Okay, I’m about less than halfway done with the first chapter. 2,518 / 50,000(5.0%)
Tag: writing
Nov 01 2005
NaNoWriMo: Begin Writing Like a Madman…
… now! I’ll post daily totals when I can. We’ll see how well I can keep the pace up, go wish me luck 🙂 Oh, and if anyone is doing NaNoWriMo and wants to add me as a writing buddy, feel free. I’m ‘mdgarcia’ over there. 🙂 Leave a comment here letting me know who …
Oct 30 2005
NaNoWriMo: Annoyance Number One
So, I joined NaNoWriMo to write the next book in the Knight saga, and I’m being inundated with emails from the regional peoples. They basically set up all these events where ideas are exchanged and ‘write-in’s where I guess people bring their writing tools and write for three hour stretches? I’m not entirely sure I’d …
Oct 28 2005
Knight Commander: FINISHED
IT. IS. DONE. Holy shit, it’s done. I can’t beleive that I finished an entire book. Below is the final word count meter. I’m going to drink heavily, now. We should celebrate! 102,666 / 105,000(97.0%) Previous Count: 97,011 Current Count: 102,666 Difference: 5,655 Total Count for October: 40,233! Now it’s time to plot the next …
Oct 28 2005
Writing Milestone
I have written the 100,000th word of this book. It was ‘minutes’ and it was in the fifteenth chapter. I’ve never written 100,000 words in any one writing project, ever. This is huge.
Oct 27 2005
Knight Commander: Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fourteen is done! Only one more chapter to go and I’m finished with the first draft. I’ve already begun plotting the outline for my next book, which is the sequel to this one. Right now, it’s called Untitled #27 😉 Great title, right? 97,011 / 105,000(92.0%) Previous Word Count: 92,672 Current Word Count: 97,011 …
Oct 26 2005
Knight Commander: Update
OKay, so I got a little stuck on writing chapters fourteen and fiften, and so I sort of skipped ahead and wrote the epilogue instead. Look, if I get stuck, I just skip ahead and sometimes it helps me fill in the rest. It’s a technique I learned at a workshop 😛 Anyway, so the …
Oct 21 2005
Knight Commander: Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Thirteen has been completed. I have two chapters and an epilogue to go before I head into the first major edit phase of the book. I’m rethinking my final word count yet again, and thinking that I might actually break 100,000 words. By the way, my total word count for the month of October …
Oct 18 2005
Knight Commander: Update
Okay, so I killed chapter thirteen and merged it with chapter twelve because it didn’t make any sense to break up the flow of the story like that. So, chapter sixteen is now chapter fifteen, and all the remaining chapters have now moved up a notch. 82,008 / 95,000(86.0%)
Oct 18 2005
Courtesy, and the lack thereof…
I’m surrounded by fellow writing friends, and I do the reading and reviewing whenever asked, without hesitation or procrastination. So why is it so hard to return that courtesy? I don’t know.
