One of the challenges of database design is not just accommodating current needs, but anticipating future ones. I'm good at doing this most of the time, but most =/= all ( Read more... )

first novel revisions = 6097 ( Read more... )

(Crossposted, as always, from Dreamwidth ( Read more... )

the new novel = 5 ( Read more... )

the new novel = 1159
assorted mission stories = 836
Total new words in December = 1995

Goal was 2000 words. Granted, that goal didn't take into account the main plot of my novel disappearing out from under me. But still, that's just embarrasing.

Back to 5000 for January.

Thanks to certain current events, the plot of my novel-in-progress just fell apart.

I hate writing real world stuff. I wanna go back to writing science fiction!

I was reading query critique sites last week, as one does when procrastinating one's own submission work. A couple of random comments pinged in my brain, and I decided to try writing a pretend query for an entirely imaginary book, just for the practice ( Read more... )

I bogged down a bit in the middle of this month, for various reasons including a con and a (hopefully temporary) lack of plot. Which resulted in me coming up to the end of the month rather shorter of words than I would have liked. (The purpose of deadlines is not to leave everything until the day before them, despite what my college career might ( Read more... )

Keeping in mind that my goal is 5000 words a month....

The current novel: 9200 words

Holy fsck. That's a lot of words.

As will come as a surprise to no one who does this writing stuff seriously, the trick is to just keep plugging away at it. Yes, there are a few big bursts of output in that total, including Sunday's, but the vast majority is ( Read more... )

I wrote 2,264 words on the current novel last night. 125 were copied in from the "outline" file, but I get to count them on account of making them fit; the other 2,139 were freshly-typed and new.

I think that's the most I've ever done in one sitting before. It's certainly the most I've ever done on a single story in one sitting.