September 5th - Wednesday check-in
You know it’s a messed up holiday week when even Sven forgets it’s Wednesday! If you missed Sunday’s inspirational post by HelenKay Dimon, it’s not too late to check it out! Also, one of your sponsors is giving a class and giving away one tuition to a lucky writer! Details here! How’re those words coming? Flowing free? Clogging up?
September 5th, 2007 at 11:31 am
i started my entry for the brava novella contest which has 147 words, but other than that a big fat zero for four days running on my main Ms. not too happy at the moment
September 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Tut-tut, Sven. I’ve been waiting since 8:00 this morning to post.
I’m clocking in at 61,823 words, the low end of the Challenge. Wonder how much more I’ll get…
September 5th, 2007 at 11:33 am
I’m first?! What’s happened?
School started but that’s not why I haven’t done anything. Just kind of blah, I hate being bipolar!
I was wondering; how many did we start with and how many are still checking in?
September 5th, 2007 at 11:33 am
guess I wasn’t first, we seem to have tumbled on top of each other!
September 5th, 2007 at 11:58 am
heh, looks like we all jumped in, i think we started with around 200 people signed up…but i think only about 60ish people sign in in total.
September 5th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
I’m a bit clogged at the moment, both figuratively and literally. The fungal spore pollen index is through the roof here in the UK and I’m suffering from allergies and can’t think straight…
Excuses, excuses, I know…
September 5th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Jumping in to the new book, but the first chapter has to be just right, so playing with that.
And for all you die-hard sweat partners, BRAVA!
September 5th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I am discovering why they call it revision hell.
September 5th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
As of today I have 74,085 leaving me with about 26k left of my goal. Also I just realized I have to break my last chapter into two chapters.
Ditto Christina:)
September 5th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Guilty. I was one of those that forgot to check in Sunday. And also guilty that the new writing has slowed down. So, I’m hoping to get recharged and back to churning out new words.
September 5th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
47920 words total, 4502 words this week, I’m about done with a resolution of about 2000-3000 words to write. It’s supposed to be 90,000 but at least 70000. Argh! Need to rework plot. Working on editing. Feeling a bit beaten.
September 5th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
I finished my book that I wanted to finish for the challenge, but now I’ve started a novella. Hopefully can get that done by the time the challenge ends, so I’m in again! Woo hoo!
September 5th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
I’m at 9500 words on my short story and will give it one passover to fix some things my reader caught then it’s out the door, my first real submission.
And the novel’s at 53k, which means I’ve broken the low wall of the challenge. I’ve revised my own goal: I want to finish the first draft by the end of the month. Still feasible, and still not a bad amount of time, two months of writing.
September 5th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Word count? I don’t really have a word count to report but I have a brand new outline sitting here in front of me. I’ve been blocked for . . . two weeks now and last night I started working on a new outline. I’m only outlining to the first turning point, which I’ve done pretty much. So, once my afternoon read around the internet is finished I’ll dig in a write. I was really hoping to have pages to report, but I too forgot it was Wednesday.
September 5th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
My Sven total is 61,778, and I’ve revised 70/126 pages of my novella that’s due by 9/16. I’m splitting my schedule now for new words in the morning at 5:00 a.m., then revisions after the monsters go to bed around 9:00 p.m. Not much sleep but oh well.
September 5th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Things around here continue to be just bad. I have nothing to report.
September 5th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Hi!
I’ve got a marathon starting tomorrow that I hope will pull me out of my non-writing slump. I’ve typed up another scene, though, at least…
September 5th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Typed in about 9 pages and handwrote 2 pages. Not too bad. I hope to get more in this week.
September 5th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Hit a lull. A whole bunch of regular non-writing commitments getting in the way of writing. Hopefully things will settle by the weekend and I can get some writing done Sat & Sun.
September 5th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
two and a half k or so since Sun. Finding it hard slog today for some reason, and I’m in the final stages of this novella and so want to get it finished, stupid low attention span
September 5th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
I’ve had a really bad few days and I’ve only been able to actually get 100 words written. My main problem at the moment I think is that I’m not sure which project I want to do next so I’ve taken a couple of days of to brainstorm and recover from having over visitors (I stress out very easily and this visit was no exception)
Still at the moment I’m on 26942 words. Which I am actually very happy about and have now got tonnes of piece of work out into submission. Right back to writing I think.
September 5th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
47,350 / 60,000 words
(78.3%)
I’m doing okay. Tired, but okay. I guess you could say I’m in the last quarter of the football game! LOL! I’ve completed two chapters since Sunday, which was really hard work. Today I have spent the whole day down at Mother’s, so I will be writing late. I only did 3 pages yesterday, so I’ve got to stay here till I do 8 pages tonight. Got chocolate. Am ready.
Hope everyone is well and busy.
September 5th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
6k since Sunday!! Sitting at 56 out of 65k!!! Woohoo.
September 5th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
I’m on vacation this week, so I’ve actually been able to get some writing done! Since Sunday I’ve written 10, 000 words. I’ve finished one novel, a novella, and I’m working on finishing up my Brava contest entry. Good times.
September 5th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Not doing so hot. About 500 words. Better news Sunday.
September 5th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Like Wendy, allergies have hit me this week, too. Working through it. 19,410 challenge total.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
I missed Sunday’s check in because I was out of town…no computer
I got a little done this week, but the holiday really threw me off my schedule.
3,393 since last check in
Total for challenge to date - 37,125
September 5th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
1) Book Title - Naiche (Working title, 1st draft)
2) Hero Name / Occupation - Naiche / Demon Killer
3) Heroine Name / Occupation - Tia / Database Specialist / Agent
4) Setting - Contemporary
5) Length - 80,000
Current count: 37,545
Urgh.
I retyped a load to keep the story flowing and found I had to cull a load of rubbish. So even though I progressed, it isn’t visible.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
I only wrote 674 words since Sunday, but I celebrated with family on Labor Day so no writing that day. I had to fix picnic food to eat. We went swimming and had a nice time. I had some stuff I had to do for promo for my other books but hoping to get a few thousand done by Sunday.
Total count: 46,000
September 5th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Since Sunday I wrote 4997 words, bringing my total for the challenge up to 65,038 words. Lisia’s Journey is up to 31495 and Primal Encounter is at 33543. It’s been a good week.
Good luck to everyone!
September 5th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
19,300 . This is a baby step forward from last check in, and if I churn out 4400 words a day, I can still make the deadline. Maybe. I’m going back to the get up early and type method. Goodnight!
September 5th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
One page in the last three days for the Challenge novel. It sucks!
On the other hand when it comes to edits, I’ve added nearly thirty pages because I needed to flesh characters some with additional back history…
September 5th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Up to 108,407 words, total, for the challenge — 5,141 words since the Sunday check in. Still pushing forward and definitely in the home stretch!
September 6th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Doing much better than before…
Identified about 10 more items to fix/add, etc. and made some changes.
I’m sure I’m going to finish the 2nd draft before the challenge’s over.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Have added about 5,000 words to the suspense over the past three days. Also made notes on revisions for the rest of the book I just sent off the proposal for.
September 6th, 2007 at 2:38 am
The spreadsheet tells me I’ve written 2,734 words since Sunday, for a challenge total of 73, 197 words. Since the contest started, I’ve finished one 28K word story (and started extensive revisions) written a short story, and started two new stories bringing me to a total of 5 concurrent WIP’s. Man, I need to focus.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Haven’t written a thing. Too much else going on. Sigh. Hopefully I’ll get something this weekend…
September 7th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
I’ve got about 65 k. My goal was 60 k, so… *grins* I’m miles behind with my homework though. Eeks.