Many among us write every day or every week without prompting. There are those of us who might not write for several months were it not be for someone reminding us we should write. This note is to remind us slackers to write, to open our works in progress, even if it is something new, sometime during the week. The hope is that writing will become a habit rather than an interest.
We don't care how much you write. If you write the RIGHT WORD, then you wrote. When editing, the word count might actually go down. We don't care what it is you write. The rule of thumb is that, IF YOU HAVE TO ASK, THE ANSWER IS YES. For example, all new writing is writing. All editing is writing, even if it is the work of others. Critiquing is also writing. Blogging, poetry, writing assignments, articles, technical writing, world and character creation are all also writing. Even E-mails can be writing if they are wordy and pertain to story or writing. The answer is yes it is.
As for me, I worked on my second Waxy story all week. I made great headway and got through some difficult scenes. I am thinking I will have to go back through it and cut down the word count, but it is reading a whole lot better than any other version. I got permission to return to my first story, and go through the suggested edits. I am about half way through that now. I am at a bothersome scene that I need to fix. I now know how that fix will go. Because of the changes I am doing, my word count is going down as I remove old scenes after I replaced them or made them unimportant. Half the story is still in a wandering ending. I would remove it but there might be some jewels I can gleam from it for my final story. The final work will be a whole lot shorter when done.
On the story idea front, I have 48 story ideas in my compost pile, including what I am posting tonight. Last month I ended one story idea short, so to make sure I have enough this month, I have posted story idea 27, for the 25 days so far of the month.
I explored some ornament designs based on cat posts I saw in a store. What I came up with for my cat ornaments look nothing like the cat posts, but they came out pretty good. Each time I made some, I changed the design based on what I learned from the last ones. during the week, I painted faces on the cat ornaments and was stunned at how good even the bad ones came out. While my newest ones look great, the old ones are quite presentable, nothing as bad as I thought. Sometimes a bad attempt on a good idea comes out great.
As to the question of the day, I am happy to admit
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Yes. I completed Chapter 3 of my novel. However, I also re-read said chapter and except for one scene, it's lousy. I'll be re-working it tonight.
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Yes, I did, though just an outline. I'm trying out extreme outlining to get ready for nano. The object is to have an outline plot point that will translate into about a page of actual text. So far I've got 115 plots points done last week. About another hundred to go and then tightening the outline before Nov. 1. In a way this is very liberating. I can get the story out of my head without worrying about using the right words, almost a free association thing. I can tinker with the story without grieving over my lost beautiful prose (cough cough). And since the plot points are numbered it's easy to rearrange them, add or subtract like I couldn't in paragraph form. Anyway, I'm enjoying it and I hope it translates into better actual writing when I get to that point.
Oh, also I did a final edit on my very first ever piece of fanfic for a contest coming up. Cross my fingers there!
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Yes. I have a WIP I'm very excited about and I did some revision on what I have so far. I will actually write quite a bit later tonight.
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Yep, I wrote. Sunday I was able to get in some good writing on Project number two. "New Mage On The Block" first 13 lines on the book section. My MC is fighting a griffin at night in a dark city and I'm eager to finish the fight where she befriends the thing. I decided that she needed some unusual friends so she won't kill it or drive it away.
Today I got some unexpected writing time and I wrote on Project One "Storm Born" My MC is looking over abandoned churches looking for a wizard. He won't find the guy but I need a new dangerous situation for him. Maybe a gang will attack him in one of the old buildings. And I worked on Project Three, "Kin To Angels" also in the book section. My MC finished her flight from a pack of wolves in a very foggy forest. Her pick up's engine died in the foot hills and she started walking to a ranch with hardly a tree in sight. Now she's back there.
I wrote out five crits last week, maybe six.
Worked on reformatting a story so I can send it out. Of course that's not writing just rearranging sentences and paragraphs, of course I did a little revising also.
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I thought it was the tell tale heart, it being near Halloween and all. When the writing obsession hits, it can be downright scary!
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Yes, but not as much as I'd have liked. I got about 6500 words written but read through my last WIP and made the neccessary changes to the first ten chapters. I'll get the rest changed this week and hopefully finish the first draft of the current WIP.
I also did a rough plot for the next WIP.
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I had a pretty good week, somewhat to my surprise. I wrote five hundred original words each day except Friday---then doubled down on Saturday with a thousand. I thought I'd have to unwind more from my vacation before starting again, but I leapt right into it where I left off.
My vacation vacation---my time away from work---ends tomorrow night. At the normal, missing-a-few-days pace I usually work at, if I can keep it up, I should be done with this in a few weeks.
Of course I've got, I think, four finished-in-draft works on my pile that I need to polish up and then maybe send out somewhere...I've got to get to some of them, and soon...they weigh heavy on my mind.
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Gah, and then misspell it - too early in the morning. Must get me some of that energizer bunny juice. Sorry Walexander - uh did i spell it right that time??
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I wrote, for the first time in a while! Not too much new, mostly editing. I did do some world/character building for my NaNo story which was fun.
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Wax, hummm. That's it Rox. You know my secret - I was just going to brick you up behind the wall in the basement, but now - Into the vat of wax you go to be the new addition in the museum.
I love Halloween time,
W.
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