Well, it’s not going to last long, but I admit fully that it’s fun to see my word count raise up past both Brigid and Lisa’s. Nick the Wonderboy’s word count is clearly out of my range … but what the heck. Had to post now while I could say I’m in second. [grin] # […]
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Novel Dare – Day 10
Interim Post (11:14 AM) — My real progress today is better than the 1,000 words I get to claim. What this means is that at present the sum total of my body of work is just over 1,00 words more than it was, but in reality I stripped away probably 1,000 words, and added back […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 9
Interim Post — Managed nearly 3200 words so far. The main dude senses things around him might be deeper than what he was originally thinking. Today represents his first full attempt to wrest away some control of his environment. Will it work? Maybe. Maybe not. All I can say for sure is that things are […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 8 Wherein The Sledding Goes Easier
Interim post – 12:47 — Just returning for a brief stint after lunch and before working out. This morning went quite well, notching just under 2200 words. This included time spent doing some re-arranging, which is necessary now that I actually think I know what the hell I’m writing. I have more of that to […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 7
Interim Post – I admit fully that I’m having a hard time concentrating on the book today, what with all the election stuff and whatnot. But I just laid down about 500 of the most interesting words. I think the world just up and spoke to me. Not sure where they came from, but there’s […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 6
Interesting day, this election day. It’s fair to say that voting cost me probably 1,200 words–though it trough I probably would have used that hour and a half wait to cut the grass. But I got 2,600 words this morning, and then I got back to it over the past hour and powered down another […]
Read More ...Dare to Be Bad – Day 5: Update, eh?
My 1,800 words or so grew this evening, edging to just over 3,000 for the day mostly on the power of adding character background on the most entrepreneurial of the main characters. I’m happy with this, as I want to get at least 3K a day while I’m off this week. Things are coming together, […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 5
Nearly 1800 words this morning, despite a couple interruptions. Such is life, eh? But this runs my total up to just over 5K, which doesn’t suck. I’ve gotten some good progress in defining the base conceit of the world in place, and set up the intersection of two of the main characters. So that’s all […]
Read More ...The 51% Club
Lisa and I are both off for the day. She’s taken advantage of it to get her work out in this morning, and I’m downstairs toiling away at this novel that always seems to be just on the edge of breaking to my will when the phone rings … “Hello,” I say as I answer. […]
Read More ...ND – Day 4.5
Added another 750 words tonight, fleshing out a bit more on the third character and his relationship with his coach–which is really a conduit to his relationship to the world, I guess. More to come there. The character is a runner, which I’m finding interesting to think about. I’ve come to a firm conclusion about […]
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