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riyirowe

Word Count!

Nov 23, 2008 20:04

40049 / 50000 words. 80% done ( Read more... )

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lurker2209 November 24 2008, 03:23:34 UTC

Yay for hitting 40,000. And there's always hope that you will end up with more words than me at the end, because I'm probably not going to write much of anything after Tuesday.

Meh...I need to do another 2,000 tonight and I don't want to. I'm not sure why. It's the murder scene--it's supposed to be cool...sighs...

riyirowe November 24 2008, 03:28:09 UTC

I know what you mean about not wanting to write the cool scenes. Sometimes I get to a scene that is pivotal to the plot, or charcter development, or something, and I just stop, and I have to force myself to keep going. It is probably some weird inadequacy thing...I don't know.

lurker2209 November 24 2008, 20:54:13 UTC

It's partly because I don't know how intentional it is. It's not supposed to be premeditated, but it's also not supposed to be purely self-defense. In the draft that I wrote last night, it was almost accidental. The bad guy grabs Petra's wrist. She pulls a knife on him to threaten him into letting go, at the same time as Simon punches him from behind, slamming his neck (and corotid artery) into the brain. But I can't figure out if that's being too easy on the characters. They're supposed to struggle with the fact that they killed someone who pretty much deserved it. If someone else had killed him, they both would have cheered, really. So if it's too much of an accident, their reactions feel out of place.

But it's written, and I need to keep going. I can always change it later...

riyirowe November 25 2008, 02:44:13 UTC

exactly, just keep going and come back to it later. I have to keep reminding myself that. this is nothing but a shitty first draft as Anne Lamot calls it, or a Zero Draft as I believe Terry Brooks calls it. Or maybe Stephen King. I dont remember. It isn't really intended for mass consumption. It is just so you can get the writing of the story out of the way. My problem is that I'm not sure I am liking some of the characterizations that are developing, but I don't see how to change them. And I'm not sure what I would want them to be if they were different. But i just keep going and then I will go back and fix things later.