Write On Redux - Day Ten

Another good day yesterday:



Stats for Day Ten:

Day Ten Word Count: 5,131
Day Ten Page Count: 20
Overall Word Count: 30,216
Overall Page Count: 112

Fun scene coming up next!

Write On Redux - Day Nine

Now, this is more like it:



Yes indeedy. That means that the stats for today are:

Day Nine Word Count: 7,005
Day Nine Page Count: 26
Overall Word Count: 25,085
Overall Page Count: 92

Today also brought me to the first major turning point for my heroine, and the first up close and personal scene with the hero.

Such, such fun!

Write On Redux - Days Six, Seven and Eight

Let's just say that it's a good job Michelle gave us that extra week.

Day Nine going better, though.

Write On Redux - Days Four and Five

Sucked.

Variety of reasons, but since this is a no excuses kind of deal, I won't go into them.

Anyway, as Michelle has graciously granted us an extra week, I'm just writing the days off and continuing from here. Although, I'm off to Cambridge in a second to do some shopping, so I'll have to write hard this evening.

Tomorrow is entirely dedicated to writing, and other writing related activities.

Latest numbers:



That's 66 pages, for anyone who's counting.

Write On Redux - Day Three

Late posting again, but still.

Excellent progress on day three - 23 pages / 5705 words

Day four going less well...

Write On Redux - Day Two

I forgot to post this last night - far too tired. It was harder going on Day 2 than Day 1, and I think the page count only came out at 17, but that was a hair over 5000 words, so I'm not going to complain too much.

Went back to sleep after the alarm for the first time in ages this morning. It's now almost seven am, and I'm just getting stuck into Day Three.

This is tough.

Write On Redux - Day One

Not a bad start. It worked out at just under 20 full pages, but the words are there. And the story... oh, the story is flowing like a beautiful thing. It makes me very happy.

Sadly, I have used all my words for the day. See you tomorrow.

Black Cat Hollow

And it’s finished. Ugh.

6,000 words yesterday brought me to the, really quite gruesome, end. I was actually surprised by how gory it got. I’m going to have to consider, in the rewrite, if this might not be better as a YA story.

Anyway, for now I’m forgetting about it, and working on other things instead. Had a lie in this morning, then got up to tidy up an article I need to send out this evening, then came to work.

Tonight, I’ll finish printing out the Making the News first draft for editing on the long, long train ride to Scotland tomorrow, and the even longer trip back on Monday.

Also on the to do list – outlining for the Write-On Redux challenge, starting a week on Monday. I am surprisingly excited about it, even though it will mean getting up even earlier than normal.

Home stretch

I'm into the penultimate chapter now - just another 8000 or so words to go. My main characters are separated in the forest at night, and one of them is just about to get captured by the bad guys... it's fun stuff to write.

The only problem is that I have a very low threshold for frightening things, and I keep spooking myself silly if I write in the house on my own in the evening!

Anyway, whole thing should be done and dusted, in first draft at least, by the end of the week.

Woohoo!

Half Way House

Last night I hit the half way point of my current novel.

I've been working on this story only since January, when the idea first came to me. It was a direct result of a Christmas present that my husband bought me; the dictionary of superstition. It's fab.

Anyway, I've really stepped up the pace this last week - averaging 2,000 to 3,000 words a day - and I'm steaming ahead.

And I was delighted to discover as I hit the midpoint, that the story just got deeper, more understandable, and that things are going to get very messy, very soon for my main characters. On the other hand, they're both going to get some answers, now that they're asking the right questions.

I like this story. It's not quite like anything else I've written, but it's really flowing. I'm working with a fairly vague outline - just a sentence or two for each chapter, and there's only ten chapters - so I'm still discovering new things as I go. If I can keep the output up at the level I've been working at this week, I can get the whole 40k rough first draft finished by next Friday. Which would be great, as I'm taking the train up to Scotland on Friday and plan to use the six hours of peace and quiet to start write in edits on Making the News.

Chances are, though, that I'll be finishing this off once I get back. Which is fine - as long as its done by March 18th. Then I'll ignore it for a fortnight while I write something else!