April Word Count
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelI told myself that I needed 203 words last night in order to make quota without counting anything but the novel revisions. And by ghod, I wrote 204. And every one of them hurt.
I actually needed 208. *headdesk*
first novel revisions = 4996
old-mission stories = 294
Total new words in April = 5290
Still, over quota in toto. It's a good thing I'm a writer and not a mathematician. And I did turn a snippet into a scene last night, which is always a nice accomplishment.
I am alternately excited about and exhausted by the mere thought of the revisions. There's some cool building-up-to and groundwork-laying stuff I get to do, now that I've realized it's needed. There's a frisson of anticipation in this that's not dissimilar to being on the audience-side of a story that's building up to an exciting climax, only without the unpleasant worry of not trusting the creators to take the story somewhere I want to go. There's also a damned lot of it to be written, and one scene that's now so chopped up that I've resorted to printing out both the old and new-half-done versions, and will be cutting them up with scissors and moving the bits around on the floor to try to achieve some coherence.
But hey, there's only four chapters to go. Except that it'll probably be five by the time I'm done expanding this one. I don't think any of the others will need major revisions. (There's one small but significant addition to the penultimate chapter, but I've already written it, so it'll just be a matter of fitting it in and sanding down the edges.) I think. But we'll see when I get there.
I actually needed 208. *headdesk*
first novel revisions = 4996
old-mission stories = 294
Total new words in April = 5290
Still, over quota in toto. It's a good thing I'm a writer and not a mathematician. And I did turn a snippet into a scene last night, which is always a nice accomplishment.
I am alternately excited about and exhausted by the mere thought of the revisions. There's some cool building-up-to and groundwork-laying stuff I get to do, now that I've realized it's needed. There's a frisson of anticipation in this that's not dissimilar to being on the audience-side of a story that's building up to an exciting climax, only without the unpleasant worry of not trusting the creators to take the story somewhere I want to go. There's also a damned lot of it to be written, and one scene that's now so chopped up that I've resorted to printing out both the old and new-half-done versions, and will be cutting them up with scissors and moving the bits around on the floor to try to achieve some coherence.
But hey, there's only four chapters to go. Except that it'll probably be five by the time I'm done expanding this one. I don't think any of the others will need major revisions. (There's one small but significant addition to the penultimate chapter, but I've already written it, so it'll just be a matter of fitting it in and sanding down the edges.) I think. But we'll see when I get there.
