The chronicles word counter!

[David Evil Overlord]

I, Singularity now 91,877 words...although some of that will end up in a sequel...

I've written the last line of this novel, though:

So, super hero school. How hard could it be?

 

[Juliana]

Nice line DEO!

Ratsy, you really are on a roll.

 

[Glitch]

Written 1,160 words this evening. Not of the main WIP, unfortunately. But it's still the biggest chunk I've done in a while.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Written 1,160 words this evening. Not of the main WIP, unfortunately. But it's still the biggest chunk I've done in a while.

Hmmmmm. On the one hand good. On the other, naughty. Finish the wip!!!

 

[Juliana]

Sat down to do some editing this morning and ended up writing 1000 words of a new project that's been driving me nuts. Tentatively named Screened for now.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

You're all very bad! Getting diverted. I edited 12 pages of book three of the trilogy. Which is what I was supposed to be doing. And then beta feedback made me want to go to do something else.

But I will resist.


Maybe....

 

[Juliana]

You're all very bad! Getting diverted. I edited 12 pages of book three of the trilogy. Which is what I was supposed to be doing. And then beta feedback made me want to go to do something else.

But I will resist.


Maybe....

Hmm, let's see if you can resist!!

To be honest, I've been pretty well behaved. I've been dying to start this one but have valiantly resisted. Which means I hadn't formally opened a file on the computer, although I had a ton of scribbled paper notes!

However, I'm almost done with edits/revisions and a step away from starting querying. I just have the boring bits left; last run-through for grammar, stuff like that. Unless my critique group finds anything awful! But needing a distraction so today I finally let Screened off the leash. Fun!!

 

[ratsy]

I have finished three shorts in just over a week. That is the most writing I've done in that short of a span

Utopia - 3488
Apollo 20 - 4745
The Attic - 3464

If only I could focus on my book idea, I'd be rolling.

So, that was a good week. Since then I've only written a little bit. About 1800 words of my Sekrit Santa story and 1000 of my book Sleepy Grove. Of course I have decided to start another story too, a ghost story based in Central Park (which i will work on longhand whilst sitting in the Park soon)

The Attic has been picked up and accepted by an Anthology! So that is really cool news. I did it quite fast since I saw an anthology call was expiring, and didn't expect them to say they loved it and I was in. Woohoo

I have submitted Utopia to a Post-Apoco anthology and am waiting to hear back on that, and Apollo 20 is sitting in Mr. Compton's hands so who knows? Maybe I could have hit 3 out of the park in a week...or at the very minimum I hit a 0.3333 which isn't too bad.

 

[Juliana]

That's wonderful, ratsy.

I'm now 3,000 words into Screened. Story is moving along quickly. Will have to stop soon and do some proper planning, as I only have a vague idea of where the story will end up.

 

[Remedy]

I've been trying a new regime/routine to try and pull myself out of a brutal period of stagnancy (we're talking months here) on my main WIP. I'm at about the halfway point and I think I froze at the thought of the work ahead of me and the crippling self-doubt (springs had a cool thread and the rest discussing it recently).

Starting Monday this week, I said to myself "Write one page, then you're done for the day."
Took me an hour and a half to write the page but I had such a feeling of relief after. I decided to tell myself that same thing each day this week.

Well its Friday and I have five and a half pages and 1,631 words written this week. Not much to most of you guys here, I know, but a marathon to me! I'm chuffed

You're all doing so well here, keep the good news coming and hopefully I can too!

 

[Juliana]

Nicely done, Remedy! Sometimes you just have to set one food forward to get the journey moving again.

 

[Bowler1]

I'm at 70k with The Many. Slow, but I've had a nice little holiday to recharge my batteries and I've finally started pushing on toward the end now. I have three of four more sections planned and that will be it.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

After a couple of busy weeks which left little time for writing, I've managed 600 words of a 15-17k short this morning so far. That brings me up to almost 15k now, my target. Actually that's not totally true: it was meant to be a 2k short for an anthology, but it grew...

Still a few odds and ends to tidy up, plus all the terrible plot holes I know will be there because I've written this in so many bite-sized chunks.

 

[LittleStar]

Title - In Gold
Genre - Romance(attempted) with a little but of 'beyond normality' thrown in
Word count - 58,366
Start date - 5th June 2013
Status - First draft is complete, and perfectly intime with my plan The bones are set, and ready for the tissues to be added. Notes have been taken for scenes that need specifics included in them, and will be hit in the re-draft. As with all of my projects the enthusiasm tapered off towards the end, as I began my new excitment for my next projects. Re-draft will be fairly soon I think, depending on if I enter the Richard and Judy comp with it... If not, I have a writing module to focus on and several projects to choose from that have been left aside for a year or more. Let the editing proccess begin.

Title - In Gold
Genre - Romance (attempts) with a bit of 'beyond normality' thrown in
Word count - 73,950
Start date - 5th June 2013
Status - After finishing the first draft at this time last year, I put it aside completely until this summer started. I hadn't even visited the Chrons since then, so focused I was on my final year of uni. But with that done, I decided I needed to redraft edit and finish this novel. In the interim I have rethought various aspects of the sorry and structure of the novel, adding in a couple of characters and deepening the relationships between others that were initially just side-sceners. I fact the original draft was only planned to be about the lovers relationship, but it turns out that the husband has more relationship to make up with their child than he does with the wife, and the wife has more relationship with her mother-in-law and husband's best friend than with the husband himself (though always keeping their relationship firmly in the centre of their thoughts and actions). Not to mention that these characters seem to be the most wilful I have made, rarely do the conversations go where I had intended them. They have started a good few fights I hadn't foreseen (but to be fair to them, they have avoided some as well).

It has turned out to be a much deeper work than I had thought (which is good, right?). So far any pieces that I have 'finished' haven't had this depth, I don't think, so I am hopeful for this one. I have until the end of October to finish the rewrites and a decent polish-edit for descriptions and stuff before handing it to my partner to be my guinea pig It should be a good amount of time, but since my 3rd year of uni finished I decided what-the-hay and have signed myself up for another year to get a masters degree as well, so I don't know how much time I will be able to devote to the project exactly. Hopefully enough Am Back on Chrons now regularly (if only lurking) so i'm sure to get inspiration from all of you kind folk.

 

[LittleStar]

Hana Yori Dango, (a Meiji era, end of samurai short) - 3474

This story was finished back in March or April last year, after almost no redrafting I sent it out to a couple of places and on my birthday this year, I got a lovely email saying that it had been accepted for publication in an anthology!! My very first publication and I am so delighted to have justification for my chosen craft I think the publication date is in a months or two. Just wanted to share my good news with you guys.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Fantastic, well done! I love reading others' success stories as it gives me hope.

 

[Bowler1]

The Many - 76k and finally an ending. Some editing in to do on the last three or four sections but nothing more. A week or so more of polish and that will do. This was a hard story to do with weird little aliens, but good fun.

Anyway, book two (if I don't count the three drafts of my first book or re-start of this one).

 

[Phyrebrat]

SS4 entry for Springs - The Folding - now at 18,912 (as opposed the the 14k it was last week).

Going to bed now as my eyes are bleeding

pH

 

[Phyrebrat]

Running total... 20,426 - that's post-minor edit.

I'm aiming to finish The Folding around the 30,000 mark. So much for short story...

pH

 

[LittleStar]

Thanks Kerry. Hopefully it's the first of many.

Title - In Gold
Genre - Romance (attempts) with a bit of 'beyond normality' thrown in
Word count - 73,950
Start date - 5th June 2013
Status - After finishing the first draft at this time last year, I put it aside completely until this summer started. I hadn't even visited the Chrons since then, so focused I was on my final year of uni. But with that done, I decided I needed to redraft edit and finish this novel. In the interim I have rethought various aspects of the sorry and structure of the novel, adding in a couple of characters and deepening the relationships between others that were initially just side-sceners. I fact the original draft was only planned to be about the lovers relationship, but it turns out that the husband has more relationship to make up with their child than he does with the wife, and the wife has more relationship with her mother-in-law and husband's best friend than with the husband himself (though always keeping their relationship firmly in the centre of their thoughts and actions). Not to mention that these characters seem to be the most wilful I have made, rarely do the conversations go where I had intended them. They have started a good few fights I hadn't foreseen (but to be fair to them, they have avoided some as well).

It has turned out to be a much deeper work than I had thought (which is good, right?). So far any pieces that I have 'finished' haven't had this depth, I don't think, so I am hopeful for this one. I have until the end of October to finish the rewrites and a decent polish-edit for descriptions and stuff before handing it to my partner to be my guinea pig It should be a good amount of time, but since my 3rd year of uni finished I decided what-the-hay and have signed myself up for another year to get a masters degree as well, so I don't know how much time I will be able to devote to the project exactly. Hopefully enough Am Back on Chrons now regularly (if only lurking) so i'm sure to get inspiration from all of you kind folk.

Title - In Gold
Genre - Romance with a bit of 'beyond normality' thrown in
Word count - 76,423
Start Date - 5th June 2013
Status - Just (a few minutes ago) finished the first complete read through and have sorted out all of the major additions I needed to include (for now at least). All characters and scene have done what they needed to do, and those last two words that I have been waiting for are finally visible. After another read through to flesh out some descriptions and tidy up scenes and character arcs, it's off to my partner, who is actually my only guinea pig for these things, to have it worked over. With my Masters starting in a few days I'm not sure how much time I'll have for this project, but hopefully it's a few minutes here and there will be all that is needed, rather than my usual 3-4 hours of solid, procrastinated writing. Fingers crossed for a completion before Halloween (Christmas).

It's funny how quickly some conversations, and sometimes whole scenes or ideas, happen; things that in my brain seemed to take up a whole page or more get jotted down in a paragraph or two. Managed to cut down quite a bit of unnessecary waffle in these last few scenes.