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wordwhacker) wrote2005-11-19 10:37 pm
wordwhacker) wrote2005-11-19 10:37 pm
I have been moving silently in the night.
Long-ish time, no update. I'm getting a little behind - I had a couple of big midterms at the beginning of this week that really threw me off the pace. But I'm making up some good time (got in about 3,500 words just yesterday, and managed at least a few hundred on most days, if nothing else.) And lo, I have broken the half-way mark!
In celebration, I have opened my present to myself - licorice-mint tea and a new teaball, with which I am IN LOVE. But we shall hold off until December to elope, shoddy-but-complete manuscript in hand.
Actually, I'm having a lot of fun just hacking away at different takes on ideas. A few times now I've interrupted a chapter part way through with an author's note, whereupon I ramble about some ideas as to how the chapter might work better, and then I'll just restart it right there. Hey, it's all words - and why not leave myself some clues as to how to reconstruct it once I finally get to re-writing? (I'll admit that I also like writing myself author's notes. "Dear Author: Could the ending sentence of this chapter be ANY MORE LAME?! No, really. I think you deserve the literary equivalent of about a hundred hail-mary's or something, yeesh.")
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In celebration, I have opened my present to myself - licorice-mint tea and a new teaball, with which I am IN LOVE. But we shall hold off until December to elope, shoddy-but-complete manuscript in hand.
Actually, I'm having a lot of fun just hacking away at different takes on ideas. A few times now I've interrupted a chapter part way through with an author's note, whereupon I ramble about some ideas as to how the chapter might work better, and then I'll just restart it right there. Hey, it's all words - and why not leave myself some clues as to how to reconstruct it once I finally get to re-writing? (I'll admit that I also like writing myself author's notes. "Dear Author: Could the ending sentence of this chapter be ANY MORE LAME?! No, really. I think you deserve the literary equivalent of about a hundred hail-mary's or something, yeesh.")
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Earlier I had all my characters recap what had happened the night before. If Stephen King can do it, so can I!
Right now I'm doing the Arabian Nights thing and everyone is telling stories. Hopefully they'll stay only one level deep, but I thing that one of my characters likes to tell tales within tales.
Susan