The life most real to me. As evidenced by the preponderance of posts.
31,305. One hundred twenty-five measly words. Blah. Damn, I need a vacation. I’m so tired of running everywhere. Why can’t I just stay home and write? Mr. DAW Submissions Editor, please buy my book. I can’t stand working for a living much longer.
But it’s an important less than three hundred words! 28,342 is the total tonight, and now I have them on the move again. And all because Selene tried to paint Donte’s toenails… I’m a genius. I admit it. 😀
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769 words, bringing me to a total of 28,068. Whoohoo! Things are getting more confusing. What I thought would be the climax of the story, is happening way too soon, and doesn’t resolve things like a climax has to. So it’s not the culmination of the collision between my characters and their circumstances–that means I
27,299–not bad at all, considering we didn’t even get home until nearly 8. Hope had her pre-test today, she has three lessons to work on what she missed, before testing for her gold belt next Wednesday. I’m so proud! I also worked out more of what’s going to happen, when the current crisis is over,
And tonight’s total–26,537. Yes, for those of you keeping count, I lost six words. But that’s a good thing. I made my writing more concise, more exact. Sometimes making progress means going backwards.
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The total for 12/6 is 26,543. According to my counter, 2,169 of those are “big words.” Seriously, that’s what it says. The question is, is that good or bad? I will attempt to post again tonight, with this evening’s total. Though I think the next few hours will be more re-writing than forward progress, as
I read CJ Cherryh’s writing blog regularly, and I’ve decided to do something similar with mine. So here are the totals, since I started tracking words, instead of pages: 11/24/04 17,192 words 11/25/04 19,345 11/26/04 20,181 11/27/04 22,403 11/28/04 22,597 (so sue me!) 12/4/04 24,554 And as of 18:57 on 12/5/04, 25,953. And that’s not