April 5th 2008

Thought and Memory

New words: 3,049

Total words: 3,049*

Listening/watching: Convoy. Yes, you read that right.

Total words for the year: 141,035

*This is going to be difficult to keep track of now. Officially, I’m back at the beginning of the manuscript, since I’m changing chunks of it. I’ll also be leaving chunks intact. So word counts may not reflect actual progress.

For the record, things are already slotting into place better without the character I removed. Some of her bits will be taken by a new minor character, so I can keep the useful things. All of her other subplots meandered into the unknown.

This is the crap part about being a seat-of-the-pants writer, rather than an outline writer. Though I suspect that not even an outline would have helped with this. In the end, I’m learning my craft with every word that I write and I can’t ask for more than that. Well, I can ask for a publishable manuscript at the end of it, of course.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

April 5th 2008

Thought and Memory

New words: 3,049

Total words: 3,049*

Listening/watching: Convoy. Yes, you read that right.

Total words for the year: 141,035

*This is going to be difficult to keep track of now. Officially, I’m back at the beginning of the manuscript, since I’m changing chunks of it. I’ll also be leaving chunks intact. So word counts may not reflect actual progress.

For the record, things are already slotting into place better without the character I removed. Some of her bits will be taken by a new minor character, so I can keep the useful things. All of her other subplots meandered into the unknown.

This is the crap part about being a seat-of-the-pants writer, rather than an outline writer. Though I suspect that not even an outline would have helped with this. In the end, I’m learning my craft with every word that I write and I can’t ask for more than that. Well, I can ask for a publishable manuscript at the end of it, of course.

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.