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Wow, am I first? Well, I had one slow day since the last check-in, but I’m still rockin’ and rollin’, and my Inner Editor is jumping for joy at all the raw verbiage she’ll get to tear to shreds come September 20! Heh.
No new words since last check in, but I’m editing like a good ‘un now. My current objective is to get the words to *decrease* as I am 2K over budget on my count. Am enjoying the edit, and feeling reasonably okay about the book, and probably working more solid hours in the day than when I’m actually adding words!
So I don’t think Mr Blue and Sven are going to be too cross with me…
600 words since the last check in and I’ve typed up all I wrote long-hand. The short piece is done in first draft form (except for a closing sentance and a title) so now I’m into editing.
Not immensely speedy or prolific but I do have a glow of achievement!
Hello!
Doing OK… wrote 500 words and typed up even more on Monday. Did some research yesterday, uncovering crucial flaws in my developing plot I’ve got to write a lot more today, or failing that, type up the last c.5000 words I have in lognhand - which will bring my overall total to 30K - only 50K more to go, ha ha!
I’ve gotten almost a thousand since Sunday, which I’m PSYCHED about! After not writing for weeks, I hit a stride last night and managed the thousand. I’m really, really hoping to get to the halfway point of this story by the Sunday check-in. Wish me luck!
Which is three chapters more than last Wed. I am feeling good about staying on track, which means I might actually finish in 60 days instead of 70, because I am only doing 60,000 words on the first draft. It’s been a hard week though, too hot, too hard to keep the flowers alive, and so forth. But I hear there are floods in Texas and a bunch of other places. So we all have our weather troubles. However, my yard needs rain.
I have been a bad girl the last few weeks, although did get about 13K done on a story that I was going to sub as a novella, but realized if I tried to fit it in the heat requirements, it wasn’t going to work, so I have decided to make it full length. All the necessary stuff is there, too. I would have been compressing it if I hadn’t decided to make it longer. Soo, bad for a couple weeks, good this past weekend.
Last week was a write off. But kiddo went back to School Monday (if I was the praying type I’d offer up a few hallelujahs, but I’m not, so I’ll offer up a thank you to the gods of happy drugs and my sanity) and I’ve racked up 3.5k, and the day’s not over yet. I’m hoping for another good 1k on top of that now that I’ve figure out what happening next LOL!
Since the last check in I’ve written 2,768 words. Making the total added words 52,482 and my total word count 65,060. Fingers crossed by the end of the week I’ll be writing THE END and start layering.
Wasn’t able to check in on Sunday as I was in remote parts of Ireland sans internet connection. However, much to my kids and husbands disgust I brought my laptop and wrote every day. Some for my personal blog and some on my novel, so since last check in I’ve written 2420 words. Now that I’m not writing by computer light, sitting in a tent in the middle of Ireland, I’m hoping I’ll be a bit more productive.
Hi all! WINGS OF DESIRE has broke 50K. I’m at 52,800 words. I should have no problem getting to 55K by the end of the week. I ended up pushing the word count up to 85K for now. It’s too much story for 75K. It may end up going higher though. I’m afraid it may be too long for an erotic romance though. I fear it may be 100K easily. But that’s all good. IS there a market for 100K erotic romance?
I’ve put in about 100 words so far today. I’ll plug into the music and put some serious word down later. Right now I’m going through my manuscript and filling in spaces, broadening scenes, hoping to get back into character. I stepped away for several reasons, none good, and now I have to remind myself who these people are becoming.
Well i reached my goal of 30k! yay. I’m on 30937 to be precise. but i need a big kick up the a*s to work harder. i need to do at least 1000 words per day to get my total in time, and i’m just not managing it. im starting to really dislike my book too.
So feel free to come comment on my LJ, i need all the encouragement i can get.
Feeling pretty good with the change in books I made a few weeks ago. Now this one is up to 7200+ words and flowing well. It’s GREAT to be able to hae the words flowing so freely.
Ok nothing since Sunday. I’ve been doing some Beta reading. I’m getting back into writing tonight and hopefully I want to do over 6k by Sunday check in.
Just under 1,000 since Sunday. 982 to be exact. Figured out some changes that need to be made, so, hopefully, that will help speed the flow of things. 16,791 total words.
Just over 2700 words since Sunday which I’m happy about, I’m currently working on various pieces including some sudden fiction (very short pieces less then 500 words) which I’ve been really enjoying.
Total so far: 21092 words which I am just so pleased with!
I’ve done almost nothing this week. I’m away on a business trip. So far I’ve only edited one chapter and added about 1000 words. But it’s better than nothing.
I’ve written sixteen pages since Sunday. As I haven’t written much this month, I’m thrilled that I’m actually writing again. I’ve decided to stop worrying so much about self-imposed deadlines. Write now, I’m writing for fun and for practice, not necessarily for publication.
I’m still learning, and right now, all I need to do is love what I’m writing. I’d been pulling teeth with the manuscript I was working on (I’m fifty pages from the end, but my beginning is so horribly flawed that I’ve created a plot hole I can’t write my way out of). It was such a mess that I’d stopped caring and couldn’t write even a few sentences. I tried, just for fun, starting something new today, and wrote more in two hours than I’ve written in the past two weeks.
I think I lost count of how many words since Sunday. But I have completed a book, I wrote the final words last night. Now it is time to put my h/h away for a few weeks and then regroup.
I am currently plotting the next piece, well I am hoping to. I need to push forward. I have like 40k left with Sven and I plan on trucking right along.
I wrote 3839 words since the last check in bringing the total to 47807. 1293 on Lisia’s Journey and 2546 on Primal Encounter. I’m still working on today’s writing. I’m happy with what I’ve gotten done, but I’m more happy about the way the ideas and characters are falling into place.
Lisia’s Journey looks like it’s going to go for more than the 30k I planned. I’m at 21425 and not near the end.
Revisions for proposal almost done! Clearly, I won’t have the book I intended done by the end of this challenge, but I will have a completed project that’s in front of an editor and that ain’t bad.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:38 am
Wow, am I first? Well, I had one slow day since the last check-in, but I’m still rockin’ and rollin’, and my Inner Editor is jumping for joy at all the raw verbiage she’ll get to tear to shreds come September 20! Heh.
Total for Sweat Challenge: 87,210 words
Words written since Sunday’s check-in: 6,705
Average words-per-day since July 8: 1,896
WOO HOO!!!!
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:27 am
No new words since last check in, but I’m editing like a good ‘un now. My current objective is to get the words to *decrease* as I am 2K over budget on my count. Am enjoying the edit, and feeling reasonably okay about the book, and probably working more solid hours in the day than when I’m actually adding words!
So I don’t think Mr Blue and Sven are going to be too cross with me…
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:18 am
Nothing done.
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:33 am
600 words since the last check in and I’ve typed up all I wrote long-hand. The short piece is done in first draft form (except for a closing sentance and a title) so now I’m into editing.
Not immensely speedy or prolific but I do have a glow of achievement!
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:32 am
61K on The Missing up from 56k on Sunday
42K on Beautiful Girl up from 38k on Sunday
8K on Hunter’s Fall up from 4k last week
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:41 am
31 pages since Sunday. Rockin on towards finishing up this book!
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:13 am
Hello!
Doing OK… wrote 500 words and typed up even more on Monday. Did some research yesterday, uncovering crucial flaws in my developing plot I’ve got to write a lot more today, or failing that, type up the last c.5000 words I have in lognhand - which will bring my overall total to 30K - only 50K more to go, ha ha!
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:17 am
Still grinding away at 500-1000 words per day. My Sven total is up to just over 39K and I’m in the final sections of the novella.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:54 am
Since last check-in, 380 words added during revisions. 329 pages edited total for the challege.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:58 am
Over 1,000 words this week, but now I am back tracking a little. (Which may not be a good thing, but I need to work onthe world building.)
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:16 am
Since Sunday my progress is 6684 words. I’m pleased. Especially considering some of the distractions, lol.
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:41 am
48300 on the novel w/o words for today, total for challenge, 55000.
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:10 am
I’ve gotten almost a thousand since Sunday, which I’m PSYCHED about! After not writing for weeks, I hit a stride last night and managed the thousand. I’m really, really hoping to get to the halfway point of this story by the Sunday check-in. Wish me luck!
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:30 am
Finished the last 5,000 words of one novella, and have 2000 words on a Christmas story.
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:52 am
5,000 words in the last 3 days. But the big news… Finished the Brava Contest Novella and submitted my entry!! Now, on to the next book!
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:02 am
Wheee I am so dang slack lately. Things are getting on top of me and it’s just downright depressing.
I got exactly -nothing- done.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:15 am
38,500 / 60,000
(63.3%)
Which is three chapters more than last Wed. I am feeling good about staying on track, which means I might actually finish in 60 days instead of 70, because I am only doing 60,000 words on the first draft. It’s been a hard week though, too hot, too hard to keep the flowers alive, and so forth. But I hear there are floods in Texas and a bunch of other places. So we all have our weather troubles. However, my yard needs rain.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:39 am
Without today’s words, which are so far at a smokin’ number of 100 words, I’ve achieved a teeny bit over 47k for the challenge. Not awesome, not bad.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:43 am
I have been a bad girl the last few weeks, although did get about 13K done on a story that I was going to sub as a novella, but realized if I tried to fit it in the heat requirements, it wasn’t going to work, so I have decided to make it full length. All the necessary stuff is there, too. I would have been compressing it if I hadn’t decided to make it longer. Soo, bad for a couple weeks, good this past weekend.
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Last week was a write off. But kiddo went back to School Monday (if I was the praying type I’d offer up a few hallelujahs, but I’m not, so I’ll offer up a thank you to the gods of happy drugs and my sanity) and I’ve racked up 3.5k, and the day’s not over yet. I’m hoping for another good 1k on top of that now that I’ve figure out what happening next LOL!
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Since the last check in I’ve written 2,768 words. Making the total added words 52,482 and my total word count 65,060. Fingers crossed by the end of the week I’ll be writing THE END and start layering.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Wasn’t able to check in on Sunday as I was in remote parts of Ireland sans internet connection. However, much to my kids and husbands disgust I brought my laptop and wrote every day. Some for my personal blog and some on my novel, so since last check in I’ve written 2420 words. Now that I’m not writing by computer light, sitting in a tent in the middle of Ireland, I’m hoping I’ll be a bit more productive.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:57 pm
3,150 words since Sunday. Not great, but better than I have done in lately.
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Hi all! WINGS OF DESIRE has broke 50K. I’m at 52,800 words. I should have no problem getting to 55K by the end of the week. I ended up pushing the word count up to 85K for now. It’s too much story for 75K. It may end up going higher though. I’m afraid it may be too long for an erotic romance though. I fear it may be 100K easily. But that’s all good. IS there a market for 100K erotic romance?
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
I’ve put in about 100 words so far today. I’ll plug into the music and put some serious word down later. Right now I’m going through my manuscript and filling in spaces, broadening scenes, hoping to get back into character. I stepped away for several reasons, none good, and now I have to remind myself who these people are becoming.
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Well i reached my goal of 30k! yay. I’m on 30937 to be precise. but i need a big kick up the a*s to work harder. i need to do at least 1000 words per day to get my total in time, and i’m just not managing it. im starting to really dislike my book too.
So feel free to come comment on my LJ, i need all the encouragement i can get.
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Feeling pretty good with the change in books I made a few weeks ago. Now this one is up to 7200+ words and flowing well. It’s GREAT to be able to hae the words flowing so freely.
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Ok nothing since Sunday. I’ve been doing some Beta reading. I’m getting back into writing tonight and hopefully I want to do over 6k by Sunday check in.
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Just under 1,000 since Sunday. 982 to be exact. Figured out some changes that need to be made, so, hopefully, that will help speed the flow of things. 16,791 total words.
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Just over 2700 words since Sunday which I’m happy about, I’m currently working on various pieces including some sudden fiction (very short pieces less then 500 words) which I’ve been really enjoying.
Total so far: 21092 words which I am just so pleased with!
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:39 pm
I’ve done almost nothing this week. I’m away on a business trip. So far I’ve only edited one chapter and added about 1000 words. But it’s better than nothing.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:10 pm
I’ve written sixteen pages since Sunday. As I haven’t written much this month, I’m thrilled that I’m actually writing again. I’ve decided to stop worrying so much about self-imposed deadlines. Write now, I’m writing for fun and for practice, not necessarily for publication.
I’m still learning, and right now, all I need to do is love what I’m writing. I’d been pulling teeth with the manuscript I was working on (I’m fifty pages from the end, but my beginning is so horribly flawed that I’ve created a plot hole I can’t write my way out of). It was such a mess that I’d stopped caring and couldn’t write even a few sentences. I tried, just for fun, starting something new today, and wrote more in two hours than I’ve written in the past two weeks.
I think it’s time to move on.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:11 pm
since Sunday 3826
total for the Sweat 38922 (goal 36000)
total for the manuscript 75625
Into my Black Moment this week. Not the funnest place ever.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:23 pm
I think I lost count of how many words since Sunday. But I have completed a book, I wrote the final words last night. Now it is time to put my h/h away for a few weeks and then regroup.
I am currently plotting the next piece, well I am hoping to. I need to push forward. I have like 40k left with Sven and I plan on trucking right along.
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:30 pm
WIP total: 60,008
I think that means I’ve added a little over 22K to my story since we started the challenge.
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
I wrote 3839 words since the last check in bringing the total to 47807. 1293 on Lisia’s Journey and 2546 on Primal Encounter. I’m still working on today’s writing. I’m happy with what I’ve gotten done, but I’m more happy about the way the ideas and characters are falling into place.
Lisia’s Journey looks like it’s going to go for more than the 30k I planned. I’m at 21425 and not near the end.
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:01 am
48,053 words…behind, but trying to gain
Not a good week - moved out and into a new place - But I’ll catch up!
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:02 am
no progress on ms or finding word program to reload, sigh
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:57 am
Doing revisions has slowed me down a bit. I’ve done 3,066 since Sunday for a challenge total of 67,370. I’m also working on revisions.
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:58 am
Apparently, I’m also repeating myself. Maybe I should stop trying to write and go to sleep.
August 23rd, 2007 at 7:49 am
Total word count = 9,889
New words written = 0
I got side tracked this week doing some other writing-related tasks {frown}. I hope to get back to recycling electrons this weekend. {smile}
Take care…………..Wayne
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:28 am
A pitiful 595 since Sunday! I am going to slink back into my hole now.
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:48 am
Revisions for proposal almost done! Clearly, I won’t have the book I intended done by the end of this challenge, but I will have a completed project that’s in front of an editor and that ain’t bad.