I haven’t done a Sunday update in a while. Last time I checked in here with my stats, Kai’s book stood at 69, 616 words. Now it’s at 76, 482 words. Progress!
How about you?
sunday update
February 13, 2011 4 Comments
Kai’s book (total): 69,616 words
Kai’s book (new): 1,494 words
I’m taking a break from writing Kai’s book to work on other things. I wrote a 1600-word short story, tweaked the synopsis of Quartz, and began writing an outline of Kai’s book as a road map for getting to THE END. We’re taking the upcoming week off from school (if the public schools are doing it, so will we!) and my writing plan is a healthy mix of submission-type things and for-fun things. More on this later.
Also, some folks over on the HtTS/HTRYN boards have started a Write a Book With Me blog, where you can post your daily wordcounts, and get support and accountability from other writers. They’re holding a contest with a fun prize to inaugurate the new blog, so check it out.
sunday update
February 6, 2011 Leave a Comment
Kai’s book (total): 68,122 words
Kai’s book (new): 4,250 words
sunday update
January 30, 2011 7 Comments
We’ve been passing a cold around our family this past half-week. It’s my turn now, blech.
However, in spite of it all, I did get words!
Kai’s novel (total): 63,872 words
Kai’s novel (new): 4, 158 words
I also got 700+ words worth of notes on a story idea (not Secret Project, but another project—Secret Project 2?) when a character popped into my head and started talking. When Right Brain dictates, I transcribe. Simple as that.
I took yet another stab at writing a synopsis of Quartz. This time I went hunting for some how-to tips, and came upon this post by Diana Peterfreund which led me to these workshops by Kathy Carmichael, and the result is that I’m much happier with my current draft. It still needs a lot of work–which I was going to do tonight–but *sigh* I might just stay in bed and nurse my cold and save my energy for school tomorrow.
How’s your writing coming along?
sunday update
January 23, 2011 4 Comments
Has it really been two weeks since my last update? Yow. January’s gotten away from me, obviously.
Progress on the writing front has been decent. No spectacular wordcounts, but I’m exceeding my 550-word daily goal (except for on Saturdays) by at least a couple hundred words. The writing is very slow since I’m groping about in the dark, thinking only a scene at a time, working with two new characters and an explosion of information (some of it contradictory 
) about the world’s magic, technology and creatures.
Kai (total): 59, 714 words
Kai (new): 8561 words
How’s your writing coming along?
sunday update
January 9, 2011 Leave a Comment
Kai (total): 51, 153
Kai (new words): 6,320
This week I discovered I need to schedule a day off every week, just for my own sanity. I don’t always have to take one, of course, but it’s nice to have it set aside, especially since fatigue has dogged me all week.
I also added in an unexpected POV, which will be fun to work with. I’m almost halfway there, and I’m almost out of planned scenes. Major brainstorming penciled in for this week, along with coming up with a few more honorifics for my languages and some thought given to religious practices. Hard thinking work.
How about you? Any progress on the writing front?
sunday update
January 2, 2011 5 Comments
Kai (total words): 44,833
Kai (new words): 4,340
I took too many days off this week. Time to get serious! Nose, meet grindstone. You’ll be seeing a lot of each other this year.
WriteTrack
January 2, 2011 6 Comments
David’s NaNo wordcount tracker just got a new name and an update that allows you to set up your own writing challenges. I’m using it this time, with the intention of completing Kai’s book by the end of March. That’s almost 800 words a day! I’d better get busy.
Check out WriteTrack here.
sunday update
December 26, 2010 8 Comments
Kai (total words): 40,493
Kai (new words): 3,557
New Secret Project (total/new words): 7,337
Total words for this week: 10,894
Not bad, especially since my target was 3500 words. We’ll see how my progress changes when we go back to school a week from Monday.
Did you get any writing done?
sunday update
December 19, 2010 6 Comments
Now that I’m out of the thinking/whining/chest-beating stage and back into writing the first draft of Kai’s book, I’m bringing back the Sunday progress update. Some folks over at the HtTS forums (hi, Prue!) took the 500 words a day or bust! personal goal as a call to arms, and now I have many comrades on this march. I don’t know what my initial wordcount on Kai’s book was, but I’ve been hitting more than 500 words a day and the total stands at 36, 936.
I don’t know if I’ll get another 3500 words by next Sunday (Christmas, family visiting, etc), but I’ll try.
How’s your writing?
