Well. D. got the boys’ bedroom mudded, sanded, primed and painted a rather vibrant green. All the kids are still in the playroom for tonight, though, because we want the fumes to dissipate before moving the boys in. Still need to get dressers in, unbunk the beds, get Sir I’s mattress out of the back hall, take down the crib…
Oh, wait. That’s not the progress you wanted to hear about, did you?
Ahem, Quartz. So.
On the Quartz front, I’m eight chapters and 23, 664 words into the type-in. Total wordcount of the novel stands at 91, 325. I have a lot of new material to shoehorn in there, though. Here’s hoping the novel won’t balloon past 120K.
How’re your writing projects going?
I cannot tell you how excited I am for you! As for my stuff, got two and a half drabbles turned into four–of a series. These babies are going to get me under one of my main character’s skins so I can really get working on Radiance. Very excited.
I’m looking forward to Quartz being all finished. You inspire me to keep writing, even if I’m still waiting to revise. I’ve got ideas how to deal with my two draft issue and am planning to hit revisions again in a couple months.
Thanks, Megs!
It’s great you’re so excited! Is Radiance a completely new story? Novel length?
New and not new. Formerly working titled: The Rule of Calindria. I left it for a while (during my whole I-hate-every-single-thing-I-ever-wrote), then went through figuring out how I tick as a writer (must be utterly without purpose, except to please my own readerly sensibilities), and came right back to it. I lopped off everything but the second scene, which I LOVED, made that the first scene and am proceeding from there with a new title and a focus on JUST the parts I really want to explore.
:rubs hands in gleeful anticipation: Now that’s the way I like to write!
Oh, yes. Novel-length. 😀
That sounds so freeing! Sometimes I insist on putting in scenes that I dread writing just for logical plot progression purposes. I really need to learn that if I hate writing it, no one will enjoy reading it, either. 😀
Rock on with your type-in. I can’t wait to get there.
I’m 201 pages into the write in. As Holly suggested, I’m doing it long hand but this is a total rewrite. I’ve got about 80-100 pages to go. I got 5 pages today. Don’t have a wordcount because it’s long hand but I’m getting about 300 words per page.
Some days I can hardly believe I’m already at this stage. Other days… well, other days I can hardly believe how long it’s taken me to get here!
Wow, I’m so impressed you’re doing it all longhand. I tried to, at first, but I just can’t write lots of new material longhand. I start taking shortcuts and writing skeletal scenes because I hate it so. In the end, I did all my red and orange cards on the computer and printed them out to stick them in my ms. Green and yellow cards I did on paper.
You rock on, too. 😀 Every bit of progress takes you one step closer to the end.