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Claw Update

PETERMBALL Works in Progress , , ,

Claw Draft
Projected Total: 25000
Total Words to Date: 6315
Words Done in Previous 24-hour Period:1,673
Deadline: April 30th

Last night made for an awesome burst of writing – finished chapter three, worked out some more things that were bugging me about the first two chapters*, and promptly took the daylight hours of Sunday off in the name of cleaning, playing a few hours of D&D, and preparing to go back to work tomorrow.

Fortunately the part of me that’s damn happy about doing a minimum of 2000 words a day for the last four days albeit not all on this project) is making noises about how it’d be nice to keep that going.

*to whit: when writing a hard-bitten character, or at least when writing this particular protagonist, having them start off in the dark trying to work out what’s happening is the wrong choice. Having an investigator start with an idea of whats going on, then subverting it in a way that points out that things are actually worse than they thought, is a much better approach and makes for more lively dialogue with far less straight expository monologuing from secondary characters. Interestingly, I think I stumbled over the exact same revelation at about the same point when writing the first draft of Horn…

Claw Update

PETERMBALL Works in Progress , , ,

Claw Draft
Projected Total: 25000
Total Words to Date: 4642
Words Done in Previous 24-hour Period: 879 (Was all prepared to angst about this, then realised it’s nine more words than yesterday)
Deadline: April 30th
Reasons to Squee: Chapter Two is done. Chapter three introduces a character I hadn’t planned for, but is proving to be fun. Made many notes on fixing the awkward bits of Chapter two as well.
Reasons to Wail: You know what? Not much today. All is well in my writing world.
Non-Novella Writing: Wrote about four-thousand words of short-story draftage last night (yet another reason not to angst over today’s wordcount), and finally finished the draft of my post-apocalyptic-dragon-cyberpunk-western story. Given this is one of those ideas that I’ve been throwing around for a year or two now without ever finalising it, I find myself very happy.

Things worth checking out: Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Freelancer’s Guide (In progress and published on-line as it goes along).

Claw Update

PETERMBALL Works in Progress ,

Claw Draft
Projected Total: 25000
Total Words to Date: 3763
Words Done in Prior 24-hour Period: 870 (Ach)
Deadline: April 30th
Reasons to Squee: Today, very few. Chapter two, thus far, is a big ol’ mess of revisions waiting to happen. It is, however, almost done and will likely be over some time tonight.
Reasons to Wail: Apparently I’ve decided to follow a car chase with a bi ol’ lot of exposition in which the primary action is a possessed cat eating a hamburger.
On the Plus Side: I’ve more-or-less finished off all the crits I owe; I got some very nice rejection letters; and I got said stories out again fast.
On the Down Side: I lost my groove when it came to putting in time at the keyboard today, choosing to do things like shopping instead. Must rectify this, and soon.