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| | Current Music: | Whirry noises from the fan | | Current Location: | Williamstown, VIC | | Security: | | | Subject: | Graaaah! | | Time: | 05:50 pm | | Current Mood: |  pissed off |
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| | Sometimes, I seriously wonder why I bother writing anything down, if the intended recipient is going to pretend it was never written at all. Literacy might as well not exist any more, it seems. |   |
| Off to Tassie for Christmas and New Year.
Verdi is going to be alone for a little while until ironicshell and friend turn up on Boxing Day to feed and water him, and then Kelly arrives to stay on the 27th.
Call Emma's mobile if you need to. | | |
| My little plan to hit 100,000 words was derailed by needing to sleep on the night of the 29th; at that stage I had reached 86,000, and I really needed to be closer to 91,000. I wrote about 7,000 words on the last day, but there was no way I was going to be able to write 14,000. I had given up on the idea of a sprint to the end by about 8 pm, and went back to my usual style this month, trying to write a reasonable quality of first draft, rather than slavishly chasing after the word count.
( Very lengthy novel stats under the lj-cut. )
If I printed it out as a paperback novel (my PDF is set to have approximately the same line/word count as a paperback) it would currently be 340 pages. And I'd say I'm only halfway there! | | comments: 3 comments |
| Except the word validator on the website subtracts 300 words compared to the word count in TextWrangler.
So, I only need add about another 100 or so words in the next 11 days.
No sweat.
(Actually, just doing a little editing added 1,000 words, as per below.)
November 20: ~50,600 words (a little consolidation of yesterday's 50k)
Foreword etc, 8 paragraphs, 1050 words
Prologue, 15 paragraphs, 804 words
Chapter 1, 36 paragraphs, 2344 words
Chapter 2, 50 paragraphs, 2561 words
Chapter 3, 34 paragraphs, 2000 words
Chapter 4, 31 paragraphs, 2247 words
Chapter 5, 36 paragraphs, 2410 words
Chapter 6, 51 paragraphs, 2219 words
Chapter 7, 91 paragraphs, 3660 words
Chapter 8, 99 paragraphs, 3442 words
Chapter 9, 66 paragraphs, 2423 words
Chapter 10, 55 paragraphs, 1689 words
Chapter 11, 28 paragraphs, 1378 words
Chapter 12, 82 paragraphs, 1831 words
Chapter 13, 46 paragraphs, 1410 words
Chapter 14, 97 paragraphs, 3429 words
Chapter 15, 111 paragraphs, 2793 words
Chapter 16, 16 paragraphs, 663 words [most of this chapter not written yet]
Chapter 17, 87 paragraphs, 2247 words
Chapter 18, 32 paragraphs, 1420 words
Chapter 19, 44 paragraphs, 1924 words
Chapter 20, 102 paragraphs, 3711 words | | comments: 3 comments |
| | Not feeling terribly inspired today, but will press on regardless... Maybe I'll go and write the "bloodbath" chapter. | | |
| | And I'm writing on two different fronts, having realised after writing a page or two of dialogue that it can't have happened yet. So that will have to go into a chapter entitled "LATER"... | | |
| | ... and my main character just lost his bollocks... | | |
| | Slow day. | | |
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