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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1350 on: November 27, 2019, 05:23:44 AM »
2,487 words this morning.  I really want to finish this by the weekend!  :angel:

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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1351 on: November 27, 2019, 09:38:59 AM »
Finished editing book two and now I can get back to writing book three.
           
 
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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1352 on: November 27, 2019, 02:11:05 PM »
Glad I got a bit of writing in. 382 words tonight for a total of 6,075 words and 25 pages.

           
 
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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1353 on: November 28, 2019, 12:58:01 AM »
The writing bug bit me this morning and I wrote 1,227 words for a total of 7,321 and 30 pages.

ETA: Just added another twenty words. The scene just hadn't ended right and those words rounded it off nicely.
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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1354 on: November 28, 2019, 07:43:24 AM »
1,265 words, but I cut and added a few scenes.  It's been a busy morning!  :catrun

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Jeff Tanyard

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1355 on: November 28, 2019, 08:02:33 AM »
Still working on the second draft.  Word count is around 94k, though like I said before, that's not my concern at the moment so much as fixing inconsistencies and whatnot.

The good news is that I've sorted out what I want to do with the soldiers' bio-hoods.  That was bugging me.  I still need to come up with some place names to replace the placeholder names I'm currently using, but there's only a few of them, so that shouldn't be too hard.

There are a couple of places in the book that make me a little teary-eyed every time I go over them, and that's a good sign.  It means I'm hitting the emotional mark.  Hopefully the readers will feel the same.
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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1356 on: November 28, 2019, 08:35:34 AM »
Still working on the second draft.  Word count is around 94k, though like I said before, that's not my concern at the moment so much as fixing inconsistencies and whatnot.

The good news is that I've sorted out what I want to do with the soldiers' bio-hoods.  That was bugging me.  I still need to come up with some place names to replace the placeholder names I'm currently using, but there's only a few of them, so that shouldn't be too hard.

There are a couple of places in the book that make me a little teary-eyed every time I go over them, and that's a good sign.  It means I'm hitting the emotional mark.  Hopefully the readers will feel the same.

"Read it and weep. I always do." Joan Wilder, Romancing the Stone.

I know I've done a good job if I get a little teary eyed here and there.
           
 
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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1357 on: November 28, 2019, 09:06:30 AM »
Still working on the second draft.  Word count is around 94k, though like I said before, that's not my concern at the moment so much as fixing inconsistencies and whatnot.

The good news is that I've sorted out what I want to do with the soldiers' bio-hoods.  That was bugging me.  I still need to come up with some place names to replace the placeholder names I'm currently using, but there's only a few of them, so that shouldn't be too hard.

There are a couple of places in the book that make me a little teary-eyed every time I go over them, and that's a good sign.  It means I'm hitting the emotional mark.  Hopefully the readers will feel the same.

"Read it and weep. I always do." Joan Wilder, Romancing the Stone.

I know I've done a good job if I get a little teary eyed here and there.

Love the end of this.  And I watched the movie long before I wrote books. LOL 

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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1358 on: November 28, 2019, 12:39:46 PM »
Added another 694 to this morning's total for 33 pages and 8,040 words.

           
 
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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1359 on: November 28, 2019, 12:42:56 PM »
Still working on the second draft.  Word count is around 94k, though like I said before, that's not my concern at the moment so much as fixing inconsistencies and whatnot.

The good news is that I've sorted out what I want to do with the soldiers' bio-hoods.  That was bugging me.  I still need to come up with some place names to replace the placeholder names I'm currently using, but there's only a few of them, so that shouldn't be too hard.

There are a couple of places in the book that make me a little teary-eyed every time I go over them, and that's a good sign.  It means I'm hitting the emotional mark.  Hopefully the readers will feel the same.

"Read it and weep. I always do." Joan Wilder, Romancing the Stone.

I know I've done a good job if I get a little teary eyed here and there.

Love the end of this.  And I watched the movie long before I wrote books. LOL 



Wonderful movie.
           
 
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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1360 on: November 29, 2019, 05:30:32 AM »
I finished!!!  4,277 words this morning.  End of the book and the series.  :smilie_zauber:

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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1361 on: November 29, 2019, 08:50:38 AM »
I finished!!!  4,277 words this morning.  End of the book and the series.  :smilie_zauber:

Destination, determination, deliberation, paid off. And now you can apparate, too!! 

 :banana: :dance: :banana:
           
 
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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1362 on: November 29, 2019, 09:00:02 AM »
I finished!!!  4,277 words this morning.  End of the book and the series.  :smilie_zauber:

Destination, determination, deliberation, paid off. And now you can apparate, too!! 

 :banana: :dance: :banana:

Apparate...I like that!  There is some magic in the series.  :catrun

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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1363 on: November 30, 2019, 01:50:49 AM »
No words so far today.  Trying to decide which book to start next.  :writethink:

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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1364 on: November 30, 2019, 03:00:29 AM »
I took last night off. I'll be getting back on track tonight.

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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1365 on: December 02, 2019, 01:04:56 PM »
Did promotions all weekend and decided to work on a mystery next.  Should be fun!  :catrun

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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1366 on: December 02, 2019, 02:38:34 PM »
Been working on the blurb for book one. All the various iterations amount to 1,613 words, not all of them new. But I'm sure there are at least 50 new words in there somewhere.

           
 
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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1367 on: December 04, 2019, 01:47:37 AM »
So nice having a few days off...but back to work today!  I might start with a short fairytale, then write the mystery.  :smilie_zauber:

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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1368 on: December 05, 2019, 06:06:21 AM »
Mainly promotions today, but I did manage 200 words during lunch.  Good to be back in a story.   :dog1:

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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1369 on: December 05, 2019, 06:17:07 AM »
A few more words written on the blurb. Not 50, but it feels more like 50K.

           
 
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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1370 on: December 05, 2019, 08:53:52 AM »
689 words total today.  :smilie_zauber:

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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1371 on: December 05, 2019, 08:54:27 AM »
A few more words written on the blurb. Not 50, but it feels more like 50K.

Best of luck with the blurb!

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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1372 on: December 05, 2019, 02:03:56 PM »
Just got book one back from the copy editor. New rule, at least for me, no comma between a name and Jr or Sr.

I got about 1/3 of the way through plugging in the changes. I'll be ready to put it up for pre-order tomorrow. Really, I will. Commas are killing me.
           
 
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diisha392

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1373 on: December 08, 2019, 01:52:09 AM »
74 words and shopping at a Christmas craft fair to start my day. Now to get a load of laundry in the washer and ready for writer's group this afternoon :)
 
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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1374 on: December 08, 2019, 09:29:03 AM »
No words today.  Facebook parties all day yesterday and updating a few covers today. 

I did edit a little...but nothing new in the story.  :angel:

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Jeff Tanyard

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1375 on: December 08, 2019, 12:32:30 PM »
I'm almost done with this second draft.  Word count is over 98k, but as I've said before, word count isn't a good indicator for progress on the second draft.  This draft is about fixing things and smoothing it all out.  Daily word counts are only a goal during the first draft.

I'm hoping to start the third draft either tonight or tomorrow.  I'm hoping to publish in January or February.  I'm not a fast writer, and I'm an even slower reviser.  But I'm chugging along.
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Jeff Tanyard

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1376 on: December 09, 2019, 10:52:00 AM »
Second draft is done.   :banana:

Word count is 100k and change.

Third draft is up next.  This is the mobi/line-editing draft.
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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1377 on: December 09, 2019, 11:13:09 AM »
Second draft is done.   :banana:

Word count is 100k and change.

Third draft is up next.  This is the mobi/line-editing draft.

Congrats, Jeff!  :goodpost:

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diisha392

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1378 on: December 09, 2019, 11:51:18 AM »
439 words added to the WIP as I start going back through and adding in the scenes that I stopped halfway through and skipped ahead to something easier or just skipped altogether on the first pass
 
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Lynn

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1379 on: December 10, 2019, 07:46:31 AM »
Well, I keep forgetting to post here daily but I have finally beat my own record for daily fiction writing. I'm now at 126 consecutive days of writing fiction. :D

Oh, and I decided to raise the bar a few days ago, once I'd broken my own record. From now on, I have to write at least 50 words or it doesn't count. If I delete a bunch and end with a negative, I have to be able to prove to myself that I did write at least 50 words (it happens, when I inevitably realize the story has stalled and I need to go back and make another run at it). I have a notes column in my spreadsheet and I'll note the proof there for myself.

:D
Don't rush me.
 
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diisha392

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1380 on: December 10, 2019, 12:35:25 PM »
130 words today
 
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Lynn

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1381 on: December 11, 2019, 12:44:17 AM »
1485 words yesterday.
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diisha392

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1382 on: December 11, 2019, 12:53:55 PM »
291 words as I continue working on my first draft and I've now connected another two scenes  :icon_eek:
 
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Lynn

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1383 on: December 12, 2019, 05:10:42 AM »
224 words yesterday.

Already doing better than that today.  :banana:
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diisha392

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1384 on: December 12, 2019, 01:02:45 PM »
169 words but no closer to the end as my characters decided to take a short detour (and it has to be short because the taxi driver is only waiting five minutes for them!)
 
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twicebitten

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1385 on: December 14, 2019, 05:50:31 AM »
dropping in for first time to say 3240 words today.

I just wrote a different novel draft in 15 days in the month before, so it's flowing, and I'm grateful it is. I averaged 1500 words per hour of writing with that, which is better than I typically get. I prefer to write 3000 new words per day and a draft in under a month. That seems to be my sweet spot. (And no, I can't do that month after month. Two months in a row is pushing it!)
 
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Lynn

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1386 on: December 14, 2019, 07:38:05 AM »
486 day before yesterday, and 70 yesterday that I wouldn't have gotten if I hadn't set a 50 word lower limit for myself. :)
Don't rush me.
 
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Lynn

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1387 on: December 15, 2019, 04:44:25 AM »
479 words yesterday. :)
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twicebitten

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1388 on: December 15, 2019, 05:56:26 AM »
got my 3K today. Hoping to have a draft by Jan 10 at the latest. (no company coming, only one day of holiday stuff that cuts into my morning writing time.)
 
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diisha392

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1389 on: December 15, 2019, 11:50:51 AM »
1K today and some editing
 
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Maggie Ann

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1390 on: December 16, 2019, 09:36:08 AM »
Finally got back to work on book three but I had to read back a bit because I couldn't remember where I was.

316 words.

Plus did a bit of editing on book two.

           
 
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Lynn

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1391 on: December 17, 2019, 02:46:07 AM »
50 words yesterday and 73 the day before, and whew, I'm glad I have a better plan for today. :)
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Lynn

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1392 on: December 18, 2019, 03:19:21 AM »
The plan worked. I can hardly believe it. :D

I wrote 2,271 words yesterday.
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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1393 on: December 18, 2019, 03:53:57 AM »
The plan worked. I can hardly believe it. :D

I wrote 2,271 words yesterday.

Congrats, Lynn!  :goodpost:

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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1394 on: December 19, 2019, 01:45:49 PM »
490 words in my fairytale.  Good to get something written today!  :smilie_zauber:

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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1395 on: December 20, 2019, 08:02:13 AM »
937 words today. I thought this chapter seemed a little longer.  These are all shorter chapters for the fairytale story on my website.   :smilie_zauber:

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Lynn

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1396 on: December 22, 2019, 01:30:30 PM »
I'm still writing every day, and I hope to make it through the holidays without breaking that streak! Up to 138 consecutive days of writing now. (Fiction.)

Since my last post:
1,082
328
64
104

Today is still in progress but I'm already above 50 words, so I'm posting now. :D
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Lynn

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1397 on: December 23, 2019, 04:02:48 AM »
216 yesterday. :D

Wish I'd been more disciplined. I'm at a good part in the story and you'd think it'd be easy writing because of my high interest level in it, but nah. It's just as much of a pain to write as anything else is. Some days I really wonder what the heck it is that keeps me coming back to writing every day.
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Lorri Moulton

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1398 on: December 23, 2019, 05:52:29 AM »
216 yesterday. :D

Wish I'd been more disciplined. I'm at a good part in the story and you'd think it'd be easy writing because of my high interest level in it, but nah. It's just as much of a pain to write as anything else is. Some days I really wonder what the heck it is that keeps me coming back to writing every day.

Knowing it's going to be a wonderful story!  :dog1:

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Lynn

Re: 50+ words a day...no matter what!
« Reply #1399 on: December 23, 2019, 06:08:16 AM »
216 yesterday. :D

Wish I'd been more disciplined. I'm at a good part in the story and you'd think it'd be easy writing because of my high interest level in it, but nah. It's just as much of a pain to write as anything else is. Some days I really wonder what the heck it is that keeps me coming back to writing every day.

Knowing it's going to be a wonderful story!  :dog1:

Knowing I'll never know the end of it if I don't keep writing, I guess! :D

I don't plot in advance for that very reason. Know thyself is very good advice when it comes to self-motivation. :D
Don't rush me.
 
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