The chronicles word counter!

[Mouse]

Good luck, Perp!

As for me, I am exhausted. I feel like I could sleep for a week. But, I have just finished the novel. 79,000 words exactly. First draft of The Barbarians' Key, finite.

 

[Perpetual Man]

And a massive cheer and round of applause for the Mouse!

 

[chopper]

Novel: Unique title, need to trademark it first.
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Word-count: 41 thousand; feels like half way to the finish, but I'm writing from the ending backwards and from the beginning forwards, and still it remains fluid, interesting and surprising.
Status: I try to finish half a chapter each day.

yeah, i did that... it hurt.

 

[Mouse]

And a massive cheer and round of applause for the Mouse!

Ta muchly.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Short: Inception, edited, corrected and submitted... (1,500 words)

Short For the Want of A Mouse edited, just needs to be corrected. (5,250 Words)

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Well done, Perp.

this is a useful column, I hadn't seen it yet.

ok
the plot sci/horror 1st draft completed 1580 words
Lest we forget sci fi 1st editing completed, 5529 but stuck on one scene and hoping for inspiration from questions forum

Abendau rising sci fi 1st draft completed, 1st 8 chapters edited, rest to be edited 71013 the weakest chapter was critiqued and has been rewritten today, but there is a lot of editing to do with this one.

A time to dance sequel to above, on hold until above is done, cos I like it better, thus distracting me from the other 119000 words; but mostly complete.

submitted
game theory horror short
the queen's gift sci fi short; also forms the prologue to the third book of the series.

 

[Anne Martin]

I'm moving, so everything is on hold. I can't get my head around writing at all right now.

 

[Nik]

'P for Pleistocene'

After a ghastly Summer when I tore up more than I wrote, I've made progress. I'm now four complete chapters on from that dreadful gulch, and into my project's end-game.

So, current word count ~136 k and chapters = 46.

Another ~20 k words should see 'PfP' through to an up-beat conclusion.

There's only one down-side: I've been writing 'PfP' for 18 months and dread the commitment I'd need for the sequel I've plotted. One way out would be to curtail that as a novelette...

 

[Perpetual Man]

Finished the editing on For the Want of A Mouse not submitting it just yet as someone is having a read...

Just started the editing on Sanguisuga 1: Openings 3,300 words.
Bit of an unusual one this, part of four shorts that all interlink. I was asked to write them years ago and nothing came of it, and I thought I'd lost part one. Then I found it only it wasn't Part one it was part two again. The last week I was going through some papers and found Openings stuck between them. Once OCR program later and here we are.

 

[Perpetual Man]

And have just had the first response, in this instance for ...And a Tale in the Telling, it was a rejection, but I've submitted it elsewhere straight away.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Finished the editing on Openings (3,300 words) No submission for this one yet, at least until I get the other two parts edited...

In the meantime I'm about to start work on the editing of The Finger of God (4,500 words), but just as I started printing it out the ink ran out. Sigh.

For the Want of a Mouse should be submitted somewhere early this week.

 

[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.

Unfinished Novel: The Eternity Sphere

Genre: SF for YA (probably)

Word Count: 118,719

Status: I thought I had a couple of chapters to go, but no. I've just finished the main story today (in the barber's) and now just have the epilogue left! It feels so odd to be so close to the finish and I'm a little apprehensive of wrapping the story up now. Still, I'm looking forward to taking a break when I'm done and then working on submitting some short stories.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Finished short story I've been struggling with for weeks; 1700 words, review over the next couple of days before submission.

first book of trilogy currently shelved as I concentrate on the sequel, and the most readily accessible.

Sequel still undergoing editing, up to chapter 10 now; word count has reduced from 150000 to 145000, I'm hoping to get it down near the 120000 mark; I'm wondering am I the only person in this thread going backwards instead of forwards?

One more short story to come up with, but I have a bit of time on this one, so I'll let it simmer away in the deep recesses of my mind

 

[Nik]

'P for Pleistocene'

52 chapters, 148 kwords done, one (1) chapter to go !!

I've also got a post-script which leads into a sequel I daren't start for a while: I've been writing 'PfP' since Feb 2010, albeit with several months hiatus back in the Summer, and I'm too tired to dive into another project...

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Yay still going backwards to go forwards. Total edited now stands at 20000, total words have dropped to 140000, so I'm hopeful I'm on target for my 120000 greener meaner WIP

 

[alchemist]

Novel: The Eternity Sphere

Genre: SF for YA (probably)

Word Count: 121,499

Status: Draft one FINISHED all of ten minutes ago. YEEESSSS!!!! I now know what the last word of the novel is -- "open", and I decided to leave the unrequited love story, if not requited, at least optimistic.

 

[Nik]

'P for Pleistocene'

It's finished !
It's finished !!
It's finished !!!

151 k-words plus the teaser for the sequel...

A couple of quirky short-stories plus a severe bout of depression aside, I've been writing 'PfP' for almost twenty months non-stop. It is the longest single story I've written, by ~10 k-word margin. I've been editing as I go, so it is as 'done' as I can make it. All I need to do now is save up for a new whatsit for my laser printer so I can have it in hard copy...

What to do next ??
I've been looking at the scraps of other stories that made it into my WIP notepads along the way. One's 'Fairly Hard' SF, but I've only got half a tale. Another, that I woke up with this morning, would be an urban fantasy detailing the bizarre return of magic. That, however, is currently beyond my skill to tell. The third option could be a tight procedural, a rural 'Where were you' when that short story's BigBadBugs invaded...

 

[The Judge]

Well done, both! Good luck with any revisions, alchemist, and with the next book, Nik.

 

[alchemist]

Thanks TJ. That's the easy bit done.

 

[Anne Martin]

I'm completely on hold. I've been ill, and am emigrating back to the homeland in a month. Much to do.