For those of us who are slackers, or generally slackers, the idea is to post here each week as to what you did in your life, and also to report how you did in writing. The hope is that you will realize you are not going to be reporting any writing, so you rush a project open and write something, anything, so you can brag that you actually wrote this week. For those of us who are writing regularly, this becomes a place to brag, and to get the rest of us to long to be that productive and make changes in our lives to make it happen.
New story writing is always writing. Editing is also writing, even if it is the work of someone else. Critiquing is a form of editing, and is also writing. So is blogging, technical writing, writing assignments, poetry, character and world development, and even E-mails can be writing if they pertain to writing or stories. If you have to ask if it is writing, the answer is yes.
On my work in progress, I have edited another 163 out of it. This is all fixing sentences and finding a way to combine something or eliminate something. This is likely my best edited work, but it is still way to long. Each scene I have appears to be important to the story. I really cannot see how to remove something without major editing elsewhere to correct for the missing information, or to remove reference for the missing information.
On my contraband character history, I am not supposed to be working on it, I have added 1315 words. It is now on page five. As I write on it, other things come to mind. Too bad there is no story there.
I did well on my story ideas. I wrote 28 story ideas, and they took up 34 pages, amounting to 20444 words of pure drivel. I do feel sad that a few of them should have been developed more and a couple missed the point because I wrote them short. I had one story idea based on a song I heard. I wrote a few words down with the intent to fill out more of the idea. I never got to adding more information. I am looking at what I wrote and it makes no sense to me at all. A couple words were badly scribbled. If I were to hear the song again, I would remember the idea, but have not heard the song. The way the station is handling music, it is not all that likely to repeat it for a while. I hate losing an idea.
I have an art show coming up next month. I am working on just about everything except for what I really need to work on. I have "played" with all sorts of new equipment I acquired over the past few weeks. The most time consuming projects have gotten the least amount of attention. If these projects are not in the art show, it would not be so horrible, but I do want to show them off. They are going to be really good for people to see.
A dear friend of mine died Monday. It was his birthday. I knew he was not going to be in this world long, but he went faster than expected. I had been checking in on another friend in the nursing home for years and when she died, I shifted my visits over to this friend. I will miss him. He had sold me a special metal working lathe and he gave me a bunch of tools. I will remember him through the tools.
As to the question of the week, ' I can honestly say
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Finished a 1600 word short story (posted in fragments and feedback) and started on another one today. The one I just started was tough - I couldn't figure out where to begin the story. And it's my first attempt at a female protag!
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Due to being out of town and leaving my computer at home I didnt write until today. Dropped a thousand though. Ill make up for it in the days to come.
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I started a new story idea today, wrote up 822 words in it . . . most of which will no doubt need to be cut later, because they make a terribly boring start. (or maybe I just need to have a punchier scene right beforehand . . .) Then I got WAY too distracted playing around with CSS on a page made to showcase said writing sample, for friends on another site to critique . . . spent probaly *three times* as long styling the silly thing as I did actually writing it. :P
Probably ought to do better, tomorrow . . .
(I'll post 13 lines of the thing up here eventually . . . after I've figured out a bit more of the story and wrung it through a few lower-level con/crits on said other site. Which I'll refrain from naming here, as it's embarrassingly juvenile. Just can't stay away, though . . . ;D )
But yeah, I wrote this week! Which, for me, is a pretty big accomplishment.
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Had a pretty good week, revisions only. I pushed through to the end of the second draft of a short story, five thousand plus words, then decided I interpolated enough new material (purging some elements derived from the thing it bounced off of) that I had to write out a third draft, which I've pushed through fifteen hundred words of so far. Worked every day.
I've still got two other stories I want to revise, unless some new idea comes into my head before then. I'm relatively happy about it all. With the one I completed and mailed off, it's the most finished work I've had on hand in about two years...
(By the way, when I was going over my files, I found several stories I don't want to revise...some just don't engage me, and others seem, well, kind of wrong.)
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YES! Wrote the first draft of my first chapter today. 807 words. We'll see how well they fare once I reread them.
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Yes, I wrote a new outline for my Tyger-Lili story. It's a bit skeletal yet, but a good framework to build on.
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I think that covers the gambit.
(or maybe I just need to have a punchier scene right beforehand . . .)
