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30 days of writing recap
6 years ago
AKA It's a month and a half too early for #nanowrimo.
AKA When the muse strikes, go along for the ride.
When I finally started putting my thoughts to disk for part 1 of the Camp Leaning Trees, I ended up taking about a week from start to posting. After the story was posted, it received a decent burst of positive feedback, enough to egg my muse into expanding upon the story. Being the quirky individual that I am, I decided to see how much writing I could do in a 30-day window, retroactively starting when I first put bits to disk for part 1.
That interval is over, so a quick word count tally:
Part 1: 2619
Part 2: 3114
Epilogue: 961
Total: 6694
A bit shy of the 10k word count target for nanowrimo, but not bad. One of my other projects is just over 10k words, but that was written over the course of close to a year, with the file going idle for months at a time. It also contains various markup notes that inflate the word count.
Of course, word count isn't everything. 10k words worth of lorem ipsum would hardly make for an exciting read after all. So let's do a quick analysis of the content:
Beginning: It's a start. I suspect I'd need another part (2500-3000 words worth) to finish off the 'first day' encounters.
Middle: Non-existent. This would probably end up being a series of vignettes, each covering part of a day or days.
End: Anti-climactic. More specifically, the Epilogue is incomplete and picks up after the climax of the story has occurred.
Over all, I'd call it a modest success, even if I wasn't intended to see what I could produce in a 30 day timespan when I started writing.
I'll probably have part 2 posted over the next few days, but the Epilogue may take a bit longer, as there's still some chickenscratch notes in it.
AKA When the muse strikes, go along for the ride.
When I finally started putting my thoughts to disk for part 1 of the Camp Leaning Trees, I ended up taking about a week from start to posting. After the story was posted, it received a decent burst of positive feedback, enough to egg my muse into expanding upon the story. Being the quirky individual that I am, I decided to see how much writing I could do in a 30-day window, retroactively starting when I first put bits to disk for part 1.
That interval is over, so a quick word count tally:
Part 1: 2619
Part 2: 3114
Epilogue: 961
Total: 6694
A bit shy of the 10k word count target for nanowrimo, but not bad. One of my other projects is just over 10k words, but that was written over the course of close to a year, with the file going idle for months at a time. It also contains various markup notes that inflate the word count.
Of course, word count isn't everything. 10k words worth of lorem ipsum would hardly make for an exciting read after all. So let's do a quick analysis of the content:
Beginning: It's a start. I suspect I'd need another part (2500-3000 words worth) to finish off the 'first day' encounters.
Middle: Non-existent. This would probably end up being a series of vignettes, each covering part of a day or days.
End: Anti-climactic. More specifically, the Epilogue is incomplete and picks up after the climax of the story has occurred.
Over all, I'd call it a modest success, even if I wasn't intended to see what I could produce in a 30 day timespan when I started writing.
I'll probably have part 2 posted over the next few days, but the Epilogue may take a bit longer, as there's still some chickenscratch notes in it.
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~rubbervixen
*hops in place eagerly*
