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Easter Monday turned into one of those days again. I was at the keyboard for majority of the day, but the typing didn't seem to flow. I was aware of what was going to happen to the characters, but I didn't seem to be able to describe it. That's odd, because I thought that the closer I got to the modern day (I'm somewhere around 1998), the easier it would get. Perhaps I just wrote out on Friday. In the end I was just too easily distracted by other stuff, like Photoshop.
So grand total for the weekend:
26180, way below the target.
The Way Forward
Now, I'm not seeing this as a failure, even though I'm well below the 60,000 I was hoping for (but had no idea if it were achievable). It is well short of that, of course. But I want to get back to 500 words a day, and this is the best part of two month's work. Of course, given the non-chronological structure of the whole, it's now difficult to know whether I should work chronologically on the chapters in rotation - continuing the second arc chapter by chapter or just along the whole second arc - or change to writing it in the order it's intended to be read in. I don't want anyone to read it out of order.
It is a quarter of the novel, and whilst I'm sure that almost all of it will get rewritten, it's a sizeable chunk of prose.
Okay, perhaps the way forward is to assign a week to each chapter and see what I have, then revise the whole up to the 100,000 word mark.
I'm not sure that I wouldn't do something like this again, but I think I would have allowed myself more planning time. I was amazed by how much I knew about the characters - especially twenty to fifty years ago - but the 1990s turned out to be somewhat of a blank.
So grand total for the weekend:
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26,180 / 100,000 (26.2%) |
26180, way below the target.
The Way Forward
Now, I'm not seeing this as a failure, even though I'm well below the 60,000 I was hoping for (but had no idea if it were achievable). It is well short of that, of course. But I want to get back to 500 words a day, and this is the best part of two month's work. Of course, given the non-chronological structure of the whole, it's now difficult to know whether I should work chronologically on the chapters in rotation - continuing the second arc chapter by chapter or just along the whole second arc - or change to writing it in the order it's intended to be read in. I don't want anyone to read it out of order.
It is a quarter of the novel, and whilst I'm sure that almost all of it will get rewritten, it's a sizeable chunk of prose.
Okay, perhaps the way forward is to assign a week to each chapter and see what I have, then revise the whole up to the 100,000 word mark.
I'm not sure that I wouldn't do something like this again, but I think I would have allowed myself more planning time. I was amazed by how much I knew about the characters - especially twenty to fifty years ago - but the 1990s turned out to be somewhat of a blank.
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