Wednesday Recap
May. 19th, 2010 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinanjuI wrote about 3,000 words of fiction today--all on my novel. I have a couple of short stories I'm mulling over. One needs about a thousand words more to make it long enough to suit me (right in the sweet spot for the market in question). The other needs to be written, as in zero words on it currently. It's just an idea.
Mood swings! We've got yer red hot mood swings! Feeling better about the novel again. It's moving again, which--surprise, surprise--always makes me feel better about it. Or, you know, because I feel better about it, maybe I write more freely. Go figure. The important thing is that I just keep plugging away at it whether I'm happy with it or not.
I'm closing in on 90,000 words, which...yay! Never mind that I reset the goal to 100,000 words. I'll reach that shortly after I hit the 90K mark. That'll make two novels in six months, which means I'll still be on track to complete four novels this year. Which means once I actually start selling them, I'll be doing good! But I'm getting ahead of myself just a bit, so...
Tomorrow: another 3,000 words on the novel.
Stories in Circulation: 12
Rejections: 38
Stories Accepted: SEVEN
Stories to Resubmit: 0
Novel Queries: 1 Novel, 4 queries out
Novel Rejections: 6
Project 1: Starship Repo Man (Tentative Title: Nine Tenths of the Law)
Words Written: 83,328
Things Done In The Novel Today: Reworked a scene to introduce a character earlier in the story. Continued to deal with reactions (by various and sundry) to the nuclear annihilation of Elizabethtown (capital city of planet du jour)*. Our Hero was stopped while driving a stolen bus full of passengers and promptlykidnapped arrested and brought to the local airport, where he's about to be drafted to fly a shipload of refugees from the ongoing civil war to safety, always assuming the Humperdinck** airport doesn't suffer the same fate that struck Elizabethtown.
*Which I didn't mention before because, well, I haven't been describing what's happening in the novel until now, partly because I've been jumping around in the novel, adding scenes as the spirit moved me. But Elizabethtown blowed up real good.
**Yes, Humperdinck. When I need a name for a person, place, or thing, I throw out whatever first comes to mind. When I'm cleaning it up afterward, I can search & replace any that don't make the cut.
Mood swings! We've got yer red hot mood swings! Feeling better about the novel again. It's moving again, which--surprise, surprise--always makes me feel better about it. Or, you know, because I feel better about it, maybe I write more freely. Go figure. The important thing is that I just keep plugging away at it whether I'm happy with it or not.
I'm closing in on 90,000 words, which...yay! Never mind that I reset the goal to 100,000 words. I'll reach that shortly after I hit the 90K mark. That'll make two novels in six months, which means I'll still be on track to complete four novels this year. Which means once I actually start selling them, I'll be doing good! But I'm getting ahead of myself just a bit, so...
Tomorrow: another 3,000 words on the novel.
Stories in Circulation: 12
Rejections: 38
Stories Accepted: SEVEN
Stories to Resubmit: 0
Novel Queries: 1 Novel, 4 queries out
Novel Rejections: 6
Project 1: Starship Repo Man (Tentative Title: Nine Tenths of the Law)
Words Written: 83,328
Things Done In The Novel Today: Reworked a scene to introduce a character earlier in the story. Continued to deal with reactions (by various and sundry) to the nuclear annihilation of Elizabethtown (capital city of planet du jour)*. Our Hero was stopped while driving a stolen bus full of passengers and promptly
*Which I didn't mention before because, well, I haven't been describing what's happening in the novel until now, partly because I've been jumping around in the novel, adding scenes as the spirit moved me. But Elizabethtown blowed up real good.
**Yes, Humperdinck. When I need a name for a person, place, or thing, I throw out whatever first comes to mind. When I'm cleaning it up afterward, I can search & replace any that don't make the cut.