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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
November Word Count
Thursday, December 1st, 2011 06:09 pmI bogged down a bit in the middle of this month, for various reasons including a con and a (hopefully temporary) lack of plot. Which resulted in me coming up to the end of the month rather shorter of words than I would have liked. (The purpose of deadlines is not to leave everything until the day before them, despite what my college career might have implied.) Thus, I half-killed myself last night to get another 900 words, plus a few extra in case I'd mis-added. It would suck, after all, to fall just short.
the new novel = 3389
revision on the previous novel = 317
assorted old-mission stories (& one new mission) = 1894
Total new words in November = 5600
Fortunately, my writing is better than my math skills!
I think it was the revisions that I forgot to count when doing my oh-crap-how-many-more-do-I-need totals. Regardless, generously over quota, so woot! And double woot for cranking out something like 1300 words last night, despite a lousy mood, the siren call of sleep, and a purring cat curled up on me where the laptop needed to be. I might even be well on the way to a salable stand-alone story in the same universe as the novels; we'll see.
I don't generally count fanfic toward word-count quota; that's for potentially professional work only. But it's worth noting that I also turned out a 1671-word Doctor Who story (in two days!), especially because it was based on a prompt that the housemate helpfully gave me to get me out of a funk. I think it may need a rather strict beta-reading before it sees posting -- I went a little adverb- and simile-happy, even by my standards -- but by ghod it got from beginning to end with all the bits in between.
I am officially giving myself a break for December. It is the month of the Holiday of Financial Obligation, which always puts me in a bad mood. Also, I need to do some serious plot wrangling on the new novel, which is vital writing work that isn't captured by word count. Don't want to let my productivity muscles atrophy, however. So, for this month the goal is only 2000 words. We'll crank it back up in January.
the new novel = 3389
revision on the previous novel = 317
assorted old-mission stories (& one new mission) = 1894
Total new words in November = 5600
Fortunately, my writing is better than my math skills!
I think it was the revisions that I forgot to count when doing my oh-crap-how-many-more-do-I-need totals. Regardless, generously over quota, so woot! And double woot for cranking out something like 1300 words last night, despite a lousy mood, the siren call of sleep, and a purring cat curled up on me where the laptop needed to be. I might even be well on the way to a salable stand-alone story in the same universe as the novels; we'll see.
I don't generally count fanfic toward word-count quota; that's for potentially professional work only. But it's worth noting that I also turned out a 1671-word Doctor Who story (in two days!), especially because it was based on a prompt that the housemate helpfully gave me to get me out of a funk. I think it may need a rather strict beta-reading before it sees posting -- I went a little adverb- and simile-happy, even by my standards -- but by ghod it got from beginning to end with all the bits in between.
I am officially giving myself a break for December. It is the month of the Holiday of Financial Obligation, which always puts me in a bad mood. Also, I need to do some serious plot wrangling on the new novel, which is vital writing work that isn't captured by word count. Don't want to let my productivity muscles atrophy, however. So, for this month the goal is only 2000 words. We'll crank it back up in January.
