Right now I'm working on my characters, fleshing them out, and discovering their backstories...It's a lot of fun
Well, I've gotten the first chapter down and am now moving on to Chapter Two. Although it's laborious as I'd like to get to several favorite scenes that don't appear until later, I still take pleasure in it. Plus, I hate starting in the middle without knowing what happened before then.
6 chapters, over 13k so far, and my characters are experiencing the "getting to know eachother" events. I'm hoping these early events will cause some drama in the outcomes later on. This is like the beginning of the end of the beginning, just before the middle. That made no sense.
I've been working on a short story for about a week now, and it's got to the stage where it's really difficult to write. I don't want it to be crass, or over the top, or cheesey. I want it to be perfect, and I keep procrastinating about finishing it because I want to be in the right frame of mind for it. Aggh, it's bloody pissin' me off
I'm about to start work on the forty-sixth chapter of a novel (forty-eighth in total, as I don't write in linear order) I've been working on since November. My MC (an escort) is currently sat in an internet café, waiting to be picked up by the antagonist (a well-known musician) after he phoned up a radio show the antagonist was appearing on and tricked him into outing himself on a national scale. I predict a fight and I doubt the MC will be winning.
I can't believe I didn't even drop a line here yesterday when I was doing so well. Right now my characters are trying to figure out what to do next. This is after their entire world has changed....I know vague, but it's sufficient.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRH5wzCQQw I was in a really good mood when I wrote my first chapter but in a bad mood when I edited it. So, reading it back, I have a pretty light-hearted opening interspersed with the odd really dark comment or sentence. Very strange but it works quite well!
Why won't my brain stop giving me ideas? I'm halfway done with one of my final edits, and I just got a brilliant idea. I think I have to learn to say "no" to my imagination, or I'll never get this finished. It's 113k already, I need to trim it down, not add more story! Still... This one's a really good idea. .
Trying to fiddle one of my chapters into submission. It is the only one I really can't get working, and I don't know why. I've changed everything it at least three or four times, but it's just being terribly uncooperative. I would just scrap the whole thing, but it's full of really necessary information (one character's backstory, one character's alibi). I'm starting my fifth rewrite of it, and this time, it better work!
Trying to fiddle one of my chapters into submission. It is the only one I really can't get working, and I don't know why. I've changed everything it at least three or four times, but it's just being terribly uncooperative. I would just scrap the whole thing, but it's full of really necessary information (one character's backstory, one character's alibi). I'm starting my fifth rewrite of it, and this time, it better work!
Learning how to navigate the half-done phase of drafting a novel... getting a little harder because all of the easy scenes are out of the way, haha. I made a new plan listing all the scenes from chapters I need to write, that should take up the next few weeks. Really excited to be nearing the finish line (even though I'm only 60% done, maybe jumping a bit there)... and then I get to go through the WHOLE thing and rewrite it! again! and again! Yay! ...*tear*
The novel word count in my sig is inaccurate. That's just from the beginning. I have bits and bobs from over the first few chapters, totalling about 4,000 words. It's not much, and progress is slow, though.
Thanks guys! It is crazy and a bit overwhelming. I'm going to need to take a nice long break before diving into the second draft, but it's all worth it.
Currently outlining my sci-fi Loving it. But that's only half of the battle. I still gotta write it...
Almost, almost done with my current (old) project. Many rounds of rewrites & editing - done. Word count - approx 80,000.
Congrats and +rep, i'll be psyched out of my mind when i hit 80K words (sorry for the lowercase, i'm on a bad keyboard right now) right now i'm at 28.2k but striving to hit 30k tonight, and i might even hit closer to 31 or 32k as i'm at a critical plot point and know exactly how things will play out for the next few scenes.
Thanks, yeah it feels great. Not that long ago I thought I'd never get there but now that time is almost here. Good luck with your work! Definitely sounds like my kinda thing.
I finally got past the CHAPTER OF DOOM, and now I'm halfway through this round of editing And now things start getting really good, too, so I'm going to enjoy myself a lot more.
