The chronicles word counter!

I had totally forgotten about this thread. I suppose I ought to write up an update.

I very nearly finished Annkhammerad Rising when I ran into a permanent brick wall. After a couple of months of working on a modern day tale of magic and faeries, I've gone back to do a second draft, reworking much of the text from the ground up, expanding my characters more and shedding much of my inexpierience that the first draft suffered with.

Title: Annkhammerad Rising (2nd draft)
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 4008

I'm currently looking at between 1000 and 2000 words a day.

Title: Unnamed modern day fantasy tale
Word Count: Approx. 25,000
Status: Temporarily on hold whilst redrafting

I have been writing anything up to 4000 words a day on this one
but it's gone back to being a side project while I rework my epic.
 
Malessar's Curse
epic tragedy
@19000 words
3 chapters done & dusted, 3 more currently being written (including the cliffhanger, which is still unfinished).
 
Culhwch said:
Novel: Untitled
Genre: Fantasy (Epic/Dynastical)
Word Count: 15 804
Status: Intermittent
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Novel: Untitled
Genre: Fantasy (Epic/Dynastical)
Word Count: 18 047
Status: Still intermittent...

Actually feeling good about this at the moment. Almost a thousand words this morning, which is the best I've done for quite a some time. Pity I have to go to work now...
 
As I've started a new short story today, this would seem an opportune time to join the thread.

Short story: Untitled
Genre: Sci-Fi
Word Count: 597
Status: Active. Still a lot of kinks to work out and I've started off without really knowing where it's going, but confident I'll get there in the end.
 
Story: Untitled (Codename: No Moon)
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Word Count: 624
Status: Freeforming right now, distant goals in mind, but this project may get scrapped, only to be looked at later on and revisited.
 
chopper said:
Malessar's Curse
epic tragedy
@19000 words
3 chapters done & dusted, 3 more currently being written (including the cliffhanger, which is still unfinished).
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@ 23500 words. not moved massively onwards, but i'm close to having 3 consecutive chapters finished at the start as well as 2 nearer the end.
incidentally, this makes 101 sides of A4, 12-point Courier, double-spaced.
 
Malessar's Curse
still an epic tragedy
27212 words
117 doublespaced A4 sheets

still working on chapter 2, though just about at the end of that. need to write faster.
 
It took me a year to write the first book of my current series, as it did with my previous stories, and i did that on paper, little notepads from stationary box (so supreme quality of course!) and it took me three weeks to get it typed up, did about 5,000 a day on average.

Currently doing the second novel in the series and have managed to get about 23,000 done thus far. I have written a chapter of the third book already and while writing the second, ideas are sweeping through my head about the third! Can't help but think ahead.

I am trying to do around 1,000 a day, which i think is good cos i haven't actually hand written it all yet. I think i am on chapter 7 typed up, chapter 13 hand written. I am not sure how long it will be as there is a lot to happen in this one. I have the ending sorted out, going to be one of those endings that really make the reader go, "What! You can't end there!".
 
wow sylvetra, so young and already on the second novel:eek:. I'm at 0 on the finished novel counts.

Wrote the flash fiction 'courtly love' about 170 words for a flash fiction contest.:)
 
Actually, the second book in my current series is my 8th book. I firstly wrote a series when i was 16 of five books, each one about 120,000 words long, some more, the forth was around 200,000 and the fifth about 160,000. Then i moved onto a new series as i was struggling to get them published but after writing that book, i came up with my current series and i think it has a lot more emotion in play. I want the characters to have personality and feelings, to show when they are in a mood, hurt, upset, etc. The main character in the current series is a really likeable character and i want to carry on with his adventures and the machinations surrounding his fate.
 
Have been re-reading and re-thinking some stuff, about a thousand words so far this year (excluding laundry lists and posts), but that may pick up soon.
 
6000 in a day? good grief! are you eating at all?

i'm lucky to find the time for 500-600 in a day.....
 
I usually have a flask of coffee next to me and now and again i nibble some crisps or something. I guess it keeps me thin though. 31,000 words now. When typing up the first novel i was doing about 30,000 a week, so this is pretty slow. I also work full time, and am actually moving onto a better job with longer hours soon so have been doing all the assessments and interviews as well. Plus i travel a lot around the country to see friends, eat out etc.

Busy busy busy...!
 
Novel: Chasing the Sky
Genre: Neo-noir, crime
Word count: 3.063
Status: Moving along slowly but steadily.

Short Story: Fetch!
Genre: Absurdism
Word count: 156
Status: Submitted.

Short Story: Green Religion
Genre: Absurdism
Word count: 173
Status: Submitted.
 
Neo-noir is a genre with elements from the old film noir but in a newish jacket. So characters like the femme fatale and private eye. But I think it's with more vivid description. Good examples are Will Christopher Baer and Craig Clevenger. Not a coincidence they're two of my favorite authors.
 
"This Place Sucks"
Science Fiction (without much science)
Short story
1239 words (aiming for 5000)

my first shot at a short story since...um...1994? an odd amalgam of terraforming, HR issues, and bonsai.
 
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