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Did You Write? 06-11-07? . My Writing partner, Nancy, and I finished the two latest Waxy stories. They were originally one story but had to be split up. They are now posted to be read. I added about three pages to a new waxy story I am writing. It is coming along but will need a heavy edit before I even show anybody. I do have a tendency of "telling" the story rather than "showing" the story. that is what editing is for, to fill in the details needed.
I am two ideas ahead on my posted story ideas. My story idea compost pile keeps growing. In my "must post now" stack, I have 56 pieces of paper with the ideas noted on them. This is all with daily posts along the way. I am getting more than I am posting. I should post more ideas but am busy with writing and life.
It takes me about an hour, or as much as an hour and a half to write my story ideas. I have had few which took two hours, but those are rare. Generally, an hour a night is what it takes me to write my stories. It is scheduled in my day. It is important to me so I make it part of my job. Other things don't get done until the story ideas are written and posted. Luckily, I live alone so I don't have someone yelling at me to "clean the room, or do dishes, or take out the garbage."
In woodworking, I tried something I have never done before. It looks it too. I decided to make a three legged stool on the lathe. I messed up at one point, then trying to correct it made the error unacceptable. All I have to do to save the project is to make new legs, or do some cutting on the existing legs to make them passable for the project. My next one will likely have other mistakes in it. I have the wood so I might try it again... For writing, try something you never have done before, then translate your mistakes and errors into what your character might do. In Science fiction, the character might be assembling a kit as part of a repair. It does not work and his corrections work out even worse. For fantasy, your character might be building an emergency shelter and it does not hold up or protect him from the weather. Use your real life experience for the bases to show your character is not perfect.
I hope you are having a wonderful week
and I hope you write, even if you did not last week.
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does it count if it's editing what I've already written? Man, am i getting sick of editing! But I am sorting of holding out the writing as a reward for finishing the editing, - footwork first. I just have a couple of chapters to go to the end, and my writing group got what they had already read back to me. Now I am inputing changes up to where they had to read to, if that makes sense. ARGH!
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yes I did! I'm excited. I also got a new notebook. Geeky me, I think a new notebook is more fun than anything else these days! My husband got me one of those "Black and Red" notebooks that has quad-ruled (graph) paper instead of lined paper. I love quad paper, as I'm a visual thinker and can use the lines in multiple ways. Very exciting for me. Now I'm eager with anticipation to use it for my daily writing. I'm experimenting with writing more longhand, as sometimes I think I hesitate to write on the computer. Silly, really, but sometimes I think I procrastinate if the idea is still not well formed. With an actual notebook, I can jot ideas, draw them (I can't draw actual people - but I can do idea diagrams and charts and things), and then find them again becuase I remember where on the page they were.
All this to say - I'm excited to break it in tonight. I am at about the same point with two very different story ideas right now, have about 500 words written for each, but still don't have the full story arc figured out. I need to make more progress with both, and would like to get another scene written in at least one, maybe both stories. But getting the ball rolling and those first 500 words written is what I accomplished in the last week, in addition to all the other things I've got half-baked. That's good for me!
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For the first time in a while, long procrastination session, I did write, nothing I wrote I felt comfortable with until I started writing yesterday and before I knew it I had a new beginning to a story I have had trouble starting Posts: 384 | Registered: Oct 2005
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Yes! I was so stuck in chapter 26. It was really frustrating....but I cut some stuff and changed POV and I finished it. Woo hoo! so now I only have about 6-8 chpt left before the rewrite is done. I also added a chapter to the first draft of #7. now I get to work for three days before I can sit and write again.... ~D
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I only wrote about 600 words. Considering I've set myself a daily word count of at least 900, and I missed writing over the weekend at all, that's not so good. :/
I'm at around 9,000 words, and my enthusiasm for the novel has flitted away in pursuit of other projects. But, I'm going to try and keep going with this one right now, because if I don't meet my word count goal by the end of the summer I'll have far less confidence in my ability to actually do this writer thing, as opposed to endlessly planning stories.
Yes, I wrote, but not enough! Trying to plough ahead over this bump.
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I didn't write yesterday, since I wrote a whole chapter (5,000 words) the day before, along with some editing. I needed a break. I did some personal writing, though. I felt it was rather good.
I have one more scene to finish in my WiP and then I will take a break for some editing, and to write a short story I've been pondering for a few weeks.
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Yes, I did, too. That goes for yesterday, as well. I've been cooking up a short story and the key ingredients are in there. It's about three-quarters of the way done, and smells wonderful. Soon, I shall have to leave it in the F&F window to cool off. Posts: 3687 | Registered: Jan 2007
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I sent a novel segment off to a contest on May 31. Haven't really done much since then. I guess I should print off what I sent (I had originally hoped to have a completed long story out of it) and see where I'm at.
Oh, and I'm 37 now. Time for introspection more than normal.
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Does outlining count? My novel planning is quite extensive, with a very rich, detailed scene outline. I have very little time to give it, but last night I was up until 3 am! Made some major progress. My hubby thinks I'm afraid to start writing, avoiding the full text, but it doesn't ring true. I'm not worried about that at all -- in fact, I'm looking forward to it. I trust that it will flow. I just don't think my ideas are ready yet.
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I've been picking at the same novelette I've been working on since mid-May. Started as an exercise in cutting---but, despite long experience, I don't think I've ever spent so much time picking out so little. Started at twenty-five thousand...went down to twenty-four thousand when I retyped it...now it's dropped below twenty thousand. I started by eliminating every adverb ending in "ly"...then went through it line by line...then the last few days I've been taking out every "has / have / had" verb.
I'm starting to think I'm turning every sentence into gibberish...
Of course I've thought about writing other things. My novel cries out for me to come back to it (I think I found an ending for it despite making-it-up-as-I-go-along). And just this morning while at work (ten PM to six-thirty AM, the graveyard shift), three stories pestered me to sit down and start writing them. (I attribute that both to being over-tired again, and to not having done something fresh since mid-May. I may churn out some words with one story later today, if I don't fall asleep before then.)
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Now I'm eager with anticipation to use it for my daily writing. I'm experimenting with writing more longhand, as sometimes I think I hesitate to write on the computer. Silly, really, but sometimes I think I procrastinate if the idea is still not well formed. With an actual notebook, I can jot ideas, draw them (I can't draw actual people - but I can do idea diagrams and charts and things), and then find them again becuase I remember where on the page they were.
That's good for me!
