Twenty nine thousand, four hundred and three. This is the number of words I have written since 10am Sunday morning. 10 chapters. 125 pages. A bunch of notes on what to fix. I am EXTREMELY pleased! 9009 words today, the last two of which were “THE END”. Ahhahaha!
I am SO PSYCHED! FULL of energy! Boingee boingee boingee!
I was very nervous about this project (I’ve never written anything novella-length before! I’ve never been in an anthology with MERCEDES LACKEY and TANITH LEE before! I’ve never–you get the picture.), and Ted and I talked it out a fair bit. I took a lot of notes, some of which I wrote into a synopsis and some of which I wrote into an informal synopsis and some of which were just braindumping. At the end of one of them, I wrote, “Wow, this is a lot for 30K. Good luck.”
It turned out it was just about exactly right for 30K. Now I’m fascinated by this process, and I really want to try it for a 100K novel. It really, *really* helped to be able to flip back to the notes files when I started to slow down, because I was able to say, “Ah! That’s the next scene!” and then write it. I’ve never been that, mm, focused? Before, and boy, if that kind of focus can get 10K a day out of me (AND leave me not wiped out!), it’s something I fully intend to develop! I may be on to something here!
It’s also easier for me, I think, to write in huge chunks, because there’s not nearly as much time to forget what I did at the beginning of a story. Especially if it’s only 30K long. :) But I think the theory would hold true over a longer work.
I am SO psyched! *dancie dancie dance*! I also learned enough from doing the rewrites on URBAN SHAMAN to recognize some of my failures as a writer, so I’ve been taking notes while writing BANSHEE CRIES on things that I *know* I need to fix, so that should make it a little easier when I go back to revise. It’ll be harder to say, “Oh, well, that works pretty well,” if I’ve got a note, written in the heat of the moment, that tells me that it doesn’t *either* work pretty well. So that should also be very useful.
I believe I’m going to celebrate by buying season 4 Highlander, which I just got an email saying was on sale cheap through their website, having a massage this weekend, and making my husband take me out to dinner tonight. *beam*
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WOOT! You so rock. :)
Very appropriate icon :)
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this recently, but you are the Most Amazingest Kit EVER.
*beam* Thanks.