So I’m kind of quiet about my writing. I have previously written one novel a serious labor on my part that I hated when I started to try edit it that it made me give up writing for a long time. This time I have been doing it for a while. Using the magic spreadsheet to keep me in line and its worked I have a really well ingrained writing habit. I have done it every day for 180 days. In that time I have written a good 400 words a day on average and I am ranked 28th for writing chain length.
Now the end of my first draft of a new novel is in sight and it… considerably shorter then I thought that isn’t to say it’s bad. I am happy with my story and I am enjoying writing it but I expected it to have more words. My short story just verges on novella length and is an entirely different subject matter.
My process is easy. I sit down on the bus take out my tablet. Get frustrated over the dodgy keyboard function then write till I have to get off the bus. It works for me because I have a target word count of 400 a day (I plan on upping this when the masters is in a rear view mirror.) I did do something I didn’t do in my last novel, which was plan, it out. I even wrote mock interviews to get to know the characters a bit. Only one survived a pretty serious tablet crash. What is more challenging are the weekends. I am a little bit subject to my partner’s whims when it comes to weekends. I have to actively remind my self to write. Rather then the automatic behavior that seems to come with the weekday bus writing sessions.
There are a lot of things I like about writing. It’s hard to start. To actually make myself start but it only takes about 100 words before I feel I settle into the world I’m creating. When I settle into the flow it’s a definite change I see what’s happening all my senses seem to tune into the story and I escape the ride to work. I forget that I am on the buss. I am with tom and Cassandra. I’m watching moments of beauty and horror.
This is urban fantasy so it’s basically set in London with some magical elements woven in. I really should take more time to get to know London. I have only been twice so my geography is probably awful at least until editing draft one is purely to get the story out.
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So I’m kind of quiet about my writing. I have previously written one novel a serious labor on my part that I hated when I started to try edit it that it made me give up writing for a long time. This time I have been doing it for a while. Using the magic spreadsheet to keep me in line and its worked I have a really well ingrained writing habit. I have done it every day for 180 days. In that time I have written a good 400 words a day on average and I am ranked 28th for writing chain length.
Now the end of my first draft of a new novel is in sight and it… considerably shorter then I thought that isn’t to say it’s bad. I am happy with my story and I am enjoying writing it but I expected it to have more words. My short story just verges on novella length and is an entirely different subject matter.
My process is easy. I sit down on the bus take out my tablet. Get frustrated over the dodgy keyboard function then write till I have to get off the bus. It works for me because I have a target word count of 400 a day (I plan on upping this when the masters is in a rear view mirror.) I did do something I didn’t do in my last novel, which was plan, it out. I even wrote mock interviews to get to know the characters a bit. Only one survived a pretty serious tablet crash. What is more challenging are the weekends. I am a little bit subject to my partner’s whims when it comes to weekends. I have to actively remind my self to write. Rather then the automatic behavior that seems to come with the weekday bus writing sessions.
There are a lot of things I like about writing. It’s hard to start. To actually make myself start but it only takes about 100 words before I feel I settle into the world I’m creating. When I settle into the flow it’s a definite change I see what’s happening all my senses seem to tune into the story and I escape the ride to work. I forget that I am on the buss. I am with tom and Cassandra. I’m watching moments of beauty and horror.
This is urban fantasy so it’s basically set in London with some magical elements woven in. I really should take more time to get to know London. I have only been twice so my geography is probably awful at least until editing draft one is purely to get the story out.
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