Today’s wordage: 3,400
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 94,200
Total writing time: 56 hours
Editorial remarks: Today was as close as I’ve come to missing goal. I pulled it out in the end, but I spent my entire afternoon and evening doing Dad things with the_child, which take priority until they don’t. One of the subtle tragedies of being a writer is how much you are willing to sacrifice of what was once not subject to compromise. It is like serving a lesser god.
On the plus side, she read me ten pages out of the middle reader her class is working through, and hand-wrote about six pages (double spaced) of a story in her class notebook. So this was time very well spent.
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 3,000
Today’s writing time: 2 hours, 0 minutes
Total wordage: 90,800
Total writing time: 54 hours
WIP:
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[ed note: Drafted but failed to post this yesterday. This is progress from 10/6.]
Today’s wordage: 4,100
Today’s writing time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Total wordage: 87,800
Total writing time: 52 hours
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 3,700
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 83,700
Total writing time: 49 hours, 45 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 3,000
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 80,000
Total writing time: 47 hours, 45 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 4,300
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 77,000
Total writing time: 45 hours, 45 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 4,500
Today’s writing time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Total wordage: 72,700
Total writing time: 43 hours, 45 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 3,800
Today’s writing time: 2 hours, 0 minutes
Total wordage: 68,200
Total writing time: 41 hours, 30 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 2,800
Today’s writing time: 2 hours, 0 minutes
Total wordage: 64,500
Total writing time: 39 hours, 30 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 3,400
Today’s writing time: 2 hours, 0 minutes
Total wordage: 61,700
Total writing time: 37 hours, 30 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 3,500
Today’s writing time: 2 hours, 0 minutes
Total wordage: 58,300
Total writing time: 35 hours, 30 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 4,700
Today’s writing time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
Total wordage: 54,800
Total writing time: 33 hours, 30 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 3,500
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 50,200
Total writing time: 31 hours, 15 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 3,800
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 46,700
Total writing time: 29 hours, 15 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 3,900
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 42,900
Total writing time: 27 hours, 15 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 5,600
Today’s writing time: 3 hours, 15 minutes
Total wordage: 39,000
Total writing time: 25 hours, 15 minutes
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 5,300
Today’s writing time: 3 hours
Total wordage: 33,400
Total writing time: 22 hours
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 2,700
Today’s writing time: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Total wordage: 28,200
Total writing time: 19 hours
WIP:
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Today’s wordage: 3,300
Today’s writing time: 2 hours
Total wordage: 25,500
Total writing time: 16 hours, 30 minutes
Editorial comments: This is going better than I expected so far. I think it’s the ‘book 3′ effect. Much of the work I’d normally be doing early in a novel to establish world building and character elements both in my own mind and for the reader isn’t needed here to the same depth — it already exists. I need to reference them, so as not to confuse newcomers who might not have read Mainspring or Escapement, but I don’t need to unwrap them at length. Likewise the voice. I’m just rocking along with the plot having a good old time.
If I had to guess, I’d say the first draft will land at 200,000 words, plus or minus 25,000. Like Green that will be dreadfully over length to the contract specifications, but, well, so what? I’ll revise, rewrite, cut, chisel things off to short stories, whatever I need to do.
WIP:
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A review of Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon | Audible ] — The reviewer really, really, really didn't like the book. The comments are so negative they are funny. Not my audience, I guess. (Scroll down to the middle of the post.)
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) prof_brotherton on how to write a book review
A camera built to study the beauty of decay — Which mostly makes me want to construct a pinhole camera from the case of an upright piano. Don't think I wouldn't do it. PianoCam, coming to a flatbed truck near you... (Thanks to Jacques B.)
The Aldrin Cycler — Trips to Mars on an energy budget. This was a new one on me.
4/11/08 Time in saddle: 17 minutes Last night's weigh-out: n/a This morning's weigh-in: 274.6 Currently reading: Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon [ Powell's | Amazon ]
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