing done. I'd like to finish a piece outside my paid work before my trip upstate in two weeks.

STKlingaman · Jun 30, 2009

Ok no sure numbers here, I'm filling
in missing pieces for chapter 10 & 11
while fiddling with the timeline for chap.4.

Maybe 600 words total.

maybe . . .

icerose · Jul 2, 2009

Been a really hectic week for me, next Thursday we'll be leaving for his job interview, we're nervous and excited all at once, but getting ready for it has been crazy!

Anyway, since my last posting I got another 10 pages done on a WIP as well as 10 pages on The Fire Key. I'm up to page 60 now. Hopefully my husband will get this job, we'll move, settle in, and I'll be able to make my own deadline!

EFCollins · Jul 2, 2009

I've moved on chapter 10 after being stuck in chapter 9 for over a week. I finally just sketched out 9 and moved on. It never became any clearer... maybe it will by the time I do revisions.

Elidibus · Jul 2, 2009

Broke 40K yesterday morning. I have all night to write today. Some time Friday afternoon and early Saturday morning.

Then I have to hang out with friends (See fireworks Saturday and play D&D on Sunday) so that's gonna chip into my writing time. (horrible to say, isn't it?

)

Tentative ending word count will probably be around 60K or so. If I keep this rate up, I can be finished by this time next week :-D

smsarber · Jul 2, 2009

icerose, that's a lot on your plate! Good luck to your husband!

icerose · Jul 2, 2009

smsarber said:
icerose, that's a lot on your plate! Good luck to your husband!

Thanks, we'll get through this, I just really hope he can get this job. If he can get this job, we'll be okay, if he doesn't, life will get much more difficult than it is now.

Writing, that's the slice of positive. It's nice to have something I can focus on. I'm trying to get a screenplay written before the trip, I'm 20% through it with the whole thing outlined, then of course the other two before September first, so we'll see how it all unfolds.

smsarber · Jul 3, 2009

600 words and another completed chapter!

AuburnAssassin · Jul 3, 2009

I just broke 30k and wove in some free floating sub-plot and other chapters that I had skipped ahead to write.

dnic · Jul 3, 2009

smsarber said:
That's just awful!

Got distracted with something else, so the WIP is crawling oh-so-slowly...9k?

STKlingaman · Jul 3, 2009

Was looking to add a few details,
to a chapter turned into 1800+ words.

Made a nice little chapter.

bettielee · Jul 4, 2009

I have been far too long absent from this thread. I went to my sister's for an extended weekend last weekend. Then I came home, with very firm goals in mind, and missed the first one with a tummy ache. Oh well, just got home, what the hell right? Then the tummy ache got really bad, and I, the most phobic of doctor-hating phobics, felt sick enough to go to one. Two days in the hospital later... Good Lord. I got a little writing done, but less than 1/2 of what I wanted.

Am really going to put the pedal to the proverbial metal... as soon as I am strong enough to sit at my desk longer than an hour.

Chickens. More than salmonella people! (I refer to the live, bacteria-infecting kind!)

STKlingaman · Jul 5, 2009

My back story is taking over, 8 chapters
intertwining present and 100 years earlier.

Well another 750 words so far, and still no
end in sight for the back story.

God I love telling stories!

Goodnight Leesa

Elidibus · Jul 5, 2009

I'm just about to hit 48K. I have the final scene and some falling action to write. Each should take 5K or so. But the final scene...may be a bit more dramatic since I might play up that my MC hasn't been fully focused until now where it really counts.

Then the resolution. I'm going to write two endings. One that wraps (most) everything up so I can submit to an agent in X amount of weeks (months). And another that I pray and hope and plead I'll be able to use at some point that'll make people that buy the book stare down at the page and say...

"I can't believe he ended it there. When is the next one coming out?"

But that's way, way in the future. I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

STKlingaman · Jul 7, 2009

Just starting to finish up the pre-back story
present. Another 800 words, but did some
editing, so no firm word count.

They I have to finish the back story
(100 years prior, capturing and hiding the evil).

Then I'll move to the after-back story present.

thinking maybe I'm about half done, kinda
has that feeling, but we'll see where it goes.

Got it?
. . . really?
or are you just saying you do?

STKlingaman · Jul 9, 2009

Yikes . . .
I must not have a life.
Another 850 words.
Chapter 4 is at 1,636 and still pecking away.

is there anybody, out . . . there?

Elidibus · Jul 9, 2009

That's it. I'm done! Godspeed is now a finished work.

Sure. The ending is way too cliche (And a bit rushed). There are about a dozen details I need to expound upon and at least two characters' relationships need to change to fit the ending. As well as all the detail I skimped out over and the places where I need to trim down the detail.

And my MC Sharon changed a lot. But I have a much better idea of who she is now and why the story ended the way it did.

And then there's the alternate ending I need to write which sets up perfectly the need for another book. Man, I hope so! But for now, everything is happy for Sharon and company!

I now have 56,000 words to work with. I have plenty of wiggle room to add what needs to be added to make this a real story!

Boy, this was a lot of fun :-D

Now to start another!

JamieMT · Jul 9, 2009

Congrats on finishing, Elidibus! Way to go!

I have been plodding. "Life" sort of got really stressful for the past few weeks, and I've been having a hard time focusing on much. Thankfully, we're finally getting past it, and last night I got another 500 words done. I'm really going to fight to keep the pace up at around 500 words per day, if possible...not sure if I'll finish on time with that, but it will be way closer than I am now.

STKlingaman · Jul 10, 2009

Finished another chapter.
22,956 official total word count.

but I'm going to start chapter 5, right
now so + + + coming along nicely.

smsarber · Jul 10, 2009

Some of you may have noticed I've been absent. After my last post on the 3rd, I went to the ER coughing up blood, was admitted, had a bronchoscopy on Monday (turned out clear, for infection and fungus, thnk God), then Tuesday my heart went into atrial-fibrillation. So I am home now, since yesterday, and back to 75%. I wrote about 2500 words on "Kept," but won't adjust my total until I convert it from longhand to the text document. Plus about 3,000 words on two new short stories. Being bed-ridden can do wonders for inspiring you to write. Of course, with all the pain-killers, lack of sleep from numerous blood tests, IV-changings, plus I kept blowing my IV's--antibiotics wreak havok on your veins--concentration can be difficult. Cool thing was I had my portable DVD player, a hundred dvds, and read the last 150 pages of "Life Expectancy" by D. Koontz, "Winter Moon," by D. Koontz, and then in one day "Daniel X," by James Patterson. Then the first 100 pages of "Lisey's Story," by S. King. I kept busy.

smsarber · Jul 10, 2009

Elidibus said:
That's it. I'm done! Godspeed is now a finished work.

Congrats!! :hooray:

bettielee · Jul 12, 2009

Well. I have come to throw myself on the tribunal. I did not get back to work, even after I was well enough to work.... I have lost 2 weeks.

Crap. It sucks. Oh well. I am back at work as of today - got 7 pages done and did some scratching on ideas... I am much closer to the end than I thought!

On a side note, I also signed up for nanowrimo- with the full intention of being ready to start book III for it.

smsarber · Jul 12, 2009

Between the new meds (for keeping my heart in control til I see the cardiologist on the 28th) and the broken ribs, I haven't gotten the longhand pages transcribed into the computer as fast as I'd hoped. But I'm almost done. One chapter to type up, then on to fresh words.

STKlingaman · Jul 13, 2009

Yikes . . .
I took a couple days off wrote maybe
500 words, and another 300 today.

Still taking the challenge.

bettielee · Jul 13, 2009

I got 6 pages tonight. Growing ever closer!

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