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i thought I was going to be ill; I felt so nauseous this morning, I thought I'd maybe caught the dread novovirus - but I seem to have cheated the microbes, at least, I feel a lot better now.
Anyway, it was clear I wasn't going to be doing anything physically strenuous so I sat down by the fire and wrote, or at least, churned out 6,000 words of plot notes for my novel - and I think I finally figured out where that's going, which is good because so far, progress has not been good. The plot, such as it is, is quite simple, but the characters and their motives are complex, as are their doings as they go about their business within the bones of the story. I've not been able to write because I was getting lost; not quite sure what everyone was up to at any given time. I'm trying to remember Ray Bradbury's sage advice; 'Find out what your hero wants, then follow him'. Trouble is, my 'hero' is the one character in the book least likely to know what he wants or how to get it and following him could be why I'm floundering. Anyway, I think I have it sorted now but the copious notes I've made could just turn out to be the ravings of a lunatic. This has happened before.
As the sun went down, I switched to the Academy fic; banged out another 778 words of that and might do more later. Progress, whilst not great is at least extant. Such a turn of events is not to be sneezed at.
And the Zokutou word meter doesn't seem to be working (again).
Such was my day; how about you?
Anyway, it was clear I wasn't going to be doing anything physically strenuous so I sat down by the fire and wrote, or at least, churned out 6,000 words of plot notes for my novel - and I think I finally figured out where that's going, which is good because so far, progress has not been good. The plot, such as it is, is quite simple, but the characters and their motives are complex, as are their doings as they go about their business within the bones of the story. I've not been able to write because I was getting lost; not quite sure what everyone was up to at any given time. I'm trying to remember Ray Bradbury's sage advice; 'Find out what your hero wants, then follow him'. Trouble is, my 'hero' is the one character in the book least likely to know what he wants or how to get it and following him could be why I'm floundering. Anyway, I think I have it sorted now but the copious notes I've made could just turn out to be the ravings of a lunatic. This has happened before.
As the sun went down, I switched to the Academy fic; banged out another 778 words of that and might do more later. Progress, whilst not great is at least extant. Such a turn of events is not to be sneezed at.
And the Zokutou word meter doesn't seem to be working (again).
Such was my day; how about you?
accomplished
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I love reading about your writing processes; characters that won't explain to you what they're about sounds very frustrating, but I have all confidence that you're going to sort 'em out in the end ::hands over large butterfly net::
My day? Hah! Let's not go there *g*
Keep warm hon - it's not nice out there!
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::pets Snail lovingly::
I'm glad you like reading my ramblings sugar - tbh, I mostly write them as a reminder to myself; they're nothing like as entertaining as your own, alas.
And you're so right about the darn weather, it's practically a hurricane out there.
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((hugs))
That is good news.
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The writing is going well at the moment; I seem to have cleaned out the block and got a few more pars written today. Progress is pretty feeble but at least it's moving in a forwards direction and not the hidjus, one step forward, one step back motion I've been suffering through since I first put finger to keyboard. (o:
((hugs))
And hugs to you, too!
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I took most of the day off for me and my man to go to the dentist. Did some chores, but mostly kind of frittered the day away. Looking over my Mag Seven/TS fic and adding in bits, thinking of
talked about compost with
Thought of a story idea based on plagerism from a post from
Going to finish mopping the danged kitchen floor and go for a walk, which I've postponed now for an hour and a half. I"m going to listen to a podfic of Written by the Victors by
and since my Netflix DVD came today I'll probably end up watching one episode of Angel.
I hope you had a cosy night, you're probably asleep by now.
Laurie
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And any reference to you writing fills my heart with glee.
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I had work today, but I had my first class, and was informed by my TA that I am apparently well-reviewed on "pick your prof", so that was nice...
Entanglement
How's that book of yours coming along?
'Pick your prof'? You get reviewed online? Where can we see this? *g*
Re: Entanglement
Meh. I have so many fanfic obligations at this point that I do little more than think about it. But the last few weeks have given me a lot of fodder: we nearly got our Federal funding cut off because of substantiated incidents of patient abuse and neglect, and then the opening of our new hospital has been delayed sixty days because the place is full of mistakes and hanging hazards...
'Pick your prof'? You get reviewed online? Where can we see this? *g*
Apparently it's a website, pickyourprof.com? I'm not sure; my TA mentioned it last night, said I had a "pretty good" GPA as a prof: 3.2 I said I'd have to check myself out, and he said that might not be a good idea, so I'm not quite sure what to make of that...I may check it out anyway...
Hope you're having a good day!
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Academy: I keep wanting to transcribe my notes, but haven't yet gotten around to doing it. But I probably won't do it before reading the next part that you've already posted. I'm just too curious :-)
Wordmeter: Here's another one that you can use. You just need to edit the url (words and target) in order to reflect what you want it to show and then post it as a picture (with the img tag):
http://picometer.writertopia.com/words=6000&target=100000
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I see you've posted about the Academy story - I haven't read it yet, though (is a wuss *g*). I should have a little more to post tonight anyway. It's coming along well - i's the most enjoyable story I've written in a long time.
Thanks for the link; I got the word-meter to work but couldn't get it to post - hey ho; Academy/Owl is 60% done, Entanglement, still too small to see without a microscope. (o:
I hope your writing is going well, too.
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