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P_for_Pleistocene.

Unfinished
Novel: P_for_Pleistocene.
Genre: SF {ISOT ??}
Word Count: 69,950+
Status: Due to a succession of domestic crises, I wrote very little for several weeks. Finally, the words resumed. I've just finished Day #24. I've plotted out a rough time-line for the next dozen chapters, figured out that the finale is about three 'weeks' along...

It isn't great literature, but I think I've learned from excerpts' F&SF critiques to curb my 'said-isms', keep track of the current speaker and generally play nice with my characters...
 
On 18th August, I posted that I was at 119,301 words Three weeks later and I'm down to 116,378 words. Which is good ( I think) as my descriptive text is much tighter and it gives me more words for the two new chapters I need to insert!
 
Unfinished
Novel: P_for_Pleistocene.
Genre: SF {ISOT ??}
Word Count: 73,000+
Status: Had a day and a half to myself, produced 3,100 words in a writing spree. Ah, well, back to RealLife (TM) at five...
 
Ostni's Weave: Mendel's Thread
9,000 Words Currently

Yeah, I actually started writing legitimately for once, instead of world-building and practicing with non-story prose.
 
Mouse said:
Ooh ok, as I've just started working on the novel again...

Unfinished
Novel: The Barbarians' Key
Genre: YA fantasy
Word Count: so far just over 25000, but some of that at the end is notes to remind me who's done what with who.
Status: Well, I reckon I've just written myself into a possible Froghurt-from-Lost fire arrow moment. Oops.
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30,482 now. Including notes.

Trouble is that I've now lost two of the characters. The other characters know they're missing too, it's not just me!
 
More metafiction, eh?

Well, my new opening scene (of Chapter One, not the Prologue) has become two paragraphs (ca. 225 words) in the existing first scene.

I've spent another week or slashing at repeated words and have finally turned my attention (aka "have started looking at") my overuse of the verb, to look. Some of its appearances are valid; I have tried to make them less visible by sometimes using synonyms. The rest are simply my subconscious attempt to pull the reader out of the close 3rd person POV: inserting the POV character unnecessarily between the reader and the events being observed.

So now WiP1 is 128,900 words (word count) long, and 111,500 (based on page count).

When I started to write WiP1, I had aimed for 125,000 words, generated 150,000+ then added the frame story/stories. It looks as if my original target is going to be close to what I end up with. (Given the process, it's almost spooky.)
 
Ostni's Weave: Mendel's Thread
13,000 Words - Another 6 pages added tonight. I never realized how quickly dialogue can make something grow!
 
Unfinished
Novel: Untitled
Genre: Vampire-free urban fantasy
Word Count: 22,084
Novel started: properly, June 2010.
Status: Can now go to bed as word count target achieved.
 
Malessar's Curse: The Heir to the North
epic vengeance-fuelled fantasy
100000 words
status: it's having its guts pulled about a bit, but even with dropping an unneccessary chapter i've finally hit the hundred-k mark. now it looks like there could be another 50k to go... good god, this thing's a monster!
 
chopper said:
Malessar's Curse: The Heir to the North
epic vengeance-fuelled fantasy
100000 words
status: it's having its guts pulled about a bit, but even with dropping an unneccessary chapter i've finally hit the hundred-k mark. now it looks like there could be another 50k to go... good god, this thing's a monster!
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being ill has some decent side-effects for once.
now up to 104k, and the titular warlock has now entered the fray!
 
Novel
Name: The Howl of Allorne
Genre: Medium Fantasy
word count: 97,701 (Microsoft word count. 290 pages)
Status: Rough Draft complete. Working on prologue, and have to add some stuff I missed.
Notes: The story doesn't have chapters but has been split into four separate parts. I'm guess I will have to change it to chapters if I want it to be published?
 
"I am going to suck at NaNoWriMo!!"

No, that's different meta-rules...

Go for it !!
 
Uninteresting fact: If there's one** born every minute, that's only 60 x 24 x 30 (= 43200) for the whole of November, almost 7000 short of the number of words required.


(So perhaps Mouse is correct in her prediction....)





** - Presumably each "one" is some sort of "sucker".
 
P for Pleistocene

Unfinished
Novel: P_for_Pleistocene.
Genre: SF {ISOT ??}
Word Count: 88,400+
Status: After a couple of ghastly 'flu-Blues weeks when I wrote very little, I've managed to finish chapter 31. That completes my fifth ~100kb text file...

The away team is off to the coast again, bearing wicker fish traps and a creel. Meanwhile, the home team have sawn two wicked spearheads from the rubbish bin's tubular stand, so they finally have weapons to take down those wolves and that lone Homotherium aka Scimitar Cat...
 
Found my limit yesterday. Family off to the in-laws and had unfettered 2 hours to write. Did 1500 words before my brain collapsed. 1500 good words, though, where the antagonist, aided by a million year old alien revenge fantasy, beats seven shades of s.... out of his bully.
Must combine 12 separate files/chapters into one document and count.
 
Novel: The Eternity Sphere
Genre: SF for YA (probably)
Word Count: 50061
Status: Near fainting. Thought I had about 30K until I combined them. No longer worried about not having enough material, or not describing protagonist's clothes enough.
 
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