Ayayayy... I'm getting tired of rewriting. I don't even remember when I wasn't working on this project for the last six months, and for me that's as far as I can take a project without having a break, which would explain why I've been slacking off for two weeks.
I wrote something like... 35pgs and 22,500 words. I almost have four new chapters done, and started on chapter 5. I don't know how I feel about this word count, because I haven't even fleshed some areas of the first two chapters the way I would have liked, and the goal was to have the events until their first physical meeting under 70pgs. Ugh, just thinking about it makes my head spin a little bit.
Can I say it's coming along? Well...it's certainly more nuanced than it used to be... plus I'm writing for "Erik" with complete awareness of his circumstances and adding in new themes that are pretty fun to play with, like the story of Briar Rose hooking up with his insomnia and depression, and Lily's past home in Colorado Springs being a thunder/lightning hotspot and her title later on as "Stormcatcher".
I have a feeling that as soon as I finish ch4 I'm going to need to take a break and have the four chapters up for suggestions to make them better. Jenna's already been helping me with that, even with things like "this scene should be moved here to be more affective" etc. etc. etc.
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I wanted to talk about how some of my other 2014 goals are going, especially now that a fuckin' quarter of the year has suddenly gone by, and it's the month of Script Frenzy, which I am not doing.
Yes, I will work on Nosferatu in Love, and YES, I will participate in Script Frenzy (writing 100pgs of script in 30 days)... but April is not a good month for me this time, and it's not as if I would have been socializing with everyone else working on it right now anyway.
Instead, I want to write that AIW hot-tub story! I really, truly, want to finish something for AIW since the idea for that ebook was not just a passive one. Plus, I think it will keep my creative writing muscles flexed and maybe make me a more loosy-goosy with it. When I have trouble writing, it's often because I have structures for doing things that are restricting me from having fun anymore. Not sure what that's about, but it's happening with HT all of a sudden.
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The Orlok coat was saved for and I requested a quote, but my tailor is between cons and extremely busy. She told me she's still trying to think up how she will create a coat for padding like mine, but will fit me without it. Fingers crossed.
I wrote something like... 35pgs and 22,500 words. I almost have four new chapters done, and started on chapter 5. I don't know how I feel about this word count, because I haven't even fleshed some areas of the first two chapters the way I would have liked, and the goal was to have the events until their first physical meeting under 70pgs. Ugh, just thinking about it makes my head spin a little bit.
Can I say it's coming along? Well...it's certainly more nuanced than it used to be... plus I'm writing for "Erik" with complete awareness of his circumstances and adding in new themes that are pretty fun to play with, like the story of Briar Rose hooking up with his insomnia and depression, and Lily's past home in Colorado Springs being a thunder/lightning hotspot and her title later on as "Stormcatcher".
I have a feeling that as soon as I finish ch4 I'm going to need to take a break and have the four chapters up for suggestions to make them better. Jenna's already been helping me with that, even with things like "this scene should be moved here to be more affective" etc. etc. etc.
* * *
I wanted to talk about how some of my other 2014 goals are going, especially now that a fuckin' quarter of the year has suddenly gone by, and it's the month of Script Frenzy, which I am not doing.
Yes, I will work on Nosferatu in Love, and YES, I will participate in Script Frenzy (writing 100pgs of script in 30 days)... but April is not a good month for me this time, and it's not as if I would have been socializing with everyone else working on it right now anyway.
Instead, I want to write that AIW hot-tub story! I really, truly, want to finish something for AIW since the idea for that ebook was not just a passive one. Plus, I think it will keep my creative writing muscles flexed and maybe make me a more loosy-goosy with it. When I have trouble writing, it's often because I have structures for doing things that are restricting me from having fun anymore. Not sure what that's about, but it's happening with HT all of a sudden.
* * *
The Orlok coat was saved for and I requested a quote, but my tailor is between cons and extremely busy. She told me she's still trying to think up how she will create a coat for padding like mine, but will fit me without it. Fingers crossed.
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