Thud: Above
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leahbobetJuly 6, 2008 Progress Notes:
Above
Words today: 5000.
Words total: 70,500 MS Word, 85,000 SMF.
Reason for stopping: Tonight I was just gunning for as much as humanly possible, and hell, let's see if we can get a draft. But there's at least two scenes in front of my face that need a delicacy that bled out of my fingers three hours ago, and really, I'm not on a deadline. Tomorrow.
Munchies: Pizza, iced Stash blueberry.
Darling du Jour: I stand middle, and that's important too in its way. The man in the middle's kept safe as Safe, guarded by each body that walks the Duty with the whole of their life. The man in the middle's job is to carry the Tale if every man else falls, and by wit or stealth or sacrifice, take the word of their dying home to Safe.
I stand middle, and Ari stands with me.
Words Matthew Won't Admit to Knowing: N/A
Mean Things: Oh, man. Where do I even start?
Research Roundup: N/A.
Books in progress: Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus.
The glamour: Got some dirt for the nice new windowbox and planted it, slush, support mail, some various tidying. My air conditioning appears to be broken, so I put in a work order and hopefully they fix it soon. For my final trick, I will start bread before I go to sleep.
Yup, I was right. That wasn't wrapping by 85,000 words. Oh book, when did you get so long and unattainable?
That was six hours' good hard work, and while I'm not unhappy with it, it will need to be gone over with care on the next draft. I halfway don't care right now. I can feel the downhill momentum on this manuscript, finally, and it's just rushrushpush to the end, to hit that final line.
Very soon I must start making the list of things to fix on Draft the Two.
Oof.
Above
Words today: 5000.
Words total: 70,500 MS Word, 85,000 SMF.
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85,000 / 90,000 (94.4%) |
Reason for stopping: Tonight I was just gunning for as much as humanly possible, and hell, let's see if we can get a draft. But there's at least two scenes in front of my face that need a delicacy that bled out of my fingers three hours ago, and really, I'm not on a deadline. Tomorrow.
Munchies: Pizza, iced Stash blueberry.
Darling du Jour: I stand middle, and that's important too in its way. The man in the middle's kept safe as Safe, guarded by each body that walks the Duty with the whole of their life. The man in the middle's job is to carry the Tale if every man else falls, and by wit or stealth or sacrifice, take the word of their dying home to Safe.
I stand middle, and Ari stands with me.
Words Matthew Won't Admit to Knowing: N/A
Mean Things: Oh, man. Where do I even start?
Research Roundup: N/A.
Books in progress: Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus.
The glamour: Got some dirt for the nice new windowbox and planted it, slush, support mail, some various tidying. My air conditioning appears to be broken, so I put in a work order and hopefully they fix it soon. For my final trick, I will start bread before I go to sleep.
Yup, I was right. That wasn't wrapping by 85,000 words. Oh book, when did you get so long and unattainable?
That was six hours' good hard work, and while I'm not unhappy with it, it will need to be gone over with care on the next draft. I halfway don't care right now. I can feel the downhill momentum on this manuscript, finally, and it's just rushrushpush to the end, to hit that final line.
Very soon I must start making the list of things to fix on Draft the Two.
Oof.
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Madness takes its toll
Date: 2008-07-07 03:37 am (UTC)gf
Not for very much longer -- I've got to keep control
Date: 2008-07-07 03:40 am (UTC)If you really want to be scared, go friend
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Date: 2008-07-07 03:49 am (UTC)I blame draft swell on first person POV. That is probably unfair, but I know my MC just wanted to keep talking. We are having a discussion, she and I, about the length of a YA manuscript so this doesn't continue to happen.
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Date: 2008-07-07 04:02 am (UTC)Well. 90k, still not a bad length.
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Date: 2008-07-08 02:35 am (UTC)