Comments | mizkit: Wiktory!

mizkit

Wiktory!

Jan 04, 2010 18:03

I reached the 33% point of WORLDBREAKER yesterday, which puts the 50% mark within reach this week, as long as I get at least 3300 words a day in. Today, thanks to a proper early start (10:20am, which in turn is thanks to going to the gym before 8, so I’m up and functional and ready to /go/ by 10am), I got in 3800 words. I am very, very pleased. ( Read more... )

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mizkit January 5 2010, 16:23:08 UTC

I have a lot of practice, at this point. :) Although except with my very first book, I pretty much always have had a wordcount goal, and therefore some idea of what points in a story I wanted to arrive at when. A big lesson in my second book was being 2/3rds of the way through the story when I was 1/3rd of the way through the wordcount--learned a whole lot about showing, not telling, with that book.

Interestingly, I also write to find out what happens next. As I've gone on, though, it's become increasingly useful to me to have a synopsis and more detailed outline to help me get there. Even if the synopsis/outline turns out to be wrong, it almost always has at least some good ideas I can still pick up on and run with, which helps me not get stuck.

As you say, different strokes. :)

madmiss January 4 2010, 19:30:54 UTC

Did you forget to mention your presence on http://www.gemmellaward.com/ ???

mizkit January 5 2010, 16:23:32 UTC

Um. Yes, I did forget to mention it. :)

blitheringpooks January 4 2010, 22:01:20 UTC

I can't remember if I was invited into toonowrimo by laura anne or if I just followed her trail, but I think I may have shown up uninvited. Erm, thanks for having me and not shooing me away.

mizkit January 5 2010, 16:23:45 UTC

You are most welcome to be there!

agrimony January 5 2010, 01:57:30 UTC

Yay! for you for higher book prices, but man, bummer for me on the trade paperbacks! :)

mizkit January 5 2010, 16:24:06 UTC

It was in fact specifically your own good self I was thinking of... :)

agrimony January 7 2010, 22:27:53 UTC

Aw! You wub me! You really wub me!

mizkit January 8 2010, 10:25:59 UTC

*wubs your tummy* :)

damedini January 5 2010, 04:00:33 UTC

"make my writing speed look like that of an absolute piker"

It's her uber-Starbucks habit. Rocket fuel. (saith the addict)

mizkit January 5 2010, 16:24:29 UTC

Perhaps I need to take up drinking coffee. Except I don't like it. :)