The I'm Writing Thread.... Celebrate your pages written etc

[cenwolfgirl]

323 words so far to day witch is good
at some point i will have to get back to editing my other book (not the short story that is being left alone for now *shuders*)

good luck every one

[Zuriel]

Yay for you, CWG!
I've got your story edited, so I'll be sending you a PM in just a couple of minutes.   

[cenwolfgirl]

you servived then 
yes i am happy i got this story back on track witch is good
i actualy have written about 200 more since that post double yay

thank you again for reading it for me Zuriel that is rely very kind

[The Deposed King]

Way to go guys.  Team work and helping eachother.  Its a great testement to this Authorial Section helping like minded people get together.


Good job,


The Deposed King

[Zuriel]

Yeah, we merry little wanna be writers need to stick together!

I remember what it was like for me when I wrote a story, my first, and didn't have a clue whether it was any good.  Someone, a very brave soul, volunteered to read it (at over 60,000 words), liked it and gave me some great advice.  And here I am, still improving, I hope.  But without her encouragement I might have given up.

[LDWriter2]

323 words so far to day witch is good
at some point i will have to get back to editing my other book (not the short story that is being left alone for now *shuders*)

good luck every one

The one hundred was good enough for you to list here.

But I say good going for the 323 too. That's better.


And I say good that you got your story back--probably by now--all critted.

[LDWriter2]

Yeah, we merry little wanna be writers need to stick together!

I remember what it was like for me when I wrote a story, my first, and didn't have a clue whether it was any good.  Someone, a very brave soul, volunteered to read it (at over 60,000 words), liked it and gave me some great advice.  And here I am, still improving, I hope.  But without her encouragement I might have given up.

Pardon me for saying it like this but that is some story...how long is your novel? 


I should talk my first novel came in at 320,000 words.

[cenwolfgirl]

yes all us trying to improve have to stick together
thank you so much
i think with out all of you i might have given up by now
and i am rely glade i did not
yes i now have it back
now making corections to try and improve it


good luck al of you

[Darkshore]

Pardon me for saying it like this but that is some story...how long is your novel? 


I should talk my first novel came in at 320,000 words.

Yikes. I hope you cut a lot in revisions or split it into volumes! That sounds a bit like when Patrick Roth fuss originally wrote the Kingkiller Chronicles as one book. That's over 2,000 pages 

[cenwolfgirl]

i will never get a story that long
i am always strugaling to add words if i can (normaly avrage around 30,000 words ) witch is a bit short

[Darkshore]

30,000 words isn't to bad Cen. Completeting works of any length is a good way to improve your writing skills. It's around novella length I think, but for a commercially publishable novel the norm is around 90k I believe. It depends on the genre but I think between 70k to 90k ends up around 200-300 pages. I might have the same problem with my current novel. I feel like I'll finish the tail at around 50-60. Might need to find a way to make it longer.

[cenwolfgirl]

yeah i have a bad habit of getting to about there and then ending it
it normally is a reasonable ending
what i might do is put three books to gather that would then be 90K and do each story as parts instead of sprat stories as they are connected to each other
that is when i Finnish writing the other tow
i am about half way though the second one right now
i took a brake to write the short story

[Darkshore]

If you came form an overarching plot that connects all three stories that might not be a bad way to go. Good luck. 

[cenwolfgirl]

i think i might do that
as they are all conected but it would mean fidderling with the chapters a bit
thank you
and good luck to you
i just have to go do a lot of reaserch in to something for the next chapter but i at least know what is going to happen in that chapter

(i just go a brain wave that might carry me to the end of the book so go reasurch now)

[Zuriel]

Pardon me for saying it like this but that is some story...how long is your novel? 


I should talk my first novel came in at 320,000 words.

Wow...that's quite a novel!  My humble little story will not nearly be as long as yours.  I went back and actually checked, and right now mine is around 96,000 words...because I combined parts one and two (dividing it wasn't really necessary - like I said, first story, had a lot to learn).  I've not worked on it for a while, having trouble with the ending, so I've left it alone.  Grrr...  One of my biggest problems is editing and more editing, which is usually a good thing, but it means I never leave the darn thing alone, once I get started.  I don't know when to stop and leave it be.     I'm trying to work on that.