Anyone seen the Simpsons episode "The Book Job?" I did multiple spit-takes watching that one. Way too close to home on some stuff.
Editing my YA Scifi: Got through only two pages today (six is my daily goal). I got stuck on a scene that feels draggy. I sat there all morning trying to fix this thing. I finally gave up and went to another spot and ended up adding 1300 words. So all in all, not a bad work day.
I've been having a good writing week! Off from work, I managed to do major edits on my MS by focusing only on this project, and ignoring my 2 other WIPs. The word count is 85k and shrinking as I edit. Only 1/3 left, and hoping to get it done in next 10 days!!! Then I'll really need some betas who aren't my friends (LOVE my friends, but they're too shy to give me an honest critique, sigh). The goal would be to start querying by...hm, let's say october. Too ambitious? Probably. The MS is YA Paranormal Romance.
I know a lot of people write too much, then have to trim it down. I have the opposite problem. My SF novel has been sitting around 72-73 K for weeks, and I had set myself a goal of 80K.
Well, the other day I had a revelation, and finally hit 80,500 by covering a few missing subjects. I'm now doing a round of editing, and I should be ready to enter Query Letter Hell some time next week. Woot!
Hey, have fun with that!This will be my second post in the AW Water Cooler.
As a computer programmer who is a bit of a wordsmith, I write a lot of technical documentation and user instructions, and have also written my mother-in-law's memoirs (based on her tape-recorded description of her experiences in a Soviet labor camp after World War 2). But I have always wanted to write science fiction.
Well, I am taking next week off work, and will be dedicating it to starting work on my first novel. It will be a First Contact novel, set here on Earth in the near future. I have a good idea of how it starts, although the end is a bit murky so far.
My goal is 20,000 words for the week. I don't yet know if that is reasonable, or completely nuts. I will report my progress here -- I guess the intent of posting this is to make myself responsible.
Ever get your internet up and running? Sounds like you've moved to the center of Nowhereville.I've been moving for the past month but the place I'm moving to doesn't have internet set up. It's a long story but we have to get satellite, so we have to get a dish installed. But there are complications in that which are too crazy to get into right now.
Anyways, I have to use my neighbors internet to check email, or go into town which isn't necessarily close. It looks like there's only two more weeks of this madness before I can get internet again. It's pretty frustrating.
Because of that it's been pretty tough to keep my writing schedule. My life feels pretty upside down right now. I just want to be done moving.
All those revisions done and rolling along again in the other book. I have some fixing to do though. One of my characters seems to be in two places at the same time. Damn. He's pretty extraordinary, but he does have some human limitations.
Ever get your internet up and running? Sounds like you've moved to the center of Nowhereville.