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Sep. 17th, 2006 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceOne of the things about getting up early, getting just a single page written before breakfast, is the way it really sets me up for the rest of the day. Once I'm committed, once I'm working, I just seem to keep going. Six pages yesterday, seven today: I realise these aren't great numbers by others' standards (the word-count would be something either side of 2000wpd), but by me those are two good days.
And as I've just rolled over the hundred-page mark with this particular project, I guess I'm taking it seriously. So I may as well 'fess up. It's an urban fantasy: the book I've been growling about for the last year as a sub-Buffy indulgence. Which it's not, to be fair, it just does start with werewolves and vampires and such, but really only to establish them in the mythos and then shift them out of the way, to make way for far more interesting creatures. Anyway, it's a jolly; it's meant to be a quickie, something to keep the writing-fingers exercised until I get working on the Next Big Thing.
It's got jokes in. Shock horror. And lots of lovely death-all-gory too, just to prove I haven't entirely rotted away at the root.
So I thought I'd do one of these:
(with the count being measured in pages, clearly, rather than words; it's the way I always have counted, day by day. And it allows of cheating - short pages at the end of chapters, squeezing out a last paragraph till it just tips over onto the following page, you wouldn't believe how many tricks I know - where a word-count is absolute.)
I don't suppose I'll put pretty graphics up on a daily basis, only those days where the boy done good, but even that will count as a measure of progress. Should you care to watch it.
And as I've just rolled over the hundred-page mark with this particular project, I guess I'm taking it seriously. So I may as well 'fess up. It's an urban fantasy: the book I've been growling about for the last year as a sub-Buffy indulgence. Which it's not, to be fair, it just does start with werewolves and vampires and such, but really only to establish them in the mythos and then shift them out of the way, to make way for far more interesting creatures. Anyway, it's a jolly; it's meant to be a quickie, something to keep the writing-fingers exercised until I get working on the Next Big Thing.
It's got jokes in. Shock horror. And lots of lovely death-all-gory too, just to prove I haven't entirely rotted away at the root.
So I thought I'd do one of these:
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102 / 300 (34.0%) |
(with the count being measured in pages, clearly, rather than words; it's the way I always have counted, day by day. And it allows of cheating - short pages at the end of chapters, squeezing out a last paragraph till it just tips over onto the following page, you wouldn't believe how many tricks I know - where a word-count is absolute.)
I don't suppose I'll put pretty graphics up on a daily basis, only those days where the boy done good, but even that will count as a measure of progress. Should you care to watch it.
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Date: 2006-09-18 08:13 am (UTC)Hell, I'm looking forward to all of your books, you know that.
And, when I get my new computer and (hopefully) get the printer to talk to it - which it wasn't doing with the last one before it died on Friday - I'll be able to read the MS of River of the World.
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