Hello. There's only a couple more days of the Camp left! Well, two days ago, I surpassed the 50K goal. Hurrah. For the first time, I became a rebel :) After hitting a writer's block in part 2, I started a short story called Starless Night (based on a side plot in P1) as well as returning to Part 1. I mainly wrote SN to get over my writer's block for that day. So far this month, I've written 54499 words.
Send Me P1: Page 338 with 127 157 words (including Jano/Febru work). I wrote 12 591 words just this month.
Send Me P2: Page 101 with 39 385 words.
Starless Night: 2540 words
So since the beginning of the year, SM has 439 pages and 166 542 words. It's my longest novel so far, and not even half way finished :)
For the Camp Nano in July, I most likely will still be working on this book! Nothing is better than falling in love with your own book, really :) I've come to love all my characters quite a bit, and I enjoy inserting connections that the reader will have to make throughout concerning unnamed characters and plots. The next time I update, I will probably be saying my final April word count. My goal is 60K by the end of the month, but we'll see. This week will probably be busy, and I'm finishing up an arc and will have to think of a new one to continue Part 1 (or get over my writer's block in Part 2).
Monday, April 29, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
April 14, 2013 Update
Oh goodness... it's been a looong time since last update! I haven't really been blogging in either of my blogs, really. Let's see...
I haven't written TBF for at least six+ months, but it's on chapter 7, page 137. So... looking back at the August 18, 2012 Updates post, it's only 12 pages more since then, haha! Yeah.. haven't written much in that book. 50, 906 words
I suppose the main reason why I haven't written much in TBF was because I took a break from it to write a spin-off story, called TTE (To the East) centering around J and R's travels past the mountains. It's at chapter 3, 68 pages, 23, 963 words. Just as a reminder, I'm using 1.5 spacing in Microsoft Word with 1" margins all around. It's somewhat nearing the end... maybe another couple of chapters. Similar to TBF, I haven't touched it in 6+ months.
I believe sometime in the 8 month gap, I retouched ROI.. Anyway, it's completed with nine chapters, 196 pages, 70, 344 words. Including the appendix, it's 221 pages and 79, 051 words. So yeah. My only completed baby, haha! I still feel like editing it a few more times, though. For some reason, every time I read it, I feel as if there isn't enough something in it, not enough to pull readers into the characters and plot completely. I want to characterize my peeps a little more, add some more inner dialogue, etc etc.
What about RoPT? I'm going to change it's name to PT sooner or later. Anyway, no changes in status whatsoever. Still need to transfer all the data. Good thing I keep all my notebooks in one place so I still have the data somewhere... unless the house burns down, of course.
WOC, with 304 pages, still needs some major edits. I haven't touched it in a long time as well (If you're wondering what I've been doing.. I'm getting there in a moment!) I'm rather proud of it, actually, as I feel it has quite a bit of character development just through events and dialogue. But as I mentioned some post ago, I was going through and having the book from less peoples' perspective to have a better flow and whatnot.
SO! Now I'm sure you've been wondering what in the world I've been doing for the past 8 months, right? I would too! Well, I've actually done more writing in these past few months than I have in a while, thankfully. I've actually been writing most of the time, so don't worry about me being writing deprived!
In September/October, I'm sure I was working on TTE or something like that.
Last November, my sister did Nanowrimo and excelled in it, so this year she encouraged me to do it with her. And so I did. basically, Nanowrimo, aka National Novel Writing Month, is when people from all over the world try to write 50, 000 words in just one month. The general rule is that you can't continue writing something that you haven't written before. So, after some thought, I decided to write a completely different genre from my usual ROI, RoPT, WOC, TBF, TTE genre and try something new :) I would probably define it as fiction mecha. I called it Behind the Mask. I completed Nanowrimo with 52, 279 words and ~145 pages. I haven't created a synopsis of it, I just realized, so I probably should do that sooner or later. When I come up with it, I'll post it.
In December, I didn't write much since I was busy with this and that. It was a busy month! BtM has about 55, 000 words now, so I guess I wrote a little then, haha! Not sure what else I did. Around the middle of the month, my sister, a friend, and I decided to do an unofficial Janowrimo, so I began to plan for it. We decided to begin on January 5 and end on Feb 5 because my sis and I were going to be out of state until then.
Being a horrible planner, I didn't start any major planning until January 4 at 10:30pm. At that time, we were in the car, driving the last of the 10 hours home. My sis has a tradition of writing her first word of Nanowrimo at the strike of midnight, so I decided to join in the tradition and began crazily planning away. And to the great surprise of myself, a rather large plot formed in my head, and I typed away the very very short outline and ideas on my lovely iPod, the same one I used to write the first 150 pages of WOC back in the days :D And so at 12 sharp, I wrote my first word and section of the book, Send Me. Janowrimo was a huge success for myself, actually. I finished Janowrimo on the 31st so I could do Februwrimo the following month. I took a break on the 31st to plan a little bit. So on January 30 (27 days later), I had 9 chapters, 76, 661 words and 208 pages. Whoo. I actually have a synopsis of sorts for it... it's kinda like the back cover of the book that kind of tells you what happens but not really, haha. Oh yeah, so SM is a self-dubbed fantasy/multi-dimentional fictional epic. It's another genre I haven't touched before but enjoy writing!
Synopsis of SM: The royal siblings, the students, the book worms, the orphans, and the street kids. Although they never realized it, they were bred for a single reason: vengeance. Two by two, they were sent to fulfill a quest, a quest that could claim their life if they dropped their guard. Traveling from world to world, the ten teenagers searched for clues to find their destination... only to discover they've been mislead from the very beginning.
Wow, intriguing huh? Haha just kidding.
Anyway, for February, I continued off from where I stopped in Janowrimo (I know, I was kind of a rebel). I wasn't as successful because 1. the month was a lot busier than I thought it would be 2. I hit major writing blocks every few days, which is never good when I have to write 1666 words a day to maintain the 50, 000 word goal. Eventually, I just stopped writing at the end of the month, haha! I finished with 35, 9743 words. Combined with Janowrimo, SM is at chapter 13, with 306 pages and 114, 550 words.
For March, I took a break from writing since April would be the nanowrimo dubbed "Camp NanoWriMo." It's the first camp in April the Nano people have created, so my sister and I decided to do that. So... I'm not a great outliner. At all. And so my outline was rather minuscule by the end of the month. Even though I said I wouldn't write at all during the month so I could focus on April's writing month, I broke the self-promise. I wrote just a little in SM. Honestly, it was to calm my mind and re-remember my characters. I was actually becoming off-edge around that time, and writing really calmed my mind. I decided not to torture myself from staying away from writing completely, haha.
And so, it's April right now. SM has a large plot. It has many little plots but a major plot that's only been hinted at and mentioned but not fully explored yet. Anyway, during Jan and Feb, I was working on Part 1. Because I was hitting writer's block, I decided to start Part 2, which is set at the same time but in another place. As of now, I'm kind of on top of things. I doubt I'll be able to beat my Jano high score... but we'll see :) Right now, I'm at the end of chapter four, with 74 pages and 28, 875 words. According to the 50, 000 word trend-line, I should have 23, 333 words by the end of the day (I haven't written anything today yet), so I'm only slightly ahead. It was around this time in January that I wrote 23,000 words in just to days.. it was a weekend, but thinking back, that's a LOT to me.
So yeah! That's what's going on over here. All the Wrimos have definitely upped my writing in the past few months. I've been able to try out some new genres, which was exciting. I believe I will be working on SM for quite some while at the rate it's going. I'm not even close to being half way done, really. I will try to update more, alright? I know I say that a lot but don't really, but hopefully I'll be a little more committed in the future ^_^
I haven't written TBF for at least six+ months, but it's on chapter 7, page 137. So... looking back at the August 18, 2012 Updates post, it's only 12 pages more since then, haha! Yeah.. haven't written much in that book. 50, 906 words
I suppose the main reason why I haven't written much in TBF was because I took a break from it to write a spin-off story, called TTE (To the East) centering around J and R's travels past the mountains. It's at chapter 3, 68 pages, 23, 963 words. Just as a reminder, I'm using 1.5 spacing in Microsoft Word with 1" margins all around. It's somewhat nearing the end... maybe another couple of chapters. Similar to TBF, I haven't touched it in 6+ months.
I believe sometime in the 8 month gap, I retouched ROI.. Anyway, it's completed with nine chapters, 196 pages, 70, 344 words. Including the appendix, it's 221 pages and 79, 051 words. So yeah. My only completed baby, haha! I still feel like editing it a few more times, though. For some reason, every time I read it, I feel as if there isn't enough something in it, not enough to pull readers into the characters and plot completely. I want to characterize my peeps a little more, add some more inner dialogue, etc etc.
What about RoPT? I'm going to change it's name to PT sooner or later. Anyway, no changes in status whatsoever. Still need to transfer all the data. Good thing I keep all my notebooks in one place so I still have the data somewhere... unless the house burns down, of course.
WOC, with 304 pages, still needs some major edits. I haven't touched it in a long time as well (If you're wondering what I've been doing.. I'm getting there in a moment!) I'm rather proud of it, actually, as I feel it has quite a bit of character development just through events and dialogue. But as I mentioned some post ago, I was going through and having the book from less peoples' perspective to have a better flow and whatnot.
SO! Now I'm sure you've been wondering what in the world I've been doing for the past 8 months, right? I would too! Well, I've actually done more writing in these past few months than I have in a while, thankfully. I've actually been writing most of the time, so don't worry about me being writing deprived!
In September/October, I'm sure I was working on TTE or something like that.
Last November, my sister did Nanowrimo and excelled in it, so this year she encouraged me to do it with her. And so I did. basically, Nanowrimo, aka National Novel Writing Month, is when people from all over the world try to write 50, 000 words in just one month. The general rule is that you can't continue writing something that you haven't written before. So, after some thought, I decided to write a completely different genre from my usual ROI, RoPT, WOC, TBF, TTE genre and try something new :) I would probably define it as fiction mecha. I called it Behind the Mask. I completed Nanowrimo with 52, 279 words and ~145 pages. I haven't created a synopsis of it, I just realized, so I probably should do that sooner or later. When I come up with it, I'll post it.
In December, I didn't write much since I was busy with this and that. It was a busy month! BtM has about 55, 000 words now, so I guess I wrote a little then, haha! Not sure what else I did. Around the middle of the month, my sister, a friend, and I decided to do an unofficial Janowrimo, so I began to plan for it. We decided to begin on January 5 and end on Feb 5 because my sis and I were going to be out of state until then.
Being a horrible planner, I didn't start any major planning until January 4 at 10:30pm. At that time, we were in the car, driving the last of the 10 hours home. My sis has a tradition of writing her first word of Nanowrimo at the strike of midnight, so I decided to join in the tradition and began crazily planning away. And to the great surprise of myself, a rather large plot formed in my head, and I typed away the very very short outline and ideas on my lovely iPod, the same one I used to write the first 150 pages of WOC back in the days :D And so at 12 sharp, I wrote my first word and section of the book, Send Me. Janowrimo was a huge success for myself, actually. I finished Janowrimo on the 31st so I could do Februwrimo the following month. I took a break on the 31st to plan a little bit. So on January 30 (27 days later), I had 9 chapters, 76, 661 words and 208 pages. Whoo. I actually have a synopsis of sorts for it... it's kinda like the back cover of the book that kind of tells you what happens but not really, haha. Oh yeah, so SM is a self-dubbed fantasy/multi-dimentional fictional epic. It's another genre I haven't touched before but enjoy writing!
Synopsis of SM: The royal siblings, the students, the book worms, the orphans, and the street kids. Although they never realized it, they were bred for a single reason: vengeance. Two by two, they were sent to fulfill a quest, a quest that could claim their life if they dropped their guard. Traveling from world to world, the ten teenagers searched for clues to find their destination... only to discover they've been mislead from the very beginning.
Wow, intriguing huh? Haha just kidding.
Anyway, for February, I continued off from where I stopped in Janowrimo (I know, I was kind of a rebel). I wasn't as successful because 1. the month was a lot busier than I thought it would be 2. I hit major writing blocks every few days, which is never good when I have to write 1666 words a day to maintain the 50, 000 word goal. Eventually, I just stopped writing at the end of the month, haha! I finished with 35, 9743 words. Combined with Janowrimo, SM is at chapter 13, with 306 pages and 114, 550 words.
For March, I took a break from writing since April would be the nanowrimo dubbed "Camp NanoWriMo." It's the first camp in April the Nano people have created, so my sister and I decided to do that. So... I'm not a great outliner. At all. And so my outline was rather minuscule by the end of the month. Even though I said I wouldn't write at all during the month so I could focus on April's writing month, I broke the self-promise. I wrote just a little in SM. Honestly, it was to calm my mind and re-remember my characters. I was actually becoming off-edge around that time, and writing really calmed my mind. I decided not to torture myself from staying away from writing completely, haha.
And so, it's April right now. SM has a large plot. It has many little plots but a major plot that's only been hinted at and mentioned but not fully explored yet. Anyway, during Jan and Feb, I was working on Part 1. Because I was hitting writer's block, I decided to start Part 2, which is set at the same time but in another place. As of now, I'm kind of on top of things. I doubt I'll be able to beat my Jano high score... but we'll see :) Right now, I'm at the end of chapter four, with 74 pages and 28, 875 words. According to the 50, 000 word trend-line, I should have 23, 333 words by the end of the day (I haven't written anything today yet), so I'm only slightly ahead. It was around this time in January that I wrote 23,000 words in just to days.. it was a weekend, but thinking back, that's a LOT to me.
So yeah! That's what's going on over here. All the Wrimos have definitely upped my writing in the past few months. I've been able to try out some new genres, which was exciting. I believe I will be working on SM for quite some while at the rate it's going. I'm not even close to being half way done, really. I will try to update more, alright? I know I say that a lot but don't really, but hopefully I'll be a little more committed in the future ^_^
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