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It's that time of the week again, time for the kick in the pants. The idea is that having somewhere to report progress will spur you on to make some. So I'm posing the question to all of us here. Did you write this week? As we have been reminded in the past, writing for the purposes of this thread can mean just about anything you want. You did some editing? Report it here. Outlining, pre-writing or any other kind of prep work? Sure, that counts too. And, of course, writing new work always counts.
And NaNoWriMo begins! For me at least. I'm sure there are some Hatrackers also doing NaNo. Feel free to sound off here, if you'd like. After all, you should have some progress to report.
Last week I reviewed my outline for Rise Above to make sure it was ready for NaNo and then dove in on Friday. Since then, I've written 18,828 words and I'm just getting going with this story.
The other thing I did last week was make some notes for my planned rebuild of my Necromancer story. A long talk with a friend revealed a problem I'd missed and it's interesting to see how that's changing so many things. I think it'll be a better story when I'm done with it though. However, that's a problem for, oh say, December. Right now, it's time to lose myself in RA.
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Yes, I wrote! Still working on some revisions to both MAGIC AND POWER and THE SHAMAN'S CURSE. Stymied on WEIRD OZ until I figure out a few things. But, this morning I picked up another oldie, DREAMER'S ROSE, and words started to flow! Feels really good.
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Laid down another full chapter of the Digby Collier novel, transitioning from the mean streets of Planet Veskilos to the rocketship Lady Tye. I'm currently having some issues with introducing the eccentric and wildly mismatched crew of the Lady, mostly scenes coming out more comical than I intended. I'm afraid that'll kill the pacing, but old habits die hard.
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quote:Originally posted by MattLeo: Laid down another full chapter of the Digby Collier novel, transitioning from the mean streets of Planet Veskilos to the rocketship Lady Tye. I'm currently having some issues with introducing the eccentric and wildly mismatched crew of the Lady, mostly scenes coming out more comical than I intended. I'm afraid that'll kill the pacing, but old habits die hard.
Humor works very well in middle grade.
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I did write. I am working on a Waxy Dragon story where she rescues some teddy bears form a baby closet monster. The hard part is figuring out exactly what it looks like, which effects how it fights. I am at the start of the big fight scene. It is already lame. I just now figured out how to solve a problem I am having. thanks for allowing me to post this note.
I had removed two large scenes from when I last reported on this and am still 400 words short of my previous word count.
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Bummed out from going back to work after my vacation, so only managed one session on Sunday this week...also, just before I went back, I kind of finished a crisis point in the narrative, and have to brood some about what comes next.
For some time, I've been meaning to pull a completed rough draft story from my files and start revising it, but I haven't gotten 'round to it...also, I sometimes like to wait until whatever I've got out has "finished the rounds," and the last market I mailed to has hung onto it for nineteen weeks now.
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Not much on the writing front, but more on the editing front. I'm in the middle of a grammar check for the novel I'll publish next. Not real writing, but it will have to do.
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I think I skipped last weeks even though I did write. But for this week:
Yep, I did write.
Almost put in I did write right but that's up in the air.
Anyway, I worked on basically two stories. Boy, are they long. Dr. Bob you must be rubbing off on me, but I used to write stories about this long a while back. The thing is that both of these stories were suppose to be much shorter. David Farland had a Daily Kick in the Pants about writing short stories-as oppose to novels and novelettes-and the way he explained it I would be able to cut way them down but I don't really want to.
Both stories are going to be over 15,000 words and both are parts of series. One is UF and is either the sixth or seventh tale in a series. That one I am working on at home. More than likely I will be placing them all in a E-published story set once I have seven for sure. I will be trying to get some published as I work on the seventh and getting the stories ready, I do have to change the name of the Mage the series is about in the earlier stories and redo a couple explanations of how the "magic" works. I don't expect any editors will like my writing though.
The other story is a steampunk-special Ops tale and is the second about this team and its lieutenant. I will be writing more. This one will be going even longer even though I thought I was ending it because as the team is trying to escape I decided to make the escape tougher, with hopefully more suspense. Funny thing is that the first story is tint bit less than 3,000 words. I will probably work on getting seven in that series too. As with the other series I will try to get the first few tales published the usual way before E-publishing them.
I have also done a bunch of notes here, on Google+, and a few on the WotF forum.
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