Done typing book 7
Sep. 10th, 2013 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusAnd the seventh notebook has been completely typed in. And the ninth notebook (double-sized one) is nearly full.
Word count so far: 47,201 typed. Statistically, that's about 62,000 words actually written. Probably at least that many still to go.
And still going. I got kinda stuck on the story for a bit. Knew where I wanted to get to next, but not quite sure how to get there. Spent a couple of days editing, and also playing with Scrivener, which I'm liking more and more as I use it. So now I've got part of the story in hand-written notebooks, part of it in .rtf files in dropbox, which get shared between my desktop computer and the iPad, part of it in OpenOffice documents on the desktop computer, and part of it in scrivener.
Reminds me of an xkcd:
As for unsticking a sticking point, part of the advice James Sutter gave me at PaizoCon was to think small while writing. Don't write a novel. Write a scene. Then write another scene. (Hopefully one that follows logically from the first scene.) So I wrote a scene. It led naturally into another scene. I still don't know how to get where I'm going, but I have a pretty good idea in what general direction to head, and I seem to be making progress.
Also, the editing actually helped. Going back over earlier stuff helped to refresh my memory as to what has already happened, and where I was heading with it, and what's missing (i.e., more scenes to write.)
And, it won't actually remain scattered around for long. Soon, everything will be in scrivener, which can be exported to, and imported from, .rtfs in dropbox that I can read in Textilus on the iPad.
so, anyway, whatever I'm doing, it seems to be working. Future plans: once I've reached the end of the hand-writing parts, it'll all by typing it in. After that, I plan on making an editing pass through the entire thing. I'll consider that my second draft. And that's the one I'll be foisting on my friends and whoever else I can get to read it, soliciting feedback for. The edit after everyone's feedback, and probably some more convention-based workshopping, and whatever, that'll be the third draft and the one I start sending out to agents while starting the whole process over again on a second novel.
We'll see if things go according to that plan any more than my original plan to have the whole thing finished by March of this year.
Word count so far: 47,201 typed. Statistically, that's about 62,000 words actually written. Probably at least that many still to go.
And still going. I got kinda stuck on the story for a bit. Knew where I wanted to get to next, but not quite sure how to get there. Spent a couple of days editing, and also playing with Scrivener, which I'm liking more and more as I use it. So now I've got part of the story in hand-written notebooks, part of it in .rtf files in dropbox, which get shared between my desktop computer and the iPad, part of it in OpenOffice documents on the desktop computer, and part of it in scrivener.
Reminds me of an xkcd:
As for unsticking a sticking point, part of the advice James Sutter gave me at PaizoCon was to think small while writing. Don't write a novel. Write a scene. Then write another scene. (Hopefully one that follows logically from the first scene.) So I wrote a scene. It led naturally into another scene. I still don't know how to get where I'm going, but I have a pretty good idea in what general direction to head, and I seem to be making progress.
Also, the editing actually helped. Going back over earlier stuff helped to refresh my memory as to what has already happened, and where I was heading with it, and what's missing (i.e., more scenes to write.)
And, it won't actually remain scattered around for long. Soon, everything will be in scrivener, which can be exported to, and imported from, .rtfs in dropbox that I can read in Textilus on the iPad.
so, anyway, whatever I'm doing, it seems to be working. Future plans: once I've reached the end of the hand-writing parts, it'll all by typing it in. After that, I plan on making an editing pass through the entire thing. I'll consider that my second draft. And that's the one I'll be foisting on my friends and whoever else I can get to read it, soliciting feedback for. The edit after everyone's feedback, and probably some more convention-based workshopping, and whatever, that'll be the third draft and the one I start sending out to agents while starting the whole process over again on a second novel.
We'll see if things go according to that plan any more than my original plan to have the whole thing finished by March of this year.
