Writing Update
Feb. 3rd, 2010 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuStruggling with the Ego today. I read through the remainder of the novel. There's some good stuff there. There's also plenty I see that I don't like. I need to remember that that's my ego talking. I need to remember that snippy liked it very much. I need to remember that I am not the best judge of my own work when I'm in the middle of it, as I am with this novel.
It's not easy.
I managed about 1,344 new words on Strange Attractors today. I'm averaging around a thousand words, maybe a little more, each day I work on it. Around a third of what I'd hoped I'd achieve. Pretty puny word count. (On the other hand, Robert B. Parker made quite a career for himself writing 1250 words a day, six days a week. So it's nothing to sneeze at. But I want to do better.)
On the gripping hand, I think I've done about as much as I can with extending existing scenes. Adding to the novel is going to require adding additional scenes. I have a couple of ideas for that, though nothing solid yet. But since I want to punch up the ending, that's one of the obvious places to do it. So it's not like I'm not making progress, or not working on it.
It's just going a lot slower than I'd hoped it would. Perhaps I should decide on a smaller side project to work on sometimes for a change of pace, and to feel like I'm not just spinning my wheels. Yeah. I think so.
Project: Strange Attractors
Words Written Since Last Report: 4,769 (it's still going fairly slowly)
Stories in Circulation: 11 (two stories returned and not resubmitted yet)
Rejections: 27 (ditto)
Stories Accepted: SEVEN (sold another erotica to Cobblestone the other day)
snippy liked it very much. I need to remember that I am not the best judge of my own work when I'm in the middle of it, as I am with this novel.It's not easy.
I managed about 1,344 new words on Strange Attractors today. I'm averaging around a thousand words, maybe a little more, each day I work on it. Around a third of what I'd hoped I'd achieve. Pretty puny word count. (On the other hand, Robert B. Parker made quite a career for himself writing 1250 words a day, six days a week. So it's nothing to sneeze at. But I want to do better.)
On the gripping hand, I think I've done about as much as I can with extending existing scenes. Adding to the novel is going to require adding additional scenes. I have a couple of ideas for that, though nothing solid yet. But since I want to punch up the ending, that's one of the obvious places to do it. So it's not like I'm not making progress, or not working on it.
It's just going a lot slower than I'd hoped it would. Perhaps I should decide on a smaller side project to work on sometimes for a change of pace, and to feel like I'm not just spinning my wheels. Yeah. I think so.
Project: Strange Attractors
Words Written Since Last Report: 4,769 (it's still going fairly slowly)
Stories in Circulation: 11 (two stories returned and not resubmitted yet)
Rejections: 27 (ditto)
Stories Accepted: SEVEN (sold another erotica to Cobblestone the other day)