Seven pages today

[desperance]

I'm still not promising for future days, this week isn't last week, but still:

Pages: seven. Just. By working later than I usually do, and drinking more. I iz a bad Chaz. Hic!

Words: 2125. Probably all the wrong ones.

Zokutou:

136,375 / 125,000 (109.1%)

Excess: gotta have it. How much longer than long will this book run? I'm taking bets...

Stuff: is happening. Finally. We're trying to chase a fugitive battle, but it rains fire from the skies. People jump into the water. Like that. They'd better stop splashing about and catch up soon, though. Can't finish the novel without the Climactic Final Battle, oh no...

In other news, whatever else is happening or going to happen at Del Rey/Random House, I do still hold on to editor #3. For now.

That's all I got tonight.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Fire from heaven is good. News re ed. no. 3 also good.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

When you say 'page' are you talking about double-spaced or single? How many words in seven pages. I seem to be able to average about 2,000 - 3,000 words a day or writing days (but not all days can be writing days.

I managed 60k extra words in November, pacing myself in NaNoWriMo (even though I had about 9k in the pot already when naNo started, so I wasn't playing by the NaNo rules)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Double-spaced, with the typeface and layout that I like: it's not that curious US Standard Manuscript Format thing that some editors insist on, and I tend to get 300/350 words per page. Seven pages is safe to take me over 2000 words, maybe up to 2500.

And yay for 60K in November! I have no truck with NaNo rules (if you follow the rules, the process seems to me to be designed to produce unsaleable texts and disappointed writers), but productivity is always to be applauded. (I'd need to maintain this seven-pages-a-day thing all month to rival you; I did do that once - 150K in ten weeks, indeed - but that was a peak. A peak is not a target. No...)

[triciasullivan.livejournal.com]

Yay! Woo-hoo!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

2,000 - 2,500 words per day is very healthy.

Re NaNo. I have no truck with the rules either, but I like doing the daily word-count meter and it's always good to pace yourself along with friends who are doing the same sort of push in November.

I've done (and won) NaNo twice, but in both cases I've broken rule one before I even started because I've continued a work in progress, albeit in both cases not very far in progress. Last year I had 28k words to start me off and this year 9k, so I drew a line under that and attempted to add 50k - successfully.

I also don't agree with the 'no editing' rule. If I make a major change I have to go back and see if it's going to filter through properly, so I will go back and do quick and dirty edits, too. I still managed 60k words and a few rolling edits. I want to end up with a useful first draft, not dross.

I'm sure NaNo rules are great for someone who's never completed a novel before and finds the task daunting, but they don't all work for me. What does work is the incentive to: Get On With It. I found I was getting quite competitive if any of my buddies were pulling ahead of me on the word count, so it made me find more time (than perhaps I should have).
:-)

I do sometimes use the Zokutou web page, too, to get a nice little word meter thing going.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I also meant to say:

I've discovered I'm a burst writer. Your amazing 150k in 10 weeks would be the sort of thing I could aspire to... but then I'd chuck it all up in the air and let it (and me) rest.

I couldn't keep up the NaNo pace - but then - I shouldn't need to because after the first draft comes the interminable edit/s. I'm a bugger for multiple editing passes and not knowing when to put my pen down.