The chronicles word counter!

[chopper]

surely every picture is worth 1000 words?

(my hero is a storyteller's daughter. i have to tell the story though; she doesn't...)

 

[Anne Martin]

Progress as of 6 August 2011

1) Out of the Frying Pan (working title)
Genre: Sci-Fi, or off-world fantasy
Current Word Count: 15,400
Status: It's tough going at the moment

2) Novel: The Cry of Angels (provisional title)
Genre: Fantasy/Magical Realism, possible series
Current Word Count: 107,000
Status: Draft 1 with my readers for comments.

3) Novel: The Cult of Hahn
Genre: Epic Fantasy (creation myth/parallel universe)
Current Word Count: 57,257 of 125,000
Status: I'm thinking about this one again.

4) Novel: The Fantastical Adventures of S-69 Lost, working title
Genre: Epic Sci-Fi, first of possible series
Current Word Count: 27,545 of 100,000+
Status: Re-reading

5) Novel: The Wind Whisperer (I'm going to have to change this title)
Genre: Literary Supernatural Fantasy
Current Word Count: 17,745 of 100,000?
Status: Some of my best writing, but it is on hold until I have fully contemplated my navel.

6) Collection: Late Nights with Ezzie Dryar
Genre: Humour, A series of fictitious blogs
Current Word Count: 5500
Status: A fake 500 word blog each day until I get tired of it. It's just something to keep my mind off writer's block.

 

[LittleStar]

Novel - Untitled
Genre - Fantasy
Current word count - 58259
Status - So this last couple of weeks has been really slow, once i hit my 50k word mark I pretty much stopped; was writing only a few hundred words a day, and sometimes not even that much. But, that was only a temporary break, a rest for reaching my set target.
I now have a new target to reach, finished first draft (just the bones, like all my first drafts) by early September, should be about 100k? Back to writing about 3k a day so should be well under the target.

I find the best targets are the ones that you know you can reach, at least in writing anyway, that way you never lose enthusiasm or become discouraged.

Novel - Untitled
Genre - Fantasy
Current word count - 68208
Status - Well, i've been really busy recently so I haven't done as much writing as I would have liked. But i have finished!!! ... ...Kind of, at least. I write in a strange way, I go through the stroy, writing it very, very loosley, then go back and add during first, second, thrid, fourth edits etc... does anyone else write like this?
Anyway, i say i've finished, becasue the bare bones for this novel have been written, and i have somewhat lost enthusiasm for it. So fo now it shall be resigned to the e-shelf to gather e-dust, until I rediscover my enthusiam for it.

Until then i have another project, which has me a little more excited... for now at least.

Novel/Novella - A moment in darkness (working title)
Genre - Dark, psychological, personal sci-fi.
Current word count - 1458
Status - I am liking this story for the moment, so hopefully the word count will continue to be on the up. It only really has one charater, so I don't expect it to be much more than 30-40k.

 

[slack]

Novel/Novella - A moment in darkness (working title)
Genre - Dark, psychological, personal sci-fi.
Current word count - 1458
Status - I am liking this story for the moment, so hopefully the word count will continue to be on the up. It only really has one charater, so I don't expect it to be much more than 30-40k.

Sounds very interesting!

 

[Mouse]

TJ, is Black as Night something new? I always thought you had something finished and you were working on edits.

For me: The Barbarians' Key 69000 words. Getting there slowly! I've just had a character reappear after a bit of an absence. (The character I started a thread about - I decided to go with the not-showing-what-he's-been-up-to option in the end!)

 

[The Judge]

Yep, brand-spanking new. The two space operas are as complete as I can get them at this point (so I suppose I really ought to stop calling them WIPs) but although I've got plenty of plot lines left for the series, fantasy is selling better than SF at present, so I'm diversifying. I had the title and an opening line a couple of years ago, but I only started working on it in March -- and spent most of the next 3 months reading about maps and medieval Italy and generally worldbuilding. Exhausting work it was, too.

 

[Mouse]

Ah, space opera, that's it. I remember now. I do pay attention, see.

 

[Yeoman]

Provisional title: Book 3 - oh so inspiring.
Genre: Fantasy (Modern day)
Word count: 35,767

Status: Rommera, Kazrak and the other Kazgrauh magicians are travelling to the Denikan city of Villasfer to engage the Demon Varaiko; whilst an undead Fourth is protecting a powerful, yet untrained human by the name of Rudi far across the ocean.
Whilst somewhat far in the future, enslaved Demon Wilderma is plotting how to best escape the clutches of Melena Cyan-Howard.

Pondering how to make Rudi's chapters excting and interesting, and completely avoiding any miraculously quick mastery of magic, whilst showing the difficulty of learning magic. Between worrying about if some things are happening too quickly.

 

[alchemist]

A momentous occasion...

Unfinished Novel: The Eternity Sphere

Genre: SF for YA (probably)

Word Count: 101,103!!!

Status: Over 100K words written, and it's chapter 27. I've been more disciplined, writing a chapter per week. I must now take a short break to research improvised booby traps, so my protagonist can extricate himself from a tight spot.

 

[slack]

untitled: 7,894 / est. 20,000

Funny how stories seem to get away from you. Not that this one has -- I just mean the word-count has ballooned. Decided to divide the story into four parts; in the middle of part 2 at the moment. Proving to be a difficult ride with lots of chances to lose direction, but so far so good.
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undermemory (tentative): 11,125 / est. 20,000

Pretty excited to be over 10,000. Almost dizzying for this short story writer. Story's about halfway done. Working on the last scene of part two, which ends with a big twist.
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[chopper]

HKV (MC2)
epic fantasy yay!
20000 words (target 120000)
status: bogged down in chapter 4, but looking forward to leaving Galliarca again...

 

[Star Girl]

Novella: My Name is Robbie
Genre: Children's Science Fiction
Current Word Count: 12,429
Status: Each section is in a chapter, I've just finished Chapter Seven. However I may rewrite it completely after receiving feedback.

 

[GreenKidx]

Goal
Title = Currently untitled, working title Whispering Forest/Sons of the Whispering Forest.

Genre= Fantasy/Alternate History

Word Count= 7,100

Status= In (slow) progress. Kinks worked out. Story is plotted characters are named and I have solid understanding of who the all are now. Had to do a lot of research into the pre-america "North American" continent. Still need to rewrite the first 2,000 words to adjust the point of view and now I also need to adjust the time period reflected in the first bit as well. Ready to dive in deep now!

 

[subtletylost]

hmmmm...

don't bug on these
title: untitled
genre: unknown
word count: 173
status: forgotten until now most likely scrapped later

title: JROTCSOCTAI
genre: unknown
word count: uh.. ehe... 50
status: w.i.p

title: hidaway night terror
genre: horror
word count: 564
status: hiatus until i can work on it

title: name (working title)
genre: non fiction/ autobiography
word count: 136
status: w.i.p just like my life.

title: the house on tybalt lane
genre: horror
word count: 375
status: might work on it some day will update if i do.

title: untitled
genre: fantasy
word count: 691
status: dumped most likely

bug me on these

when to bug?--- if they aren't updated by at least 100 words within a week of posting


title: kowai kawaii
genre: horror/ fantasy
word count: 361 (without title)
status: w.i.p

title: m (working title)
genre: undecided
word count: 1121
status: w.i.p.

title: the littlest fbi agent
genre: crime/action adventure/ sci fi
word count: 1036 (without title/table of contents/chapter title/acknowledgments---with those is 1097)
status: w.i.p.

title: eyes of the law
genre: crime
word count: 7331 (with chapter titles/author's note)
status: my most active w.i.p.

wow that's a lot of stuff most at the top will be dumped though

 

[Mouse]

The Barbarians' Key now at 70,000 words. Sooo nearly there!

 

[slack]

undermemory (tentative): 11,125 / est. 20,000

Pretty excited to be over 10,000. Almost dizzying for this short story writer. Story's about halfway done. Working on the last scene of part two, which ends with a big twist.
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undermemory (tentative): 15,500 / est. 25,000

Middle of part three; the beginning of the climax/resolution that I hope to extend into part four -- another 5-6,000 words. Still interested in the story, writing everyday, but I already feel the next story pushing through. I take that as a sign to finish things up.
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[darkfox]

2 finished, 1 published and 1 I'm working on...

Novel: Untitled
Genre: Fantasy (Steampunk)
Current Word Count: 58,135
Status: Getting back into working on it, took far too much time off to proof-read a completed manuscript. I'm re-reading what I've written trying to get a grasp on the story again even though I have a synopsis jotted down.

 

[chopper]

HKV (MC2)
epic fantasy yay!
20000 words (target 120000)
status: bogged down in chapter 4, but looking forward to leaving Galliarca again...

9 days on, and only 4000 words added.

wait - only 4000? actually, i should be impressed by that total. it takes me to 20% of my planned target, and things are really steaming ahead, much faster than MC1 did. i should have Cassia & co safely back in Hellea by the time we hit 30k. then it gets messy....

 

[LittleStar]

Novel/Novella - A moment in darkness (working title)
Genre - Dark, psychological, personal sci-fi.
Current word count - 1458
Status - I am liking this story for the moment, so hopefully the word count will continue to be on the up. It only really has one charater, so I don't expect it to be much more than 30-40k.

Novel - A moment in Darkness (working title)
Genre - Dark, psychological, personal sci-fi.
Current word count - 23,826
Status - Full steam ahead with this project. Am really enjoying it. Actually scared myslef whilst writing it last night. As for the projected word count. That has gone right out of the window. 20k in, and probably about a quater of the story told... the description needed to create the atmosphere was far more than expected, and my fingers had a whale of a time running away with it to boot... funny how that happens when your in writing mode.

 

[Mouse]

The Barbarians' Key now at 70,000 words. Sooo nearly there!

72k now. Wow. I've written two thousand words in nine days. I'm slacking. Just come to a point where the heroes have to collect one of their group and then fly home, but I'm stalling because that's all that happens. I so want to write 'and then they picked up their friend and returned home.' How do I make that interesting?! Gah. Plus I want to rush through it because once they are home I have the super duper spiffy ending to write.