Juxtaposed June - 500 Words a Day thread - All Genres Welcome

You're so lucky Ken to have a whole month off. May you get thousands of words.


603 for me today. Broke 41k. That's a good thing.

Dropped a whopping 2414 today. I am now under 140K, yay!

It feels weird.

Awesome July plans, Ken.

Excellent progress, Saoirse!

Woo hoo, liz! Weird but good, right? Weird but good.

0 for me last night. I had to sit and stare.

Ken - When I used to write over my lunch break, I had the same problem. Still, it's awesome you got words.

:hugs Namatu:

Liz - Awesome and weird, yeah. (I once took a 399k book down to 192k. And then to 184k. Now it's about 128k. I write LONG. It felt strange being so short....or at least short to me! LOL).

653 words for me today. Now I need to rearrange some things to accommodate the new direction of the plot.

Only -135 today. Less weird.

I've been known to snipe a few hundred words here and there, Ken. They all add up.

Hah, Saoirse - this one was never 399K, but it was close to 180K at one point. I removed a whole sub-plot. I am still sad about that.

Sitting and staring is sometimes fruitful, Namatu!

Well I was all set to write this morning, but settled in Starbucks I fired up the Netbook and got 'user profile error'.

Gaah!

Could not log in, hence could not write. Most frustrating when there's probably only one chapter left until the end.

I have had this before with my laptop. Seems to be a common error with Windows 7. Have given it to my IT guys at work hoping they can find out how to fix it.

And all this happens on Friday 13th!

I hope the rest of you manage to get words written today...

Hugs, Shara. I hope it gets fixed soon.

Blasted the lid off The Railroad Man again this month. Proofreading the soft back revealed many errors and led me to do some maintenance. Wound up releasing a revised edition of the novel on Kindle and will have the soft back out shortly. Don't know how many words I wrote, but it was a lot! And hopefully, they will be the last I will write for The Railroad Man. It's time to set it free and move on.

Hi, Blackhawk. How many years are we talking about? I've been working on mine for the last 25 years, on and off! And I just finished working on yet another set of revisions today! I hope I'm done with it now.

Oooo, Shara, I hate computers, and I make a living off of them. I hope your problems clear up.

I shaved off another 416 today. There is more I should be hacking, but eventually it's going to mean removing entire plot points.

Go, team!

I hate technology too, sometimes.

The IT guy at work managed to fix the Netbook. He agreed to accept cake as payment. Must remember to take some in for him on Monday!

I tried to make up the lost writing time this Saturday morning. I have acheived 1,113 words and have got to the end of Draft 1!

Yay!! This calls for some dancing bananas!


The full MS now stands at 74,000 words. I am aware there are lots of problems in it, but it's only draft 1. Everything can be fixed in the rewrite.

I'm off to chill that bottle of Champagne we've had since Christmas - seems a good reason to break it out tonight!

I wish everyone many words this weekend, and I shall be back as soon as I've worked out what to do with this MS.

In the meantime, I've got another round of edits to do on one of the two new releases this year, so I better get on with that.

CONGRATS SHARA!

ETA: 551 words for me tonight.

Shaved 44 words off tonight. The next few chapters are going to need some more focused attention...

1,224 words excised. Brain fried.

I have taken a day off of the Day Job tomorrow in hopes of getting to the halfway point on the edits, but I am also taking my dad out for Father's Day, so my goal is possibly a wee bit ambitious. I'm close, though.

Well, I finished my third draft and sent it out. -306 today, which doesn't quite get me under 136K total.

Still going back and forth on titles. Wondering if "The Book Where Stuff Blows Up" would be too plain.

CONGRATS LIZ!!!! That is awesome! I see a new title in your siggie - I like the sound of it.

Been revising my antho story for the most part. And researching getting a second BA degree. I think I've lost my mind.

Saoirse said:

CONGRATS LIZ!!!! That is awesome! I see a new title in your siggie - I like the sound of it.

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Thanks, Saoirse! It was my agent's suggestion, and it's close to some of the ones I was thinking of. It's growing on me.

And renaming my book was all I got done yesterday. Had one of those "remember the rest of your life?" moments when my mom went to the ER last night. Not sure what's up yet - she's home and feeling completely fine now - but one worries.

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Been revising my antho story for the most part. And researching getting a second BA degree. I think I've lost my mind.

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Oh, I did this from 2007-2010. It is, in fact, insanity; but in a lot of ways I had SO much more fun than I did getting the first BA. I didn't sleep much, though. Do it!

Awesome words, Ken! Counting down the days, huh?

Been revising and hemming and hawing about the second BA. Liz, I want to do it desperately, but there are other factors that will come into play and that makes it tough. But man, FRENCH. And Spanish. And and and--geez. I'm insane.

Sigh. I see I haven't posted updates in over two weeks. Revisions continue, a little every day, and I'm nearly halfway through now. Old words are cut, existing words are polished, new words are added. The WIP now stands at 93,400, meaning words will need to be cut in round three (or is it round four?) of revisions. But I'll worry about that then.

135 net new words added this morning.

TGIF, everyone!