August 2020 Challenge - Write Every Day!

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Day 11: Revised Chapter 7, about 2K words.

Layla: Way to beat the page.

Keithy: That rascal Rodney.

ChaseJxyz: Feel better. I'm with you on the day job busy season. Come on October!

Cindyt: Nice word count!

April: Wow, half the book! That is stupendous.

inspector: Welcome! Glad you're here.

The Second Moon: Great word count. That scene sounds fun!

starrystorm: Feel better!

Woollybear: Love reading about your process. So helpful. More please!
 

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Keithy, nice work with at 808 & the other stuff
Chase, hugs and much feelz
Cindy congrats on the 375, and here’s to connectivity
April, good chapter is good!
Hello inspector & welcome :)
Moon, congrats on the 672 (I spect most of us have been there…)
starry, that sux. Hope your feel better soon
Animad, congrats on that 1K
woolly, way to keep at it!
Gough, congrats on chapter 7 :D


Day 11


WIP - added words
R/SC - did dishes, & a wee bit of laundry
BP/$$ - job 12.5 hours
 

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Chase – wishing you well.
Cindy – good luck with the modem. 375 is good when you’ve got trouble with computers.
April –you’ll get there.
Inspector – welcome aboard!
Second moon – 762 words is pretty good, and I like the sound of the work.
Starrystorm – get well soon.
Woolybear – good luck with those tasks. And poor secondary character.
Animad – in the 1K club, yay.
Wgough –good revising there.
Layla – good words added.

My progress today.

Dustworld: 556 words. Sex session over, Rodney’s other love interest turns up and they find the books the duchess wants. We get some plot details about moons. There used to be one in ancient times, then another turned up.

More reading done on Demon Hunter. One or two issues found in the latest chapter. Ella gets upset then Shana convinces her she doesn’t want to be her master’s second apprentice (frowned upon).

Spent some time looking for a surname for Nicole in Fire Witch.

worked out a provisional schedule for the rest of they year.

Non-writing

Won at trivial pursuit twice.
 

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Had to abandon the one story I was rewriting. It was taking me to too many dark places that I didn't need to be in. On the bright side, I got an idea for a new mystery short. Fleshing out the concept now.
 
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Day 11 --- 2,252 words!!!!! :hooray:

Holy Crap! I wrote all day yesterday on multiple (some iffy) project. I haven't written that many words since two years ago in November or October when I started my first draft of my now published Barney and Mr. Thomas. So. Happy. And. Proud.

(I almost posted this in the wrong thread I am so happy/proud)
 

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@ Taylor Harbin -rep points aren't working, but I know exactly how you feel. I've done that with some projects. It's a relief off your shoulders, isn't it?
 

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Second Moon: yes it is but also kind of a disappointment. I thought I had enough distance from the subject to be able to handle it.
 

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Welcome, inspector! This is a great thread :)

Second Moon: Excellent effort! Go you!

Get better soon, starry.

Animad: Woo, 1k!

Woolly: No there really was only one! Awesome job on finishing the third draft.

WGough: Happy revising!

Layla: That is a big ole shift. Well done for getting the words.

Keithy: Nice work. Dunno about you but I really struggle to come up with surnames.

Great job, Cindy :)

Taylor: Good luck with the fleshing. Yeah, sometimes we just need nice things in our fiction.

So, I finished the read-through of Book 3 yesterday and realised it needs a complete rewrite. Yup! The good news is a new outline kinda fell into place pretty quick, which hopefully means I've found the story at last.
Anyway, I have to rewrite this book by the end of the month. I did the first three chapters today - writing about 3.6k - and might start the fourth this evening. Wish me luck!
 

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Taylor: It's okay to shelve the project for now. You might be in a better place in the future to tackle the subject. We're not always in the right place or the right time to write all of our ideas, and that's okay.

Second Moon: That's great! Congrats on the big words

@everyone else: Thanks for the support. It's a little frustrating when I have so many good days and then there's a bad day out of the blue, but it's something that happens and I can't be too hard on myself.

Fashionably late for yesterday but: 235 words in main doc and 1,384 of stuff for later. I started writing during lunch but I had to stop because I had meetings to prep for/go to in the afternoon and forgot what I was going with oops
 

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WGough: Good revisions! My process is currently iterative, ping-ponging between reading for rhythm/flow, and monkeywrenching the parts that are utter crap. After the current batch of changes I’ll need to go through for flow/consistency again.

Layla: Well done on the housekeeping and writing and $$.

Keithy: Amazing array of advancements there!

Cindy: Yay! 501 rounds up to 1000, by the way. :)

Taylor: I feel that pain. Some books take me too dark and they go bye-bye.

Second moon: Yeehaw! Fantastic work.

April, I bet the next rewrite will be brilliant.

Chase: Well done on the words.

I broke the character’s leg and now he’s in a cast for the rest of the story. That solved a heap of problems, plus gave him a cost to bear for his actions in the first half. It took a while to find all the places to amend in the story, but I got most of them and will hope to catch any stragglers on the next read-through.

Tomorrow I plan to either plump up character voice distinctions for a few of these characters, or work on a handful of dreadful chapters (the kind that are painful to read), or take a whack at incorporating feedback from writers’ club. Not sure which, but will pick one of these to tackle next.
 

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Day 12 Still fiddling with Chapter 7. Day job and errands ate most of the day. And the heat index is 108 (42 C). That's as good an excuse for laziness as any.

Layla: So productive!

Keithy: Good gravy, that's a lot of work. I feel even lazier reading about it.

Cindyt: Nice word count!

Taylor: Sometimes, you gotta let it rest. Good for you.

The Second Moon: Holy crap is right! Happy and proud for you!

April: Congrats on finishing the read through. Wishing you all the luck. You got this!

ChaseJxyz: Another amazing word count!

Woollybear: That's some serious planning. Kudos!
 

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Keithy, congrats on the 556 (hello Shana!)
Cindy, nice work!
Taylor, keep up the good work
w0000t Moon! Congrats on 2K!
Well Swanson - that’s a way to have a day!
Chase, congrats on those words
woolly, sounds good!
Gough - the heat has been brutal here too. (north east US). Congrats on the ch 7 work


Day 12


WIP - added words
R/SC - walk in the woods, chores, paid a bill
BP/$$ - one housemate phone call, one housemate email, job 5 hrs
 

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Woolly: It's always interesting what ways something like that can solve problems. I hope he gets some nice signatures on his cast :)
Gough: I saw my Texas friends complaining about the heat. I hope you stayed cool!
Layla: A walk in the woods sounds very nice
Cindyt: good job on the words

1,252 words, but it's more pages than that since I put in 1,633 of stuff written earlier (the mentor stuff). I'm sure many of those words will end up on the cutting room floor. But it solved some of the issues I was having getting words out and it's setting things up nicely for when [character] dies next chapter.
 

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Day 12 -- 1,306 words.

Yes! Hit the 1K club again, although yesterday, I went to the more exclusive 2K club.


April - I've been pondering rewriting what I have of Sky Beast because I haven't fallen in love with the MC, but that type of thing sometimes takes time. Funny thing is...she complements the story, the other characters, and the book's message perfectly, so I can't really scrap her.

ChaseJxyz - Wow! You seem to be able to do 1K words easily. Good for you.

Wooly - I was gonna say break a leg with your plotting, but you already broke a leg. :D

WGough - Woah! That's hot and I live in the panhandle of Florida.

Layla - A walk in the nice shady woods sounds nice.

Cindy - Good job
 

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Edited Chapter 9 of my novel after letting it sit for a while. I'm going to try to get back on the project in earnest, as time allows.
 

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Welcome icedesperado! Well done on your 1k!

Day 13: 400 words.
 

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Woolly: Nice work with the breakage :) I’m very impressed by your organised revision process.

WGough: The fact that you can do anything in that heat is very impressive. It was 22 here yesterday and I was toiling. Hope it cools down soon.

Layla: Nice work. Sending icy blasts your way too.

Cindyt: Great count!

Chase: Excellent effort :) I’m glad to hear you’re being kind to yourself when those bad days strike.

Second: Nice 1.3k. FWIW, I’ve found total rewrites to be easier than editing existing material.

Taylor: Great job editing Chap 9.

Welcome, ice! Excellent start to the thread :)

Animad: Great count :)

I rewrote Chaps 4-6 today: about 4337. I’m worried this draft is still going to be a bit short, but I can figure out where to add more stuff in once I reach the end. The majority of the old stuff is being chucked, which I suppose is a good thing given how crap it was. Anyway, six chapters down, fourteen to go!
 

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Cindy – great 501 and 745 there. Are you doing any research?
Taylor – happy fleshing out!
Second moon – you’re a word machine! Multiple hat doffings sent your way.
April – oooh you’ve got your work cut out. Good luck! I know I would have no chance of meeting that deadline. You’re have at it though (I read your second post)
Chase – yeah, everyone has shit days. I sorta ease back to normal via something unimportant.
Layla – Shana says hello back to you. She’s a good kid really, a bit impulsive and thinks that nothing can hurt her (and she considerable reason to believe that)

I forgot to post yesterday

Dustworld 879 & 1317 words.

Demon hunter: read some more – still no massive problems.
 
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Day 13 Chapter 8, at 7K+ words, needs radical restructuring. I've started outlining and summarizing scenes to help with logic and time issues. And I need to do more research on ergot poisoning. Fun stuff! This one's gonna take a while. Too much hot!

Layla: Way to do all the things!

Cindyt: Nice word count!

ChaseJxyz: Way to kick 1K! Glad to see someone else writing scenes/passages out of order. Yes, Texans will complain about the heat.

The Second Moon: Another 1K-er. Way to go! You feel my pain. Hopefully, this wave will break Monday.

Taylor: Nice progress!

icedesperado: Welcome! And right out of the gate with 1K+!

Animad345: Congrats on beating the page!

April: Today was 42 C. Seeing how you've already got six chapters down (that is effing amazing, btw), I should maybe try your total rewrite method on this beast of a chapter. You're nearly halfway there!

Keithy: Still amazed at all those irons in the fire. Awesome job!
 
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way to go, Cindy!
Chase, nice work with that 1252
Moon, did you have a chance to sample the sherry at the 2K? Congrats on your 1K today. Enjoy the table d’hote ;)
Nice work, Taylor
Hello ice & welcome. Congrats on the 1204!
Animad - wtg with that 400
Dang April. That’s some serious words. nice!
Keithy, congrats on all the work and the light at the end of the tunnel
Gough, way to keep at it (despite the heat)


Day 13


WIP - some revising, added some words
R/SC - cookies. c-drama
BP/$$ - 12.5 hour shift; housemate phone call
 

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WGough: Fiddling in the heat is admirable. Keep at it, iced tea.
Layla: Walking in the heat is admirable. Cookies more so.
Cindy: Congrats on more words!
Chase: The setup sounds like a good place to be sitting.
Second Moon: Well done!
Taylor, good to hear you are still plugging on that manuscript. I hope it behaves for you.
Ice desperado: Congrats.
Animad: 400 is good.
April: 30% is awesome!
Keithy:Amazing to see the threads coming together.

I struggled through one of the four or five crap chapters again. It is better. Still crap, but better. Part of the problem is length--it is11K words, really three chapter-length scenes. I'll break it apart at some point. It is the sequence when the reluctant heroine is being swayed to answer the call, and it takes a few different groups and arguments to get her there.

It's better.

Tomorrow I might tackle another crap chapter.
 

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Thank you for the warm welcome :)

Animad: Great job!
April: Way to go on the chapters!
Keithy: I am super intrigued by your Christmas time travel concept and impressed by how much you can multitask!
Gough: I just google 'ergot poisoning' and it sounds deeply unpleasant lol
Layla: What kind of cookies? :)
Woolly: Reluctant heroines who have to be swayed into become the heroine are some of my favorites! I hope the chapters get easier for you.

Day 13
1,087 words

Speaking of heat, I'm in NorCal and we're getting what also looks to be a heat wave this week. It's supposed to hit 100F tomorrow. I'm might end up writing in front of my AC unit.