Working on Dragonflame, and it's going well. I'm about 10 000 words in, but I don't have a word counter. Pen and paper and all.
I am working in bits, loads of projects every where, I seem to be typing on the internet more than reading or writing. Started my childrens story ages ago, then I have two small stories and a script all rubbish though.
I have the characters all set, and love them so much, and I have a basic outline as well. I've written random scenes here and there just to get a feel for the characters, and I recently started actually writing the book from the beginning. I'm just about at the middle, but I feel like it's going to be too long.
I have started writing on a new novel, my second one. The first one is at the publishers right now, waiting for the verdict of the jury! I absolutely LOOOOOOOVE the first draft stage, because every time I get extremely creative and can't hardly sleep for all the ideas that keep popping up in my head. I practically live with a notebook close to me at all times, you never know when the idea strikes! the other day I got this amazing dialogue in my head while cleaning. Yesterday i wrote the entire scene down. 2000 words. In this ms I have opted for a new approach in organizing my work. I have opened a new folder where I have different subfolders for the beginning, middle and end, and within these I have a new textdocument for each scene, sometimes for an entire chapter if it somehow belong together. I have also outlined all of the plot in scenes and this way I don't need to write cronologically, which I think is great. I'll try to finish the scenes of the beginning though, before going over to the middle. I thought about participating in NaNo with this, because I started just about at the same time, but found the timepressure affected my ideas and way of writing a lot, to the worse. I want to take my time with this ms, and I know I'll probably finish it in something like 2,5 or 3 months anyway. I enjoy this process too much to want to stress it.
....Mmmm. I'm at the point where I procrastinate WAY too much. I'm about halfway through, and I LOVE my ideas, but...well. I think I should give myself some sort of schedule or something because I've only written about ten pages in the last month. Bah.
NaNo was a bust. I only got 12k in when life suddenly decided it needed more of my attention. Now my writing inspiration is shot again... @_@ I have 3 sections left to write until the first draft should be done (20k words maybe) so I'm going to outline every step of them until my writing mojo re-appears. At least I can outline while I can't write. If the first draft is done by the end of this year I'll be happy.
Is working on NaNo tonight and hoping to catch up to where I should be. I've taken a break from writing on NaNo for a few days which I probably shouldn't have but i'll catch up as I have this whole week off for thanksgiving. It is currently day 20, and I am sitting right on 32,205. I would not have ever made it this far if it wasn't for NaNo. The furthest I have made it was like 10k before NaNo, and now it's just like I don't even want to stop writing on this novel because it's so just so much fun. Hope everyone who is doing NaNo, has good luck!
I acually did some writing today. What I'm working on is shaping up to be a Christmassy yet somewhat supernatural something. Long short story, perhaps.
I'm half-way through my first draft now, more or less, and even though I know I will have to do a massive amount of revision after it is finished I haven't yet stopped and gone back and reread almost anything. I'm scared what it will look like Maybe it will put me off the entire story altogether, and I really want to write this regardless of the quality of it. This will probably be the most voluminous first draft I've done so far. I mean, I have only written the skeleton of the story, will have to add some stuff later plus connecting all scenes together (right now I'm writing the scenes randomly) and I'm already at 45+K.
I'm writing right now, or at least trying to. I think I'm about 10 000 words in, but I didn't count. And I have to make up new names for a few of my characters, which isn't a pleasant task. I'm had my story idea for about 6-7 months, but I've only recently started to actually pursue it. Good thing, too. My plot is more developed now.
depends on the story.... i finished one, just have to finish editing. I started another idea, don't remember how far in. 3 or 4 chapters in.
I'm barely even beginning to scratch any sort of surface in my current project. I'm probably only about 600 or so words in.
For my new Sci-fi story I've only written 3,514 words so far. I've been figuring out the universe though and have loads of info in other documents to base the actual narrative on. I'm still trying to figure my plot out.
I'm getting closer and closer to a finished first draft. Exciting stuff, though I hope that changing gears to edit will go alright.
I have a finished first draft but reached some kind of block while writing the second one, after like 3 chapters. Everything feels wrong about it. Weird, I never had that feeling while writing the first draft. What happened? Have another one started with 6 chapters but wants to abandon that one too. It seems like this year got a bad start writingwise.
No, that's just a co-incidence. It occurred to me that I might take a few chapters from my story, change them a bit, and submit that though. That could work. But mainly I'm thinking of my current story as a novel-length thing.
Have around 68,000 words and I have been spending the past two and a half days re-writing my first 1-30 pages to match where I am now. I went from 69k words, down to 64, up to 69k again, then back down to 68k while rearranging and rewriting . I need to work on dialogue, but I'm pushing that away until my next draft. The parts of dialogue I have are either decent in my mind or terrible. I'm just trying to get the story and all the big happenings down before I go back and make it all fancy. I am currently freaking out because I think the first part of my story is too boring and it wont hold anyone's attention. I read it and it seems fine, but I don't trust my own opinions haha. Need to put my reading friend to work!
Just started a new novel. Already taking a break from it to write an entry for the Science Fiction Short Story Contest
For my main story I'm hovering at around 20,000 words. It's on pause right now though. I'm also working on my short story but I'm not even 2,000 words in yet because of school. Boo, Accounting.
