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loaded_march) wrote2012-01-23 07:39 pm
loaded_march) wrote2012-01-23 07:39 pm
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Missed metrics
I seem to have neglected the metrics again, so here they are:
Friday: 2,000
Saturday: 4,500
Sunday: 2,500
Monday: 3,000
Yesterday, I had a brief flail-moment because I wrote fluff, and I wanted to delete it all. Fortunately, I was talked down from the ledge, but it still bothers me that it's there, and I figured out why -- I don't have any build-up in the previous chapters that lead to this particular scene. At some point I will have to go back and add more words. This is on top of already having to add more words to tie up a few loose strings, and deleting/rewriting a subsection of words because I am not ready to write this other scene.
At the moment, I'm so annoyed with Part... um. Right, I'm writing Part 9 (I forgot for a second)... I'm so annoyed with Part 9 that I might have to strip it of the nice shiny title that I'd come up with before I even started writing. The truth is I might strip it anyway, it no longer seems to apply.
Damn it, LM. Why do you have to pick now to throw a tantrum? Is this because of the BB plots I came up with? You can't possibly be jealous of them. They won't hardly stack up to your word count and convoluted plot and staying power. They'll come and go in 30,000 words. What? No, I won't promise that. You know what I'm like. I might say 30,000, but it'll end up more like 60,000, and -- hey, where do you think you're storming off to, young man? Don't you dare slam that door --!
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I've been on a writing binge myself, pulling out 18K in the last three and a half days and I can feel the word counts disintegrate, and that's only THREE AND A HALF DAYS. How you do it week in and week out I'll never bloody know.
You're amazing. And a bit scary. Scarily amazing.
Sorry, just had to say that.
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Still, 18K over three and a half days is pretty damn good! That's. A hell of a lot! I don't think I've done that in a long, long time.
I wrote a post today to say how I manage the word count, if it helps me not look so scary? I hope it does...
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You do this to torture me, don't you? I think I have a working equation and you just throw another detail that means I have to rework it. Then you throw a few additional counts just for kicks.
*pokes at word count* So where in this are your bad writing days?
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Yes, why, yes, I do it to torture you. Are you tortured yet? Because if not, I can try harder?
The bad writing days are the by-the-skin-of-my-teeth 2,000 word (or less) days, when I just barely make my minimum goal for the day.
Those are also, coincidentally, the days where I have to write the scenes I don't find easy to write.
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Yes, I do take that into calculation now...
2,000 on a bad day. I wish I had bad days like that...
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Oh. Um. I'll do better on the chapter front!
As for bad days...
You'll get them! I promise!
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Haha. I think LM does not need to be jealous of any other fic :D It's already the longest fic I've ever seen in this fandom.
(Lol. I just googled some wordcounts for epic books and realized that LM is about as long as all three Lord of the Rings books. WHAT.)
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I know -- someone told me that a while ago, and when they said (at the time) LM was nearly as long as LoTR, I went WHAT! and sure enough, by the next part, I'd beaten the word count.
Ouch.
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It's not easy, I know. There was a time I could barely squeak out 500 words a day, then I couldn't look at it for days or weeks. The more I wrote, the more it became a habit, and look where it got me!
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