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Okay, so that's chapter ten finished. This is one I hadn't done any work on in the Easter weekend push, so the only thing I knew is that our protagonist would be visited by a tv crew as he worked on his memoirs. I also knew it was the last chapter before he moved to a different state of his life so I need him to be shaken up. I did a bit of him thinking back, then twigged what would shake him up, and bridged the two sequences today. As always I'm amazed by how often when I'm writing it's uncovering a pattern that's already there.
I've done today's word quota, but I want more, so onto chapter 11. There is already 2000 words of this written, from Easter (see 11pm), leaving little over a thousand to deal with the actual meat (actually I should say meet) of this chapter's job. I think this is going to end up longer than I anticipated:
Let's remove the wordage for chapters 11-24:
So, assuming I write at a similar length, the manuscript will be 104600 words long, give or take. 573 words a day to hit 100,000 by year's end - slightly more (60 ish) to hit the larger target, but I suspect I'll do some tighter writing just to get everything down.
Edit: I didn't get to chapter 11 today, having gone to a depressing meeting about research funding - depressing because it sounds as always easier to come with an idea for research funding than get research funding for an idea. I did however write the introduction for the fabled New Myths? special issue of Extrapolation. My output is 3000 words for the ... 24 hour period.
After all, tomorrow is justanother the same day.
I've done today's word quota, but I want more, so onto chapter 11. There is already 2000 words of this written, from Easter (see 11pm), leaving little over a thousand to deal with the actual meat (actually I should say meet) of this chapter's job. I think this is going to end up longer than I anticipated:
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57,031 / 100,000 (57.0%) |
Let's remove the wordage for chapters 11-24:
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43,581 / 100,000 (43.6%) |
So, assuming I write at a similar length, the manuscript will be 104600 words long, give or take. 573 words a day to hit 100,000 by year's end - slightly more (60 ish) to hit the larger target, but I suspect I'll do some tighter writing just to get everything down.
Edit: I didn't get to chapter 11 today, having gone to a depressing meeting about research funding - depressing because it sounds as always easier to come with an idea for research funding than get research funding for an idea. I did however write the introduction for the fabled New Myths? special issue of Extrapolation. My output is 3000 words for the ... 24 hour period.
After all, tomorrow is just
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