“It’s not what you think.”

[mugenmine]

Stuck: Day 24
Chapters: 1-5 (draft 1)
Total @10K

Draft 0 has come as far as it can. I managed about 11K of writing from all possible angles before I hit the "you really should pull this shit together before this just becomes a bag of words" realization kicked in. So now I'm trying to do just that. The attempt to get a proper, linear, first draft is on. The game is on! (It's so not on...)  I've excised a chapter, written a proper story/action outline, played musical chairs with all of the scenes,  and pasted them back into some sort of order, so now... now...

Now I have to start from the top and just write it through from start to finish. There is about 10K of content in there, but I still have to just do it over and try to keep/paste/salvage as much as I can. Not going to worry too much about proper close John third right now. Just managing a draft that I can really start digging into. At least it's starting to feel like something coherent, if not still weird. But I guess writing this series will always kind of feel weird.

So now I'm just procrastinating and writing this, as the thought of starting this overhaul kinda gives me the hives and makes me feel like napping. Napping... But only 500 words must be made today. I can at least do that... The chairs in Bauhaus are like wood covered bricks. I think I need lunch... and a nap. And maybe a cookie. 

Comments

[mugenmine.livejournal.com]

15K!!! That is awesome!! Wow, you are kicking ass! Currently I'm at about 13.2K. Steady steady :-)

I don't know, trumpeting your successes about your writing progress? I think that's a cool thing... I like to read how folks are progressing, especially on a challenge like this. It motivates me to keep at it too.

Why wouldn't you blog about writing? I do it to process what I'm going through. But I just love reading about writers writing about writing! Call me crazy! I'd love to read about your process.

I like the schedule/format/rules too. Sometimes they really help having that kind of structure. Having a goal also helps chip away at the words :-)

It's great that you can switch between projects, I really wish I could do that. I've tried and it wasn't so good. But I am trying to switch things up this year so we shall see. My only real goal is to finish stories.

And wow! Teen Wolf! Yeah that's another fandom I love from afar. I watch the show religiously, but am not in the fandom. I guess I ship a rare-pair? Stiles and Scott? Is that considered a rare pair? I just know the monolith that is Sterek...

Well I look forward to your blogging. and again, YAY on the awesome word count! :-D We can do this!

xoxo

[percygranger]

13k is excellent work. :) I'm honestly side-eyeing myself, but apparently this is what I get when I commit to writing 400 words a day. It's just small enough so I can be confident of hitting it with a modicum of effort, but it pushes me to make the effort in the first place, you know?

I agree, your posts about writing (and talking to my friends) do help remind me I'm not alone in this little self-imposed race against ourselves we've got going. I'll do my best to go for at least once a week for this month, then adjust to whatever feels comfortable from there.

TW is just crazy addictive, no? I started and then my friends got into it. We hate and love it in nearly equal measure.

All TW pairings are rare compared to Sterek! I think after that you get the hetero canon ones, like Scott and Allison, Erica and Boyd, Lydia and -douchebag-, er, that jock dude that went to London... :) Isaac is definitely up and coming, I think.

Stiles and Scott are cute together (one of my beta-ees, ureshiiichigo, is writing a fake relationship fic with them, it's fun!), but they aren't really my favorite. I do like Sterek, but I love trying out all the different pairings possible. I think so far the Sheriff and Chris Argent are my favorite. And then I've written some Cora/Lydia, of all things. I call it Lyra. :D

Perhaps that is what I shall post. That and Mycroft feels. Because Mycroft. :)