Category: write-a-thon

Today’s word count: 3888
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 35314

So much for just planning to write like 500 words and go to bed. I’m sleepy, and I have a headache. But instead, I just kept going and going. I would say that this section is probably the worst writing I’ve done so far. It’s going to take a lot of work to make it satisfactory. Though that will obviously be work that I do later. I also think that the section is much too long, and I’m going to end up cutting a lot out of it. But I’m starting to feel like half of this is just overthinking/overexplaining what’s going on to myself so I can make sure everything actually makes sense. And then later, I can remove all that crap because it’s very behind the scenes anyway.

If that makes sense. I’m not sure, considering just how sleepy I am. Sleeeeeep.

Favorite sentence I’ve written today: The mark she left on Newcastle was three corpses in a huddle and a trail of red footprints that vanished at the city’s edge.

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Today’s word count: 1455
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 31426

Day 14 and still going strong! (Please, feel free to reward my persistence with a pledge at the Write-a-thon page! :D) I didn’t quite make my word count today, though that’s more because I really need to go to bed soon (so I can wake up in time for kung fu in the morning) and not because I’m actually at a place where I really want to stop.

It’s all feeling adventure-y at the moment, and I feel like I’ve had a little humor today. Which is odd, since I haven’t had much funny up until now. But then again, a little funny is necessary; I don’t like it when a story is nothing but grim.

I’m trying something a little different this time, in that I’m making notes in previous chapters as I write. As things develop I’ll find scenes that need to be changed or modified or added; before I just tried to hand write the occasional note about it. Hopefully this will work a little better.

I’m also still trying to figure out how I’m ultimately going to put this story together. Right now I’m just writing it all out in chronological order, but I think ultimately it would be better to rearrange things a little bit. I’m just not sure how, yet. And I’m thinking probably some of the stuff I wrote about Hob’s (the main character) childhood is way more detailed than it needs to be, so streamlining that should help too.

Having so much fun!

Favorite sentence three sentences I’ve written today: “You’re not crying. Or screaming. Those are the reactions I’ve seen most often.”

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Today’s word count: 2746
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 29971

Had a rough time getting going today, but I think it worked out alright. After kung fu in the heat and humidity, my brain felt pretty melted. Still, good progress, even if I’m not really happy with much of my prose. I’m still moving forward and getting the story together, and that’s the important part. The rest, I can fix later with editing.

Favorite sentence I’ve written today: At the cellar pit, he unrolled the severed finger from the handkerchief and stuck it into the sand, holding it under as if he expected it to come alive and struggle.

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Today’s word count: 3410
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 27225

Got on another roll tonight. I’m very excited about the scenes I’ve been writing, which is funny since they aren’t really even in my outline. But I like this direction the story is taking. Hopefully it keeps coming this easy, though I think I may be in for a few tough days while I figure out what happens after this, and if I’m going to bridge it back to my outline or just have to come up with something completely different.

Favorite sentence I’ve written today: Hob held Phil’s hand between hers for a moment, fingers gently touching his knuckles as if that could urge him to un-die somehow, to erase the horrors of a body left for days in the sun.

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Today’s word count: 3457
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 23815

What can I say… I was on a roll tonight. Must be the two helpful kitties. And the full-size keyboard.

Favorite sentence I’ve written today: When she’d finished reading the pamphlet, just hungry for the words, she tore it up and started playing games with the disassembled bits.

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Today’s word count: 1235
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 20358

Short chunk, since I need to go to bed… and since it was a scene that had me feeling completely creeped out and gross and I just don’t want to write any more tonight. Ew ew ew.

Favorite sentence I’ve written today: But after three years, Hob was just another goddamn fairytale like smiling Mr. Rollins, family friend and good man.

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Today’s word count: 2388
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 19123

This novel is turning out different from the other ones I’ve written because now I’m starting to use multiple characters to tell the story. It’s fun, but also a little scary. Life is easier when you only have to worry about one viewpoint, I think.

Favorite sentence I’ve written today: He stacked the money on the kitchen table, then spilled the little blue crystals from their burlap sack again, stirring them around on the wood with one blunt finger.

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Today’s word count: 967
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 16735

Another day of almost not writing, but this on was worse since I didn’t even start until after two. Not that I’m complaining, since the late hour is because I was hanging out with Michelle and Julie. Really, I only wanted to get in 500 words just to have something on the calendar for today, so I did almost twice that. Wrote a scene that I’m kind of on the fence about. I’m not entirely happy with it, though some of that is probably because I’m just so tired. But as such, no favorite sentence from today, because I don’t have one.

Favorite sentence I’ve written today: None :(

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Today’s word count: 2183
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 15768

I almost didn’t write today. I was completely exhausted after sleeping less than three hours last night, and then of course I needed to catch up with my friends. Michelle let me catch a three hour nap on the couch in the afternoon, though, and that carried me through until now. Even then, I was thinking about just going to bed, and she convinced me to write a little bit, just so I wouldn’t miss a day. Well, I got on a roll, and here I am, with another chapter finished. I’m pleased with it. Or at least as pleased as one can be with a rough draft.

And now, bed. For realz.

Favorite sentence I’ve written today: “That’s because I don’t have a name, dear one.”

(Not impressive in and of itself, but I like the conversation it’s part of…)

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Today’s word count: 2190
Cumulative Write-a-thon word count: 13585

I love it when my story jumps off the outline, when the characters decide that they’re going to do something completely different. Particularly when I realize that it makes a lot more sense this way.

Would have loved to keep writing longer, but as it is, I should have been in bed hours ago. I’m flying to Salt Lake City in the morning, and will have to head to the airport in about, oh, four hours. So yeah, I’m going to be pretty worthless upon arrival.

Favorite sentence I’ve written today: But it still had that wolfish tilt to it, the predatory glint in his eye that said he was just waiting for her to fuck this up.

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