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3/29/2009 9:25:34 AM
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Jbarney
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This was suggested on another thread....and I think it could be a really nice way of challenging ourselves to write more.
A little history for me. Last week I finished a clunker that I started a while ago and just needed to finish.
Last night I sat down at a local coffee shop and expanded an idea I'd began months ago. If felt really awesome to be able to jump back into the idea which seemed to have some potential. The title of the story is "That Which Should Not Be". I love where the story is going. So here is where I am at with it....my daily writing level.....
Pre History of Story: 350 words
Saturday March 28: 1200 words (1550 Total for story)
Sunday March 29: 1000 words (2612 Total for story)
Off to a good start. Now the key is finding time during non-weekends. Be back tomorrow.
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3/30/2009 10:49:12 PM
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Jbarney
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Sorry this has not garnered more interest.
For what it is worth....another 1000 words today.
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3/31/2009 10:47:00 AM
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Clint Harris
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1500 words last night. Finished one scene and started another with a psycho killer POV character. It was actually a little disturbing to write that kind of stuff. but in a good way.
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4/1/2009 5:33:00 PM
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alastair_mayer
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Just one. Oh, that's two, er five. No, seven... Ten!
Seriously, I'm in revision mode at the moment, cutting as much as or more than writing. I did do 497 on a piece yesterday, actually about 580 of which I threw away 83.
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4/1/2009 6:51:49 PM
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Jbarney wrote:
Sorry this has not garnered more interest.
For what it is worth....another 1000 words today.
Oh, it's garnered interest; I'm just too embarrassed to put up my count. For what it's worth, I'm just happy I'm stringing sentences together again.
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4/2/2009 7:23:38 AM
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rreugen
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I started on a new story three days ago. I wrote about 1200 words in the first day, 1500 in the second, then another 1500 the third day, when I also realized that the previous 2700 words are pretty irrelevant to the actual story, thus bringing my word count to -1200 words. I'm on the Other Side of Efficiency, between very bright lights and many temptations.
I feel compelled to write another 1200 words, but I'm also a little scared. What drives us to do these things, anyway? Who? Why?
edited by rreugen on 4/2/2009
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4/2/2009 9:43:15 PM
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Jbarney
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Alright! Looks like there have been some words written. Good. I didn't post yesterday, but I got another 1200 words in. Have not written today....time to write.
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4/2/2009 11:11:41 PM
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Jbarney
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There, not only did I get in 1200 hundred words but I finished the story. There are few things that equal the feeling I get when I finish another story. Not sure what my next short story effort will be, but I think its safe to say I've embraced the school of thought which urges volume. All of my short stories need to be edited. That will happen at some point, but just coming up with the first drafts is so much fun.
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4/2/2009 11:45:41 PM
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Bill Moonroe
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I'm doing Script Frenzy, with a freeware program (I hope it's free...) that doesn't appear to have a word count mechanism. I'm having to write to a time goal rather than page or word count. Also been working on stories, but the learning curve with the new program & long time no scripting have eaten into that. Tomorrow's a day off, hopefully I'll get some major writing done and avoid pissing away too much time on cow jokes.
Jbarney, you can increase your word count even more by using "All right" instead of "alright". The key is, never to use one word where four will do.
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4/4/2009 9:36:22 AM
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Jbarney
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Must be in a writing zone.....got up at 5:00 a.m. and started typing away. It only lasted for 25 minutes or so, but felt really good.
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4/6/2009 9:36:40 PM
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Jbarney
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Just got in another thousand words. Tonight's writing was a little more focused than normal, but I am not sure I took the story in the correct direction. I love the idea, and was really happy with the story when I first started a couple of months ago. I got distracted, let it collect a little dust. Now I am working on it, but I really am not sure the direction is right. I know where I want to go with it, just need to make sure I set up the flow of the story and the main character in a nice way.
I was a little more focused than normal with the language because I was thinking of a style difference a friend pointed out to me once. She likes to basically study each sentence she writes and almost always refuses to move on to the next one unless the current group of words is just how she wants them. I have always taken a way different approach. I will just sit down and as the story unfolds in my mind I will type away. I have found it works well for me. When I spend too much time trying to make sure every single group of words is flawless I find my original thoughts tend to stop flowing and I don't have any pace. I don't edit right off, so I guess I won't know which was better for my product until I go back.
It was slower and much more painful.
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4/19/2009 10:44:17 PM
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Jbarney
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I know not many people have grabbed on to this, but oh well.....I have had another successful writing week. This evening I got in about 1500 words and did really well. Finished another story. Tomorrow I will start a new one. Trying to keep the writing going. The only way to improve is to keep doing it.
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4/22/2009 3:19:35 AM
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alastair_mayer
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I added 1806 words to my novel tonight. I wrote more than that but I also deleted a bunch.
I find I can consistently create about ten words a minute. I'd write faster but can't resist going back and making minor corrections and fixing typos as I go. That's making it up as I go along, with no more than a vague mental outline. And it's mostly dialog, with just enough narration to set the scene, so I can get the story out quickly. I'll back and fill where I think it needs it later.
Jbarney wrote:
The only way to improve is to keep doing it.
You're quite right. Well done on keeping it going.
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4/22/2009 4:20:27 AM
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rreugen
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4000 words two days ago (revising_.
500 yesterday (still revising).
Starting again in half an hour.
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4/23/2009 2:59:27 AM
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alastair_mayer
Posts 400
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1544 words tonight. I need to start earlier in the evening 
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4/23/2009 6:59:12 PM
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Jbarney
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1000 words yesterday.....1500 words today.....
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5/12/2009 9:15:57 PM
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Jbarney
Posts 82
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Just wrote another 1000 words....and finished my most recent story. I now have 12 short stories finished and on the shelf waiting for me to go ahead and edit them. I gotta continue the writing effort but now I have enough of a foundation down were I can edit the stories I am done. Actually feel a mix of nerves and satisfaction at reaching this level of production. I'd like to go into the summer on a nice solid stretch of writing so I think I am going to try to get up at 5:00 a.m. before work and write a little more. It won't be easy. With the stories I have done I know about half of them need considerable editing. Could the next step really be actually sending a story in? Man-o-man!!!!
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5/12/2009 9:42:43 PM
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alastair_mayer
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Jbarney wrote:
Just wrote another 1000 words....and finished my most recent story. I now have 12 short stories finished and on the shelf waiting for me to go ahead and edit them. I gotta continue the writing effort but now I have enough of a foundation down were I can edit the stories I am done.
So are you working on a batch model or a pipeline model? In other words, with these 12 drafted, are you going to edit the whole batch before writing new ones, or keep writing new ones to fill the pipeline as you pull them out to edit (and submit!) them? I'm trying to get to that latter point myself.)
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5/17/2009 5:20:45 PM
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Jbarney
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I want to keep as many in the works and on the shelf as possile, so I will edit one or two and keep working on new material. Its important for me to try and keep the new ideas flowing. The editing process is so much different than the actual writing process for me. It is a little scary.
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5/19/2009 2:32:35 AM
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alastair_mayer
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After a long dry spell I wrote about 800 words today and can see where I'm going.
I'm taking a chapter from one of my NaNoWriMos and changing it to a stand-alone short story, which incidentally is giving me more insight into where this particular character is coming from and into the backstory of multiple related stories. I think not knowing that backstory was what was holding me up.
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