I missed the check-in for day 8, so here's a joint one for days 8-9: brainstorming/worldbuilding/outlining kept happening, as well as some short snippets that may or may not make it into the draft once I get to that stage. I think in several days, I'll be putting this project aside for a while to put some distance between it and me, then get back to finalizing some things in the last week before Camp NaNo. But for now, I still have a few interesting things to figure out, and I'm enjoying the process!
Day 9: I uh... spent an hour on writing-related things? I didn't end up printing anything out but skimmed through the section from the beginning to figure out what new bits had been copied over to the main document and what other bits I hadn't gotten to yet. Moved a few things over, the "how do I splice these two bits" question in one area resolved itself more easily than I thought it would, with moving a sentence here and typing up a few other sentences there. Then I realized that page 50 of the section (yes, if I ever finish this novel it's going to be Long, the first section was 53 pages, this is section two, we're barely started, I will probably end up cutting a fuckton at some point) might be a decent stopping place rather than the place about 25 pages later that still needs wrangling with a bonus that I could send it off to the cheerleaders earlier. I might make them vote.
June 9th - 908 words, 5 Doctor Who drabbles and then I broke out an old fic that needed considerable work, expanding some scenes and adding a new one, because while it started off fine, the ending was horribly rushed. I think it's a lot better now but might still benefit from another edit or two.
It is, indeed, practice, and of the sort to which I can definitely relate as I keep adding words to this flash fic and then figuring out what needs to be cut. YAY for words with an only temporary housing. :-)
You are speaking the language of my people when you bewail how shorter things turn into novels, as that is definitely my Modus Operandi to date. Your approach is sound--writing it all down and worrying about the cutting later. Good luck with it all! :-)
YAY for keeping a hand in! Alibi sentences are often the anchor upon which later work is based, by which I mean you're keeping the writing muscles limber until you can use them more strenuously. :-)
Endings are the most difficult part of any story for me, so I appreciate your process here, whereby you return to a nominally finished story and rework the ending and then acknowledge that it probably needs still a bit more work thereafter. I am SO of a mind with you on that!
Hey, an alibi sentence is important! It means you're keeping up the promise of writing every day. I'm sorry work took you so late, and I hope that today is a more restful one for you. :-)
If I didn't do things that way, I'd never meet challenge deadlines *grins* I can post something that's good enough to a challenge, but I want it RIGHT for my journal. I still find typos though, even years after posting.
Endings can be very difficult. I don't like to rush them, but sometimes they're hard to find.
Day 9 made progress on setting things up for an assignment, and keeping ahead on my personal project and also starting on putting together a presentation for a work-related conference. Many words, much wow.
I totally agree - even words destined from the beginning to be cut again are practice, as well as, in my imagining, future compost to nourish my imagination and my storytelling. They might exist only for the shortest time, but once they've been there the next ones growing on top of them will be richer and look better.
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600 words of fake-married: only one bed and midnight self-reckonings.
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But it's practice, innit.
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Then I realized that page 50 of the section (yes, if I ever finish this novel it's going to be Long, the first section was 53 pages, this is section two, we're barely started, I will probably end up cutting a fuckton at some point) might be a decent stopping place rather than the place about 25 pages later that still needs wrangling with a bonus that I could send it off to the cheerleaders earlier. I might make them vote.
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Day 9 - alibi sentence for me.
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Day 9
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And HURRAH for yet more of my FAVORITE tropes! I can hardly wait to read this! What a delight!
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Re: Day 9
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Endings can be very difficult. I don't like to rush them, but sometimes they're hard to find.
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Hope you're both well :D
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