20,000!!!!

[dragonlady7]

I'm not posting an update, because I'm not at a stopping point, but I just looked down at the little wordcount bar in Word, and noticed that. Sweet!!! I am on fire!!!


That's 40%, yo.

Even after taking almost two days to be upset about politics.

I am a MAMMOTH.

Comments

[spacellama.livejournal.com]

That is so impressive! You are a writing machine!

Even worse, I bet it's all good!

(envyenvyenvy ...;)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Welll....

I'm over twenty-one thousand now and I am happy, but I am well aware that it has problems. There are definite continuity errors here and there. Characters are deciding to like each other without any textual backing. I have a cast of two dozen extras and am inconsistent in using them-- I want them to be present, but don't want to overwhelm the reader (or myself!) with names, with the result that twenty of them never speak. Which is awkward.

The romance is progressing jerkily-- I am trying to do the romance-novel thing and have there be obstacles, but they have to be a) reasonable, and b) something that will keep them apart just long enough for the sex to be really exciting, and c) (really a subset of b) not something that will prove insurmountable.

AH. It's much more fun when I don't think about the problems and just write things.

And oh-- yes, it doesn't fit into any genres. Whee!!!

But, I am a machine. :) If it sucks, no big deal-- I can write more. Right? Sure. ;p

[fileg.livejournal.com]

I am just stunned at the sight of your guage.

I don't thnk I have written that many words of fiction in the entire year and a half I have been writing.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I have been writing for over ten years now, and in the last three or four, with some brief stops here and there, I have been in a state of fairly high production.
One thing I really can do is produce.

I'm trying to work up to becoming a real novelist. Production, I can do. The rest of it... well, there's always work to be done. For example, I've never finished anything. Whoops! So, I'm hoping to change that.

:)