Meditations on the writing process, writing tools, ruminations, and occasional postings of my own work.
+669 = 50,379 of 50,000 (100.76%)
Tipped up and over.  But the story is far from done.  (There’s just a lot of fluff in the early bits…)  Going to peck away at this until November is over—see how far I can take it—and stub out the rest of th…
+1,804 = 49,710 of 50,000 (99.42%)
I know what you’re thinking:  Really?  You’re stopping with 290 words to go?
Well here’s what I’m thinking:  Yes, really.  These past two nights I’ve gotten a late start, but once I got that start, I’v…
+1,723 = 47,906 of 50,000 (95.81%)
Barely eeked over the minimum for the night.  Got a late start and an even later finish.  Exhausted, but holy shit why wasn’t I writing the story this way all along?
+2,467 = 45,149 of 50,000 (90.30%)
4,851 words to go.  10,163 words ahead of the “set†daily pace-to-match.  Roughly six and a half days ahead of schedule.
So that feels good.
But I also feel like I’m flailing a lot.  Like there’s a story in…
+2,050 = 42,682 of 50,000 (85.36%)
A little here, a little there…  Some decent scene work.  But I feel like I hit a wall.  Maybe I’ll just force a jarring transition in the next round and jump to that next idea.  Not sure how to get there from …
+1,760 = 40,632 of 50,000 (81.26%)
Just under 10,000 words to go.  Long week, what with all that was in it and writing on top of that.  But there was some good material in there—quite a bit that would survive the cut into the second draft, and more…
+1,915 = 38,872 of 50,000 (77.74%)
Stutters and stops-and-starts, but overall some decent output. Â Good action, introducing an interesting twist. Â Got things set up well for the next writing session, too. Â A few breadcrumb notes to put me back on co…
+1,744 = 36,957 of 50,000 (73.91%)
Grinding.  Getting words out.  Tough to slog through it tonight but I made it.  Tomorrow night’s will be better, I’m thinking—set things up for some action.  Get creative.  Get risky.
+1,733 = 35,213 of 50,000 (70.43%)
My favorite sentence in this project so far came out of tonight’s writing:
And the whole city congeals together in its motley mass, a patchwork of everything unknown the week before bolted atop the best well-plotte…
+2,153 = 33,480 of 50,000 (66.96%)
Not bad.  Especially considering a full day at work and “It’s Just Dad Tonight Night†with The Boy until about 8:00pm.  Some good material in there, too.  Though I’ll admit I feel like I don’t know “whe…