Weekly Check-In Post

[sineala.livejournal.com]

How is everyone doing this week? Writing coming along well? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!

For those of you who like to procrastinate by reading other people's writing tips and who could use a few more words on that Big Bang draft, I recommend How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day.

For those of you with a lot of spare time, there's the Absolute Write thread Learn Writing With Uncle Jim. It's geared more towards the professional-novelist side of things, but it's still good advice.

Hope you're having fun!

Comments

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Having fun? No.

A bit uncertain about stuff and thinking of contacting cheerleader(s) if available for some other perspective.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

No, not time yet to use ths icon. Just practicing for now.

Well, it's defintely going better than it was; I'm currently just over the rough draft limit. But it's all pretty much junk. And I've always known it'll take more than 15,000 words to tell this story. :/

I was outlining last night (and fell asleep, so here I am now), and I can see where the holes are. And they're a *little* bit (a LOT) bigger than, "." The story itself is noticeably lacking, development-wise (they go from point A to point M several times). And Doyle isn't, well, Doyle; and Bodie's behavior is explained better in my head than on the page. D:

Although there's one scene that did exactly what I wanted it to... :D
*One* scene. D:

The biggest challenge coming up, though, is in revising. The first half of the story was burned onto a DVD amid the dying cries of my video card. And there's the rub - I have no way of reading a DVD right now (am using a netbook for personal stuff), and I still have a verklompt foot. The first 4-5,000 words are on paper (with lots of markups).

I'm trying to get someone to get me over to the library so I can take the seven minutes to mail the file to myself. Unfortunately, that won't happen before Friday. So I feel a disruption in the force because I can't get into editing it properly, much less sending it off for discussion. :(

Well, I *could* retype it in if I have to. That's a form of revising. ;_;

[marjorammax.livejournal.com]

Tentatively waves hand above parapet: yes, I’m having fun – this week. I can’t believe the high I am on after three great days where I can’t stop writing and everything has been flowing perfectly. Well, not quite everything. Chapter 5 still has a big fat 0 word count, but at least I’m not worrying about it anymore.

I’ve a question though: are these mood swings normal - one minute depression, the next euphoria (and no, it’s not hormonal this time)? :)

Following my mini meltdown I just want to thank sc_fossil and saintvic for their encouragement and support in last week’s check-in post.

Now, where did I leave off last night? What’s that? I can hear my husband muttering about something called housework, but I don’t know what that is. Surely it can’t be as important as the Pros Big Bang? I'll just shut the door on him. Okay, so Doyle and Bodie were …

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

How'm I doing? Not so well. :( On the other hand, I found the link on how to increase your daily word count very enlightening. I now have a plan on how to make this bloody story behave!

(I do have yet another story that I've been writing on for ages that is almost at the minimum word count with a very clear idea of how to finish it (I've just been lazy) as a backup, should I need it - so I'll have something to submit on time)

I seriously reckon I should have just given in and written Bodie and Doyle in a fantasy setting like the damn muse wanted. *sigh* Doyle would look good with pointy ears, wouldn't he? *g*

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I'm pleased to have 1,000 words down now and had a total blast with those. My so-called "outline" for the story is severely plot-lite, which I know is not a good omen at this stage, but I'm hoping somehow *something* will happen as we go along...

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Having not looked at my story for two weeks, I loaded it up onto Kindle and read through what I've got...

...and actually, it's OK. I still like my concept and after a while away from it, the whole thing seems less awful and OOC than when I was staring at it every day and tinkering with it. It needs revisions and extensions and just more words, but it's there, the nugget of what I want to say.

I'm feeling rather excited about it again *g*