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magickedteacup:
bomberqueen17:
magickedteacup:
@bomberqueen17 said: I have a novel I’m still working on that I wrote literally a million words on in 2003, so.
bomberqueen, that isn’t a novel that’s ten novels wut
/o/
:)
Oh I wrote 300k, threw it out, wrote a different 300k this time in 1st person with the characters switched up, then rewrote that second 300k from scratch because I was trying to master POV. Then I started over, and ran out of brain. So, ~1 million words. I only counted because Neil Gaiman said you had to write a million words badly before you could write well, and I thought, well– if this hasn’t done it I should give up. And I did, but it didn’t take. So. Here I still am.
Neil Gaiman was being too optimistic. lol sobbity sob
Can I ask what your novel is about? :D
(I want to make a joke about how they’re better be space gays and tasteful poop jokes in it, but I don’t want you to eject me to the moon so)
I’ve got a fair portfolio of original novels. There was one with space gays– actually space pirate lesbians– from 2001, and one with dragons that I started in 1991 and worked on for a decade straight, and I don’t know if there have been tasteful poop jokes but I’ve certainly addressed bodily functions at some point. The one I mentioned above involved pseudo-Romans and a barbarian who was intermittently possessed by a god, and I go back and look at it sometimes. In fact I just did and wow, there’s a lot of smut in it. And uggghhh the most complete draft is back in 1st person, I forgot I did that.
There was also definitely one about Vikings from like, ‘05 or so. And I absolutely attempted to write a historical novel about Puritans in 2004 that I had to abandon when it got way too smutty. And in December I wrote about 50k of a novel that involved a small town and a box of kittens, but I shelved it for the Star Wars thing. I’ll have to get back to it to see if it was any good.
magickedteacup:
bomberqueen17:
magickedteacup:
@bomberqueen17 said: I have a novel I’m still working on that I wrote literally a million words on in 2003, so.
bomberqueen, that isn’t a novel that’s ten novels wut
/o/
:)
Oh I wrote 300k, threw it out, wrote a different 300k this time in 1st person with the characters switched up, then rewrote that second 300k from scratch because I was trying to master POV. Then I started over, and ran out of brain. So, ~1 million words. I only counted because Neil Gaiman said you had to write a million words badly before you could write well, and I thought, well– if this hasn’t done it I should give up. And I did, but it didn’t take. So. Here I still am.
Neil Gaiman was being too optimistic. lol sobbity sob
Can I ask what your novel is about? :D
(I want to make a joke about how they’re better be space gays and tasteful poop jokes in it, but I don’t want you to eject me to the moon so)
I’ve got a fair portfolio of original novels. There was one with space gays– actually space pirate lesbians– from 2001, and one with dragons that I started in 1991 and worked on for a decade straight, and I don’t know if there have been tasteful poop jokes but I’ve certainly addressed bodily functions at some point. The one I mentioned above involved pseudo-Romans and a barbarian who was intermittently possessed by a god, and I go back and look at it sometimes. In fact I just did and wow, there’s a lot of smut in it. And uggghhh the most complete draft is back in 1st person, I forgot I did that.
There was also definitely one about Vikings from like, ‘05 or so. And I absolutely attempted to write a historical novel about Puritans in 2004 that I had to abandon when it got way too smutty. And in December I wrote about 50k of a novel that involved a small town and a box of kittens, but I shelved it for the Star Wars thing. I’ll have to get back to it to see if it was any good.
