TIO regulars: WIP 30-day word count

I went nuts last week and wrote 4800 words in one sitting. Combined with the surge I've had in the last few weeks, I believe I've added more than 10,000 words in the last 30 days. I had set a goal of 250 pgs by the end of the year, and I hit it last week. 17 pages in a day was a ton, though, and I needed a week off. Planning on getting back to it tonite.

I'm rewriting a screenplay. I've completed 25 pages in the last 2 weeks. I don't know how many words that is. I'll find out and answer soon. My intention is to finish it before the new year, so I can get it to my agent when his office reopens for the new year.

And if you include my Messageboard Memoirs (a collection of all the posts I've ever made on the internet), that WIP got maybe 1,300,058 words in the last 30 days.

hmmm 25 pages?

and this your second draft too??

hmmm...

Not that good dclary.

The 1st act should go by pretty quickly.

hmph.

Bravo said:

hmmm 25 pages?

and this your second draft too??

hmmm...

Not that good dclary.

The 1st act should go by pretty quickly.

hmph.

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It's something like 20 pages of the 3rd act and 5 of the first, Bravo.

And you're right greg. 1 page per minute is the rule. This outline is a 120-page outline, although the original clocked in at 108. This version I'd like to get to 120 and then edit down to 105 or so.

And if you're rewriting correctly, the second draft should take longer than the first. Didn't take no time to get it down wrong the first time. Oughta take more time to get it right on the next.

dclary said:

And if you're rewriting correctly, the second draft should take longer than the first. Didn't take no time to get it down wrong the first time. Oughta take more time to get it right on the next.

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You rewrite the entire thing?

Yea i dont do that.




I was just worried cuz i thought you had to get this in soon, and the 1st act is usually the quickest (at least for me).

So if it took you that long there, the 2nd act would be a killer.

If you write the 1st act correctly, and you know what has to happen in the third act, the second act should write itself.

At least... it better.

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Not for me.

The 2nd act takes a helluva long time.

Not because I dont know where it's going, but just because it's nuanced.

But good to hear you're on track.

I've only been able to squeak out a little over a thousand words of new work, but I've probably done at least 5,000 to 7,000 during rewrites.

Frankly, this time of the year is slow for me, writing-wise. I don't know why. Maybe it's the build-up to the holidays, or trying to fatten up an extremely lean profit margin at work, but I just don't seem to produce as many ideas during this time.

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It's holiday season, which starts for me around Labor Day and ends for me around Easter.

And I hate writing during the summer. That's my summer vacation time.

Thank you.

I really haven't done much of anything since Halloween. I wrote about 500 words new to my WIP.

That said, I did print out the entire manuscript, three-hole punched it, and put it in one of those clear plastic essay folders, got myself a red pen and I'm going to give it a serious and what I hope is the final read/revision.

Shadow_Ferret said:

That said, I did print out the entire manuscript, three-hole punched it, and put it in one of those clear plastic essay folders, got myself a red pen

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All important and needed to be done.

I started my new WIP in early November to achieve a finale word count of somewhere around 60 to 75 thousand words. Right now, I have a word count of 55,609 Words.

As usual, I hit two snags right around 30 thousand and at 50 thousand words. It always happens to me, I have come to expect the magical snags at that time in my writing. This time it lasted for only a week, I think. I’m wondering if others find that same magical snag?

I write till I drop, I can’t stop when I’m on a role. I work from a mini outline; 3, or 4 words to an idea and 5, or more ideas and push it along (Down) as I write to eliminate them.

GPatten, are you retired?

Yes. Almost four years ago on June 2, 2002. It gives me the opportunity to spend the time I do on writing, and sleeping when I can.

Sure. Some of it's still on the web.

I've had several 'Humor in Uniform'' stories published by Readers Digest. Write what you know is clearly a crock of sh1t.

~10,000, but all in different projects.

EnglishDave said:

I've had several 'Humor in Uniform'' stories published by Readers Digest. Write what you know is clearly a crock of sh1t.

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I wondered why the quality of Readers Digest had seemed to drop.

greglondon said:

Anybody here commercially published their writing?

Me <- not yet.

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You fooled me for a while because I used to always see you at Making Light. If I remember right, you went to Clarion, so you're bound to get published eventually.

My current WIP is a weird retold fairytale short. It's the first one that I'm actually going to try submitting because it doesn't completely suck, and it's funny. If things go as planned, I can have it finished, revised, and ready to submit by New Year's. Hopefully Shawna McCarthy at Realms of Fantasy will like it. If not, I'll find some other cool place for it.

In about four months I wrote the first 85k of my first novel, so I don't feel too bad about not writing as much lately.