Here's a novel thought, how's your writing going?

I've still lost my ending by changing things, but the middle is nice and complex and fun to do I'm at another brainstorming point that makes me have to whittle down ideas, and I love that! And I hate it

This week? Not so good. This is my labor intensive work my ass off as Nurse Rached week. Only managed to get about 2k in on WIP. Next week though....oh, next week.

Sloooooowly.

The set-up is killing me, but it needs to be done (even if it all gets edited out later).

I've got to turn off my internal editor and just keep writing. Today's goal is to finish a chapter and start the next -- after I read the Sunday paper.

Btw, I try my darndest not to look at word counts for myself. I love those tickers people have in their sigs, but I can get a tad OCD about anything statistical. I write in software that lets me chunk things into chapters or scenes, and I write out of order on the 1st draft.

I figure I'll look at the total when I feel close to finished. And I'm not, by a long shot

Mine's going quite nicely...I took today off to go out with my husband, but tomorrow, back to the grind. The Devil You Know is sitting just above 20K, so I expect to have it done (75K or so) in a week or so. Characters are totally taking over, which kicks ass. And a couple of scenes have caused scarletpeaches to require a cold shower, so I think I'm on the right track with this one.

Also hit 800,000 in my pursuit of 1,000,000. 2.5 months, 200,000 to go. I'm going to make that million mah bitch.

vixey said:

I've got to turn off my internal editor and just keep writing. Today's goal is to finish a chapter and start the next -- after I read the Sunday paper.

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This is me! I started a new book last week and plopped down 3K in one day and then slooowwweeeddd to a grinding halt- the last chapter was pivitole nd I know its lacking in tension, but I have to tell myself to just keep going and come back later to add and edit- for me the key is to just keep putting the words down-

Bleugh. My love interest holds no interest. He keeps coming across as a wimp. Maybe I should have him hit something...


*has crisis of confidence*

*worries she's not doing the crisis properly*

*confidence plummets to all time low*

IdiotsRUs said:

Bleugh. My love interest holds no interest. He keeps coming across as a wimp. Maybe I should have him hit something...


*has crisis of confidence*

*worries she's not doing the crisis properly*

*confidence plummets to all time low*

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NO! NO! Forget crisis! Keep writing! Maybe wimpy love interest will shock everyone by kicking some competitor's arse or something. Just keep writing. You can always juice things up on the editing round if need be. (When my male character's start coming off cheesy or wimpy, I watch Fight Club. It gets me all riled up and POOF....testosterone.)

It's in the planning stages, and it's getting a little too comfy there. Maybe getting the first few scenes written will knock it up a notch.

BAM!

Here's a novel thought, how's your writing going?

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Swimmingly, thanks for asking. Here's the thing: it's not a novel, and I can't swim.

Oh I'll keep writing. I can't not. Maybe I'll try an exercise - 4 pages, first person, him telling me about himself

Or maybe she could end up with the other guy, who's rather tasty - but he does kidnap her so it'd be a bit *squick* to have her fall for him. But then again...

*has tea and ciggie while pondering*

*feels a bit better now ideas are flowing*

Thanks!

Tasty kidnappers? Maybe I should be writing a novel.

Wayne K said:

Tasty kidnappers? Maybe I should be writing a novel.

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Damn it! I thought I was quoting you before you fixed the typos. Awwww....I heart you Wayne. Even if you do drink and type.

Yes tasty

He's covered in caramel sauce

On another editing round, so pretty good. Only thing left is to rewrite the last chapter.....which I've been putting off for quite a while.

I totally went off of my outline. Which is a good thing. I got a lot accomplished and are introducing several good characters that will add more depth to my book. I had to take a step back to really figure out how to develop one. So, abruptly after 10 pages of progress - I freeze up. Sometimes this lasts days for me. (sigh) I am supposed to have this finished by Dec. 09. If I keep having these diversions I may not meet that timeframe.

Planning the novel I'm not far from starting. I should really just get on with it.

IdiotsRUs said:

Or maybe she could end up with the other guy, who's rather tasty - but he does kidnap her so it'd be a bit *squick* to have her fall for him. But then again...

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Stockholm syndrome

Um... I'm rewriting the only chapter I have so far (so much for not editing until it was written) but there was so much fluff!

What was I thinking? Blimey, I might as well have typed it in purple! *dies of embarrassment*

misaditas said:

Stockholm syndrome

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Yeah, how cliche is that? *squick* Of course he's using magic to help it along cos he fancies the pants off her.

I've been once again rewriting my first three chapters. This, after some posts in SYW plus one in the Novels forum where I complained that nobody seemed to like my first chapter no matter what I did. After some suggestions, I've changed things up a bit to create a new chapter 1. Of course, those changes require changes to be made in the subsequent chapters, so it's a busy time.

Plus, I've come up with an idea for another book, a nonfiction one, that I'm going to start putting a proposal together for this week.

Seller (see below) goes well at some points and slow at others - I'm at a point at which I've had to map out the rest of part two and I think I achieved that over the weekend so I'll be ready to get writing next weekend. I'm working on a very loose outline, which is the only way I can do this - I can't have a lot of structure or, for me at least, it ruins the creative process. With luck I'll be pitching by next September.

Beast, also below, is slowly being whittled down. I haven't had too much time for that, what with Seller and a full time job and cleaning the house and fall gardening ... and eating and sleeping and breathing.