The goal of march is to rewrite the chapters I planned up to their first meeting, which was chapter 13 in the first draft and chapter 7 in the second, and I've been managing it so far. I feel a little bit behind, but if I can just push myself tonight and tomorrow I might have chapter three finished.
None of it is very polished, I'm just getting out what I plotted ASAP and fleshing it out and reorganizing afterward, so this month has been a lot like NaNoWrimo. It makes me happy to have gotten as much done as I have so far this year when I could have been slugging along, unmotivated. Nothing going on in my life, though - it's kind of the perfect time to work on something like this.
So I started rewriting a week ago, and this is what my nano bar would look like:
11500 / 50000 words. 23% done!
It's more important to have the 7 chapters than to have a certain amount of words, and I definitely won't have 50k by doing 7 chapters, but I'll keep up with this just as some indicator of the amount of work getting done. Exciting!
The thing I worry about, though, is Script Frenzy. I haven't worked on Nosferatu in Love for a really long time, even though it was supposed to be this new thing that I got far with, and... I don't know how I'm going to plan for that on top of rewriting this. At all costs, I'm doing SF, but it'll be a challenge planning for that, even if I set HT down completely for April. ...Which means I won't get to polishing/reorganizing these new chapters until May? And then this process starts all over for the second arc in the story, (chapters 14-28). The third arc is sorta 29-39, when she's spellbound by him -- luckily that will be less work to fix. And then we have the final one, 40-52, the downfall of their relationship. I'm not planning a huge change for those, but they will need editing for smoother prose. Everything will.
...Oy... And in May and beyond? What will I get done, for a while? It'll be so hot and miserable. Maybe that's why I'm pushing myself so early. Summer usually destroys my spirit. lol
Ciao, mis amigas,
-J
None of it is very polished, I'm just getting out what I plotted ASAP and fleshing it out and reorganizing afterward, so this month has been a lot like NaNoWrimo. It makes me happy to have gotten as much done as I have so far this year when I could have been slugging along, unmotivated. Nothing going on in my life, though - it's kind of the perfect time to work on something like this.
So I started rewriting a week ago, and this is what my nano bar would look like:
It's more important to have the 7 chapters than to have a certain amount of words, and I definitely won't have 50k by doing 7 chapters, but I'll keep up with this just as some indicator of the amount of work getting done. Exciting!
The thing I worry about, though, is Script Frenzy. I haven't worked on Nosferatu in Love for a really long time, even though it was supposed to be this new thing that I got far with, and... I don't know how I'm going to plan for that on top of rewriting this. At all costs, I'm doing SF, but it'll be a challenge planning for that, even if I set HT down completely for April. ...Which means I won't get to polishing/reorganizing these new chapters until May? And then this process starts all over for the second arc in the story, (chapters 14-28). The third arc is sorta 29-39, when she's spellbound by him -- luckily that will be less work to fix. And then we have the final one, 40-52, the downfall of their relationship. I'm not planning a huge change for those, but they will need editing for smoother prose. Everything will.
...Oy... And in May and beyond? What will I get done, for a while? It'll be so hot and miserable. Maybe that's why I'm pushing myself so early. Summer usually destroys my spirit. lol
Ciao, mis amigas,
-J
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