Kai’s book (total): 68,122 words
Kai’s book (new): 4,250 words
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sunday update
We’ve been passing a cold around our family this past half-week. It’s my turn now, blech.
However, in spite of it all, I did get words!
Kai’s novel (total): 63,872 words
Kai’s novel (new): 4, 158 words
I also got 700+ words worth of notes on a story idea (not Secret Project, but another project—Secret Project 2?) when a character popped into my head and started talking. When Right Brain dictates, I transcribe. Simple as that.
I took yet another stab at writing a synopsis of Quartz. This time I went hunting for some how-to tips, and came upon this post by Diana Peterfreund which led me to these workshops by Kathy Carmichael, and the result is that I’m much happier with my current draft. It still needs a lot of work–which I was going to do tonight–but *sigh* I might just stay in bed and nurse my cold and save my energy for school tomorrow.
How’s your writing coming along?
sunday update
Has it really been two weeks since my last update? Yow. January’s gotten away from me, obviously.
Progress on the writing front has been decent. No spectacular wordcounts, but I’m exceeding my 550-word daily goal (except for on Saturdays) by at least a couple hundred words. The writing is very slow since I’m groping about in the dark, thinking only a scene at a time, working with two new characters and an explosion of information (some of it contradictory :P) about the world’s magic, technology and creatures.
Kai (total): 59, 714 words
Kai (new): 8561 words
How’s your writing coming along?
sunday update
Kai (total): 51, 153
Kai (new words): 6,320
This week I discovered I need to schedule a day off every week, just for my own sanity. I don’t always have to take one, of course, but it’s nice to have it set aside, especially since fatigue has dogged me all week.
I also added in an unexpected POV, which will be fun to work with. I’m almost halfway there, and I’m almost out of planned scenes. Major brainstorming penciled in for this week, along with coming up with a few more honorifics for my languages and some thought given to religious practices. Hard thinking work.
How about you? Any progress on the writing front?