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kitchen_kink) wrote2005-11-30 11:42 pm
kitchen_kink) wrote2005-11-30 11:42 pm
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In just under the line...
Time on deck: 11:43 p.m. EST.
Words written: 50,049.
Number of those words written today: 8,907
Percentage of those words likely to be scrapped in revisions: 98%
Amount of actual novel really finished: about 75%
Feelings at this moment: rather anticlimactic
I had a lot of time to work on a novel, and I've completed one more than twice as long as this, so the sheer idea of creating 50,000 words in a month wasn't such a huge whoop. What was more important to me was to begin a habit of writing daily, to learn how to produce on command instead of only when inspired to, and to create something that I felt could be massaged into an actual, viable piece of work. And the result is that I have the bones of something that looks frighteningly like a fantasy novel.
And hey, check out my icon.
Now everybody go and congratulate anyone else you know who has managed to do this while also working a full time job.
Hell, congratulate anyone who even tried to do this with a full time job. (Hi,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
imlad!)
Words written: 50,049.
Number of those words written today: 8,907
Percentage of those words likely to be scrapped in revisions: 98%
Amount of actual novel really finished: about 75%
Feelings at this moment: rather anticlimactic
I had a lot of time to work on a novel, and I've completed one more than twice as long as this, so the sheer idea of creating 50,000 words in a month wasn't such a huge whoop. What was more important to me was to begin a habit of writing daily, to learn how to produce on command instead of only when inspired to, and to create something that I felt could be massaged into an actual, viable piece of work. And the result is that I have the bones of something that looks frighteningly like a fantasy novel.
And hey, check out my icon.
Now everybody go and congratulate anyone else you know who has managed to do this while also working a full time job.
Hell, congratulate anyone who even tried to do this with a full time job. (Hi,
imlad!)