09-13-10 Did You Write? . It is that time of the week again. Time to report on whether you wrote at some time this past week. this is the place to brag about accomplishments, cry about failures, and otherwise tell about what is going on in your life. We don't care what you write, as long as you write. Writing new is writing, editing, even if it is someone else's work is also writing. Word count does not matter as with some editing, reducing the word count is more important. Blogging, technical writing, writing assignments, world and character creation, poetry, are all writing. So is E-mails if they pertain to story or writing, and are very wordy. If you have to ask if it is writing, Our answer is YES.
As for me, I am working on one of my Waxy dragon stories. I decided to rewrite it from scratch, rather than try to save the old version through edits. I am satisfied with the results I am getting. It has a full feel to it. I am even getting emotions into the work something I had never done before. I have added 4725 words this week, bringing it from four pages to twelve pages. I love what I am doing right now. Yesterday, I had a problem with a scene that did not seam to advance the story, even though it included some of my best writing. My writing partner gave a few suggestions and suddenly I had the handle on the story. Earlier today, I was doing some inspired writing, then something caused my computer to reboot and I lost my work. I have recreated it but something is missing.
On the story idea front, I will be gone the last week of the month. I am trying to get caught up for all the days I will mess this month. I have 49 story ideas on my compost stack, and have posted my 17th story idea for the 13th day of the month. I should be able to get it done. These are all real short, not as satisfying a presentation I am used to but I am involved in some serious writing projects and length is one thing that went to give me more writing time. most are written in a half hour. Even these notes are shorter than they used to be to allow more writing time.
As to the question of the week,
YES, I DID WRITE.
DID YOU WRITE?
Posted by genevive42 (Member # 8714) on :
I've been cleaning and remodeling my bedroom and my computer has been taken down. So no, I did not write.
Posted by JenniferHicks (Member # 8201) on :
Yes. I polished an anthology submission, got back a rewrite request on it and am now trying to finish the changes in time for the drop-dead submission deadline on Thursday.
Posted by Meredith (Member # 8368) on :
Yes, I did. Mostly revisions to DREAMER'S ROSE. Some added material to MAGE STORM. Two blog posts.
Posted by Tiergan (Member # 7852) on :
Yes I did. As usual not as much as I would like, but still some all the same.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
I finished the current round of draft revisions of the thing I was working on, then...nothing.
Actually I think I like this one, despite its oddities, and despite its too-long-for-the-market length. I'll do some more revision, polish, cut, edit...then I'll see what to do.
Posted by pdblake (Member # 9218) on :
6700 words last week. Under target but only by 300 words, things got a bit busy.
Posted by Merlion-Emrys (Member # 7912) on :
Got a little done on a short story.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
I didn't mention a new timewaster here, though I have elsewhere---I'm getting around to a long-overdue project I have of cutting up printouts of comics and scotch-taping them into spiral notebooks. (I used to do this with newspapers, but, the last few years, the local paper hasn't had a strip I like.)
It does take a great deal of time that I could use to write...or even read 'cause books are piling up right and left in my house...but I'm fresh out of ideas at the moment and am content to wait a while before I've got one...
Posted by History (Member # 9213) on :
Nearing the completion of my first go-through rewrite for my novel THE KABBALIST: THE FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM. [I'd forgotten how much work, and angst, is associated with this process.] Hope to be done this week. Hopefully before Yom Kippur. >smile<
I began a short story.
Full-time work gets in the way, but I never expect to make a living by writing... Vos me hot, vil men nit; un vos me vil, hot men nit [What one has, one doesn’t want; and what one wants, one cannot have], they say--but I'm thankful for all of it.
Respectfully, Dr. Bob
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Posted by DerekBalsam (Member # 8471) on :
I decided I'm going to start answering this question in order to publicly guilt myself into meeting my writing goals.
This last week I wrote about 1,000 words in a YA fantasy novel, putting me at about 36,000 words so far.
I also wrote one flash-fiction fantasy piece of about 980 words. I really liked it, but instead of marketing it I posted it to my site since some friends had been asking me to do so. It's fantasy but mainstream enough that it would work just as well as non-genre literary. It was fun to write and fun to get people's reactions to.
Finally, though it wasn't word-count, I received a rejection on another flash-fiction SF piece and submitted to the next venue on my list.
Observation: I really like Duotrope for its submission-management system.
Posted by Owasm (Member # 8501) on :
I made some progress with my novel. Wrote a flash. Wrote my WotF challenge short story and finished my WotF story and sent it in using their new electronic system. Finished up a bunch of crits.
Posted by LDWriter2 (Member # 9148) on :
Not as much as I wanted to even though on a couple of nights I could have, but yes I wrote.