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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #45 on: August 17, 2011, 06:28:56 AM »
Stuck at 109,000 words (rounded) on the current novel due to Toddlerus Interuptus. I am dead serious and not exagerating when I say it was easier to write in a third-world warzone with weekly bouts of incoming, power outages, internet crashes, dust everywhere, and 12+ hour shifts 6 days a week than it has been as a stay-at-home dad with a toddler. There's something telling there, and it should give people significant respect for housewives and single mothers :)

That being said, I have the rest of the book fairly well mapped out, several scenes written ahead of time ready to insert, I just need to bridge the gaps between them. If I am not up to 150k words by September, though, I need my butt kicked.
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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #46 on: August 19, 2011, 09:03:52 PM »
Hi everybody!  I've been trying to write 2,000 words a day on my novel.  Am just finishing up week 3, and have amassed 35,800 words or thereabouts.  I am typing this and patting myself on the back instead of writing today's 2,000.  Just FYI.

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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #47 on: August 21, 2011, 02:02:37 PM »
Hi everybody!  I've been trying to write 2,000 words a day on my novel.  Am just finishing up week 3, and have amassed 35,800 words or thereabouts.  I am typing this and patting myself on the back instead of writing today's 2,000.  Just FYI.
Nice job, I've been setting my goal at 400 a day.  My social life would tank at 2000 a day.  That's like 5 pages /day.(Given 10.5 Arial font so that a given page is about the length of a page in a published novel.)

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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #48 on: August 26, 2011, 04:07:02 AM »
Nice job, I've been setting my goal at 400 a day.  My social life would tank at 2000 a day.

What is this "social life" of which you speak ?

Two more issues resolved in the current pass.  I really need to stop flailing about and tackle the big ones head-on.  I intend to do this either tomorrow or Saturday.
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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #49 on: August 26, 2011, 12:41:56 PM »
What is this "social life" of which you speak ?

Two more issues resolved in the current pass.  I really need to stop flailing about and tackle the big ones head-on.  I intend to do this either tomorrow or Saturday.
Allright so it's as much my Minecraft habit as trying to get everyone I know to tell me what they think of my writing...  You caught me.

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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #50 on: August 27, 2011, 11:30:40 PM »
Two more issues resolved in the current pass.  I really need to stop flailing about and tackle the big ones head-on.  I intend to do this either tomorrow or Saturday.

Well, I've done the biggest.

It feels like it works but I have no idea how it will read to someone who's not me.
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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #51 on: August 29, 2011, 05:32:42 AM »
Hit the 100th page of my manuscript and am almost at 40k words.(Note that from some quick testing a page in a published novel will match a double spaced 10.5 Arial font MS word page almost perfectly with the standard borders and the like so that's what I've been using.)  I'd be at about 130 pages given college writings standard page.

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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #52 on: August 30, 2011, 04:35:38 PM »
Have been doing well with my 2K a day!  Have not missed a day yet.  Will break 60,000 words today!

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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #53 on: August 31, 2011, 04:57:43 PM »

I would say I haven't written anything since I last posted in thread, then I compiled my breaktime notes(I make notes at work on break time) from the past 2 weeks on other projects....another 20 pages.


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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #54 on: September 01, 2011, 01:59:04 PM »
I've managed to add.... a whole paragraph >.<

*prepares for butt-kickings*

In my defense, I have a 15 hour classload, a toddler, and a pregnant wife, so its not ALL procrastination :)
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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #55 on: September 01, 2011, 03:11:34 PM »
That sir, is a lot of work.  I admire your fortitude and am glad that I have none of those children things as of yet or anytime soon.  I work with enough of them.

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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #56 on: September 01, 2011, 03:21:40 PM »
I haven't written much since classes started last week, but I hope I'm going to get into a routine soon enough that I can start filling my free time putting words onto a screen.
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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #57 on: September 01, 2011, 03:52:02 PM »
I must say, given what I'm working on right now, that Jim's handling of characters who have been compelled and mind-wiped is excellent.

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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #58 on: September 04, 2011, 03:52:41 AM »
Think I have another major edit issue fixed.  And it's a long weekend so I get to take another whack at it tomorrow or Monday.
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Re: The Accountable Writing Bar for bragging rights or sympathy hugs...
« Reply #59 on: September 06, 2011, 03:37:33 PM »
Another goodly set of fixes done yesterday. Wahoo.
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