Word Counts and Updates

[Speak With Animals]

Today's Wordcount: 1,146
Total: 7,509
Left to Goal: 17,491

Two slow-ish days in a row, but that's okay. Progress is progress! My exposition-heavy flashback ended on a real high, something that felt like a powerful moment and a solid line, and I'm at least looking at the whole scene with the confidence of "you may suck right now, but at least I can move on to the next bit and come back to you another time".

 

[Tallyfire]

I'm at least looking at the whole scene with the confidence of "you may suck right now, but at least I can move on to the next bit and come back to you another time".

Hear, hear!

I love the chaotic good energy of this thread.

 

[Speak With Animals]

It's definitely the most positive and encouraging thing that's helped with my writing lately! It's great to see so many people dealing with so much nonsense but still just cracking on and giving it their best

 

[twiget]

Does writing code count towards one's daily output? I'm gonna guess no.

Actual human readable words today: 1,103 and I finished another chapter in my urban fantasy story. Things are starting to pick up and my MC is starting to realize just how far in over his head he is.

6,833/30,000 which is ~22.8%.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Oogatz. Been pulling 18 hour days all week. Means to an end.

 

[big soft moose]

Another four K into my second project, thats now on 42k and change.... that ones about a guy setting up a sculpture business, but at the same time he's also a minor criminal who's got himself in a bit too deep stealing from someone he really shouldn't

 

[CatrionaGrace]

14,272.

Just under 2380 words a day. Seems high, but the computer did the math, not me, so maybe that's right. If I write fast enough, perhaps I'll reach 50,000 words before that wall inevitably springs from the ground in front of me.

The temptation at this point is to spend time moving things around to approriate positions in the storyline. Once I'm done for the day, I need to be done and go do other things. Hmm. Plans. Must make plans that don't involve computers.

I think I'll go pull out the pattern for my granddaughter's Red Riding Hood cape, cut out the pieces I need, and iron them in anticipation of laying them on fabric tomorrow.

 

[Dogberry's Watch]

480 today. Woo! Total 4861 out of 15k. It's been real. It's been fun. I'd even go so far as to say it's been real fun.

 

[buttercream]

Finally broke 5k!

Hoping to hunker down this weekend and get as close to caught up as possible.

 

[Catrin Lewis]

Another four K into my second project, thats now on 42k and change.... that ones about a guy setting up a sculpture business, but at the same time he's also a minor criminal who's got himself in a bit too deep stealing from someone he really shouldn't

You are a bullmoose of the first water. Whatever that means. It's a compliment, anyway.

EDIT--- Just looked it up. What a mixed metaphor. Diamonds and oversized ferocious cervidae. Wow.

 

[Catrin Lewis]

Day 6:

To my utter shock, after a day of procrastination, I managed to add 1,708 words to my novella, for a total of 8,314.

Admittedly, that includes the lines where I changed my mind and stuck in a different scene or wrote the scene differently. Haven't deleted any of the old stuff, just fenced it off ///like this.///

 

[Catrin Lewis]

14,272.

Just under 2380 words a day. Seems high, but the computer did the math, not me, so maybe that's right. If I write fast enough, perhaps I'll reach 50,000 words before that wall inevitably springs from the ground in front of me.

The temptation at this point is to spend time moving things around to approriate positions in the storyline. Once I'm done for the day, I need to be done and go do other things. Hmm. Plans. Must make plans that don't involve computers.

I think I'll go pull out the pattern for my granddaughter's Red Riding Hood cape, cut out the pieces I need, and iron them in anticipation of laying them on fabric tomorrow.

You sound like me. Only, I need to sort papers in my study. Knowing they're up there in random piles does corrosive things to my mind. Hopefully, somewhere in there is the envelope containing my season tickets to the symphony. I have to find it before my next concert on the 28th.

 

[defaux]

465w this afternoon and got to the climax of the next scene before I ran out of time. I doubt I'll get to finish it now until after the weekend, which is frustrating because I kind of had a flow going.

I also had to tweak yesterday's scene in order to land certain beats I need to expand on going forward. Can't really count that.

 

[Catrin Lewis]

465w this afternoon and got to the climax of the next scene before I ran out of time. I doubt I'll get to finish it now until after the weekend, which is frustrating because I kind of had a flow going.

I also had to tweak yesterday's scene in order to land certain beats I need to expand on going forward. Can't really count that.

Sure, why not count it? It's words on the virtual page.

 

[Tallyfire]

Just about 700 words today to get to 11031 of 25000 words.

I don't think the Captain's Log is the right format for what I want to write. The captain's voice is coming through now, but I'm struggling with the diary format. I think I'll change it to a simpler first-person recollection later.

 

[big soft moose]

Maybe you could do like startrek where the captains log is the start of each section rather than the whole content

 

[Sandor]

I ended up not writing yesterday because I had a bunch of social engagements. I might write tonight but I'm feeling kind of sick so I dont want to push it. Im hoping its just hangover stuff instead of illness, but I feel its probably a flu thing.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

15,782.

Got sidetracked down the rabbit hole of research trying to find out which Arkansas counties were still wet when the Newberry Act of 1915 went into effect. Several sites and papers told me there were 9 or 12 holdouts, but not one of them told me which counties resisted. That's okay. I called The Research Goddess at the college library and set her on the trail.

 

[Night Herald]

My first week of NWT was not a successful one. Only managed 3883/25000 words, and the quality of those words leaves a lot to be desired. This workflow of spewing out sloppy nonsense and not tweaking it until it's actually decent feels unnatural and unpleasant. Still, I can see some worthwhile shiny bits glimmering in the murk, and I'll try to do better in the next seven days. I'll elaborate in my progress journal.

 

[Tallyfire]

Maybe you could do like startrek where the captains log is the start of each section rather than the whole content

That’s an option I hadn’t thought of that would probably work quite well, tbh. I’m still very up in the air on the format of the novel as a whole, so I’ll try all kinds of things until I find what fits.