And best New Year's wishes to everyone ( Read more... )

94,753 words
397 manuscript-format-ish pages
beginning, middle, end.

\o/

I wrote almost 3000 words in under two hours tonight. (Co-working at the coffeeshop turned out to be just me, but I found people to kibbitz with on IM; alas they were not able to watch my stuff when I wanted a bathroom break ( Read more... )

Didn't knock out an entire chapter, but I got about half of one, and novel now stands at 61,000 words, which is beginning to sound respectably like an actual novel. \o/

Which is to say, I earned my flamingo badge on 750words.com tonight:


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1. seanan_mcguire has a few words to say about how unevenly distributed the future is, in Across the Digital Divide. I'm sure it's been linked far and wide, but I spend a lot of time helping people apply for jobs during the two hours of internet time they get all day, because that's how we ration it at my library, and... yes. That ( Read more... )

My novel-in-progress has just topped 40,000 words which, in my head, makes it now Really A Novel. Uh, not that it's anywhere near being done, nor that there was any danger of it not achieving novel length, but--milestone ( Read more... )

Writing things ( Read more... )

( Farming )

Last Christmas, my mom gave me one of those little appointment books that I never know what to do with--all of the planning ahead I do, I do by keeping a series of electronic sticky notes on my desktop. But the book was too nice not to use, so I started recording things in it, instead of planning ahead: what I did, what I watched, whether and how ( Read more... )