Jobation June 500 words/day--all genres welcome!

Well done you!!!

1516 today. Looks like some nice progress going on--all those fingers tapping keyboards.

Congrats to all you keytappers

Struggled my way through half a chapter and then went blank. Oh writer gods, how I need thee this night.

Right, getting some coffee as I await a firm kick in the rear.

me-a-monsteR said:

---I await a firm kick in the rear.

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One kick, coming up: http://litbootcamp.blogspot.com/2011/05/get-your-fingers-in-gear-private.html

Now get to work, Private.

Not a lot today, a mere 432 words, plus another 333 on my blog.

It's a little something though.

DocBrown said:

Not a lot today, a mere 432 words, plus another 333 on my blog.

It's a little something though.

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It's 432 words, Doc. They weren't there yesterday

Ok, another very late start today. It's going to be all about the plottage so that I can go back to wordage tomorrow. I outlined this book, and I'm currently having a lot of fun merging chapters before I write them. It's hysterical how many chapters I thought I had. About one per sentence as far as I can see

I'm torn. Part of me wants to take a break. Wrote every day for 44 days, over which time I've created 60000 fictional words (actually, considering erasures, closer to 70K), and I'm fried. On the other hand, I'm almost done. I feel as if I just write some danged thing for those last two plot lines over the next three days, I'll be able to call it a draft (the final 18K words are going to need revising anyway, no matter how careful I am today or tomorrow.) I think I'm feeling superstitious, like if I take a break now, the thing will never get done, I'll forget my people and voices or develop a block or a giant brick will come tumbling out of a glider plane and hit me on the head. (Dang glider pilots and their pet bricks!)

Anyway, you go Doc. I know you just finished a draft and here you are, continuing to write. That amazes and impresses me.

I'm still trying to figure out this stupid book, but for the moment I'm setting it aside and going to take my mind away from it, let my subconscious get onto it, while I type up some handwritten paranormal detective stories I wrote two, three years ago. Trying out Scrivener for the purpose, in fact.

Computer crashed yesterday afternoon, sudden power surge in the mountains. Delighted to see onesecondglace and mccardey did so well!

I wrote 733 words longhand by 7pm yesterday and input them this morning. I write differently longhand -- not always but sometimes and it can be disconcerting. Not sure if I'm just writing a false start right now.

Zelenka those handwritten paranormal detective stories sound like a great back-up plan.

Today, my writing is slow and my plotting is taking ages.

Same here Mr Mitchell, let's just keep going. It will be different tomorrow (I hope).

Sounds like everyone is getting a lot of writing done.

Lorna, I'm with HJ, push through, you're almost done.

1,113 words today, which is surprising because I'm still trying to work out a plot point in this scene.

My best day for ages - 1,433. Dead chuffed with that. I'm going attribute it to my envy of everyone else's impressive wordage over the month so far

thanks, hj and muse. I did write, 1850 words, and they aren't awful. And while I was writing, I heard a whoosh outside, and when I looked, sure enough, it was a giant brick that had fallen from the sky. But since I was inside writing, it missed me. Haha, fate, take that!

But this climax stuff, it takes a lot of words. Been so long since I wrote a climax, I forgot that.

Thanks, y'all! I only sat down to write again because I was determined to have some words to report. Got down a good scene, 487 words. It will need work, but is pivotal to a short I'm working on. Totally appreciate your gentle peer pressure.

lorna_w said:

Anyway, you go Doc. I know you just finished a draft and here you are, continuing to write. That amazes and impresses me.

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Aww shucks...

Wish I had a streak of 44 days of productivity!

I only write 3-4 days a week. I don't deserve a break at that pace.

1400.

Wrote the beginning of one character's denouement instead of the rest of the actioniest part of the climax, and that was a nice little break of its own sort. Some emotional satisfaction for a job well done for him, even though physically, he's pretty banged up. Will fill in the missing action chunk tomorrow where I do more banging up of him. Then one last line of action, 3 days of work. Then denouements, already half-drafted, so just one day there. Predicting Thursday, I'll have a whole draft, only the last 20Kof which will need significant revisions. Light. End of Tunnel.

WA, onesecondglance, keep up the good work--everyone else, too!

The plotting is coming easier today, so that's good.

heyjude said:

lorna!

I changed a few words yesterday, but I was mostly captive to an enormous to-do list (probably 500 hundred words on its own, ha!).

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All you have to do is insert that to-do list into a novel one day, and it counts! "Harry de Cop needed to find the killer. He needed to do it now. It was crucial to his job and self-respect and all those mystery tropes. But first, he had a list of things to do:

Mow the lawn. (etc.)"

Good to hear, Mr. M! Hang in there; all will be revealed.

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All you have to do is insert that to-do list into a novel one day, and it counts! "Harry de Cop needed to find the killer. He needed to do it now. It was crucial to his job and self-respect and all those mystery tropes. But first, he had a list of things to do:

Mow the lawn. (etc.)"

Good to hear, Mr. M! Hang in there; all will be revealed.

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Whoo-hoo! If to-do lists count then I've just written 467 words.