The chronicles word counter!

[MattyK]

Novel: Mars Divided (working title)
Genre: Sci-fi/humour (still not sure about humour, quips ahoy!)
Word count: 3,081
Chapters: 1 (But the chapter now has a divide thingy)
Status: Still chugging. If I build up any momentum I seem to suddenly stop in my tracks to research something!

That was around August 6th (I think). Now it's:

Novel: Mars Divided (working title)
Genre: Sci-fi/humour (still not sure about humour, quips ahoy!)
Word count: 5,535
Chapters: 2
Status: Lurched*

*As in "to a halt". I'd like to blame this on two factors.

1. I've just come back from a three week holiday in Peru and didn't take my laptop. I also didn't take a notepad or pen as I planned to but honestly, I don't think I would have used them if I had.

2. I have been ill with mind-bending gut rot since I got back. I'm on more pills than Keith Richards in the sixties (and I'm quite possibly seeing more colours, too).

"Both fine reasons!" I hear you say and indeed they are...were it not for the fact that I reached my "lurched" status a week or two before I actually left on holiday. I tell you this because I don't want you to let me get away with my laziness. Well, not just laziness. I think I might have hit "the wall" or have writers block (those two the same thing?).

I kind of know what I want to happen next but I don't think I'm happy with the last few paragraphs I've written. I don't want to delete them as I've read many a forumite stating that you don't delete anything. I don't know how good I would be at going back and writing them again. How far do I go back? I know it's MY story but I don't think I can identify the exact point I should start from.

Maybe I should just keep ploughing ahead. Maybe I'll start to like what I'm writing again and then I can come back a bit later and "fix" the bit I'm currently unhappy with.

OR (This is the "OR" I don't like/might need the most help with).

I've tried writing things on my own before. None of it was particularly good because I was much younger and much more stupider (shut up at my grammar, isn't it?!). My problem when writing on my own is that I always...ALWAYS get to this point where I just stop writing. Lost interest. Realise the idea is no good. Well, I don't think it's a bad idea...maybe it is the lazy thing!

Anyone who has had a similar problem on here (and I bet there's a few of you) and has beaten it (I hope there's a few of you) I would appreciate any advice you can offer. Who knows, I'm about to take a look at my story again for the first time in about five weeks (gah, five weeks? PUNISH me!) so maybe by the time you're finished laughing at my patheticness (Look it up, I tell ya!) I'll be all over it...I hope!

P.S Hmm...that started out as a simple "word count" reply. Sorry!

P.P.S Also, sorry for my (abundant) use of parentheses!

P.P.P.S Good lord, I've written more words in this post than I'd normally turn out in one day on my story. Gah!

 

[Jon_Sauve123]

Alright, I switched projects again! I was having trouble finding my muse; everything I tried to write just never took off after my last novel. But this once clicked. I'm going to finish it.

Unfinished
Novel: Blood and Boojije ("boojije" is basically a certain type of beer in my world)
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 31,043
Status: It's going quite well, and though we're moving currently I still find the time to put in a good 2,500 words each day. It's one of my more lighthearted books, though it deals with generally dark subjects... It's sort a mystery/horror/thriller.

 

[cornelius]

Novel: The Chronicles ( working title)
Genre: Fantasy (Epic)
Word Count: 180,007
Status: Rewrite under the title "Chronicles Reborn", they still continue...

 

[chopper]

ok, now i've finished all of my current short stories. the cupboard is empty.
back to the epics....

Malessar's Curse
First half of a planned 2-part tragic fantasy
@ 61000 words
been a bit barren recently, waiting for it to enthuse me once more.

The Empire Dance
Resurrected military-style SF, donkeys years old
@3500 words (plus 7000 from an unspecified part of the plot)
just found the old files on backup discs; having a bit of fun with it and trying a new, very episodic approach.

Kinsmeet: Reever's Mark
epic fantasy-stodge
20000ish words
hasn't moved a muscle in 18 months or so.

well, good news abounds!

Empire Dance is on 14k (plus the other 7k), which is the furthest i've ever managed to get with it.

Malessar's Curse, meanwhile, has hit the dizzy heights of 66.5k and i'm close to stitching together seven full chapters, along with the Prologue! if i don't watch it though it might well have to target itself at 200k.....that's a long way off.....

 

[Culhwch]

Epic fantasy-stodge, Chop? Trailblazing a new genre there?

 

[chopper]

following in RJ's footsteps, more like

i started writing it with no clear end in sight. never a good idea.

 

[Culhwch]

Wait, that's how I start everything...

I actually have some small justification for being in this thread today - approximately five hundred words yesterday while at work. Sure it's something that I haven't worked on for ages, but it really flowed in a way it hasn't for me for an age. Will see if I can fire off a little more today.

 

[Culhwch]

Hmm, yeah, that one fell by the wayside...

Project: Untitled
Genre: Elf-punk? High fantasy? Not too sure just yet
Wordcount: 4559 (including some cuts at the end of the doc, so probably around 4250 in reality)
Status: Alive! For now...

...but this one has seen a bit of movement!

Project: An Empire in Twilight (working title)
Genre: Probably straight-up high fantasy, at this point
Wordcount: 6163
Status: Look, I'm giving it my best...

 

[Culhwch]

Project: An Empire in Twilight (working title)
Genre: Probably straight-up high fantasy, at this point
Wordcount: 6163
Status: Look, I'm giving it my best...

I seem to have this thread to myself at the moment...

Project: An Empire in Twilight (working title)
Genre: Fantasy
Wordcount: 7528
Next Goal: 10000 by November 1st...

 

[chopper]

the only thing moving right now is the Empire Dance project.

up to 7000 (+ other 7k elsewhere)

Empire Dance (part 1)
episodic SF - lots of empires, no dancing
27k+
proceeding slowly

Malessar's Curse
ye olde fantasy
71k+
starting to get to the real meaty bits now....

Reever's Mark
crusty fantasy
20k-ish
nope, nothing happening.

 

[Culhwch]

Crusty fantasy? Intriguing...

 

[crystal haven]

This is my latest work.

Novel: Anna (Working title)

Genre: Fantasy Romance (unless they kill each other at the end) Only joking!

Word Count: 8,000 still a long way to go.

Finished novels: 112,600 and 113,000 approx.

All the same world, but Anna has different characters completely.

 

[RossNemesis]

Completed
Novel Sunswitch Dysnomia
Genre Science Fiction/Space Opera
Word Count 140,684
Status first draft polishing up completed. pretty much as ready as I think for the next step. critiques!

 

[ctg]

CotM Versio 5
Post-apocalyptic/Time-travel/Futuristic Cyberpunk-ish Fantasy
128 266 WORDs

I'm one chapter away from wrapping this version. I left the end hanging semi-open as I suggested in the other thread. Although I know who's playing in the last chapter, I'm not sure what exactly to say. I'm itching to wrap it today, but somewhere back in my mind, I know I should leave it for tomorrow.

Note that even though this is fifth version, it is also second rewrite. I followed what Boneman and Chopper commented when they read two and half parts of my four part novel. I removed as much info-dumping as I could with the second rewrite and when I'm going to do the third one, I would like to follow other people's thoughts as well.

So if there's anyone interested to read, then let me know (preferably in PM).

 

[Jon_Sauve123]

Unfinished
Novel: Blood and Boojije ("boojije" is basically a certain type of beer in my world)
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 76,751
Status: Life has been quite hectic over the past month and I have been writing more slowly than normal. But it seems to be picking up and, if my estimate of 95k words holds out, I might be finished in a week or two. My goal for this year was four novels; when this one is done I will have achieved that goal. I'll probably write mostly short stories until 2010, when I hope to finish six novels!

 

[Jon_Sauve123]

Finished!
Novel: Blood and Boojije
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 93,067
Status: I wrapped it up today, and this marks 10 complete novels. The double digits feel good! I usually give my books a few days before I really believe they're finished. Most of the time I remember a few little things that I forgot to include.

And I predicted 95k in my last post. For whatever reason my books always seem to come 2k under my prediction.

 

[chopper]

Empire Dance (part 1)
episodic SF - lots of empires, no dancing
27k+
proceeding slowly

Malessar's Curse
ye olde fantasy
71k+
starting to get to the real meaty bits now....

Reever's Mark
crusty fantasy
20k-ish
nope, nothing happening.

Empire Dance
episodic SF
31k+
on the back burner once more...

Malessar's Curse: The Heir to the North
oooh, look, it's got a subtitle!
73k+,
now with chapters 1-8 complete in ms format

Reever's Mark
hero inherits cursed gauntlet; nothing happens...
20k-ish
hibernating until further notice

 

[Lioness]

My NaNo, which has a title, but that no longer really fits it
36K

 

[Culhwch]

You all sicken me.

(Not really, but it's ever so slightly discouraging, nonetheless...)

 

[Prototype]

Hey- mind if I join in?

Unfinished
Novel: Edge of the World
Genre: Urban Fantasy(ish) with a twist.
Word Count: 121,953
Status: About a quarter of the way through the fourth edit. It is turning into quite a beast! I reckon I need to add about 10,000 words to some parts of the book whilst losing the same amount from elsewhere to keep it at around the 120k (saleable) mark. I can do it. Really.