Weekly Wordcount
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What is This?
Weekly Wordcount posts have two purposes:
- Personal accountability, to nurture a writing habit throughout the year
- Encouragement for others to do the same
My weekly wordcount goal is set to 2,000 words.
How Did I Do?
Specific wordcounts for me will be put on hold until HTRYN is complete. Talk about a time commitment!
- Choose installment edited and posted.
- Song of Binding – HTRYN work continues. We are on Lesson 10 now.
- Worldbuilding for Stained.
Lessons Learned
I learned something interesting while doing my HTRYN homework this weekend. We’re on Lesson 10; it’s finally time to write the outline for the book we WANT to have. Triage is over.
My lovely co-author and I decided that before we can decide what the first book should contain, we should probably have some idea of where we want the series itself to go. This weekend, I entered “The Monastery” (as Holly calls it). I sat down with a pen and a few blank sheets of paper, and started asking myself questions.
- What is the series plot?
- What big events happen and build to the big series finish? (Yes, “finish”. Believe it or not, I get frustrated at never-ending book series just as much as you do!)
- How many books will it take (at minimum, and hopefully maximum as well) to tell this story? (It’s looking like five)
- In each of those books, what happens? Specifically, who gets thwarted, what are the political events, the “other” events, and the romantic/relationship complications?
Drawing these questions and answers (and a few other notes and scribbles) out on the paper, I found that I plot/plan in spreadsheet format.
Those of you who’ve been teasing me for years (I’m looking at you, Bre!) about my organization habit/hobby/mental imbalance will be unsurprised at this, but I expected my notes to be a lot messier than they were. Instead, they easily transitioned over to a googledocs spreadsheet for discussion with my co-author. Since SHE likes to tease me about my organization, too, I suspect she’s going to get a good laugh over the results of my Monastery work when she checks her email today.
How Did YOU Do?
How is your writing coming along?
I had a psych paper I had to endure over the weekend. I think the final word count was roughly 976?
@Byrd
Ah, the joys of school papers. Thanks for checking in, Byrd! =]
@Byrd
Sheesh! When I was a psych student, our papers were 1500 words minimum. AND we had to walk a mile to college, UPHILL. In Los Angeles. IN THE SNOW. ;)
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LOL Steve. This just had to really “fill the page” more or less. I have a 214 out of 150 in the class so far. So my work ethic on this paper was utter crap. I feel bad about it (marginallly, if not slightly non-existant). I have put my nose in my new comic books and been taken away. I got “The Order of the Stick: On the Origin of PCs” and “The Order of the Stick: Start of Darkness”.
.-= Byrd´s last blog ..Stardate… er… Feb. 18th 2010 =-.