| Renee's Progress |
1,717 words today. Phew! I made up my words for the last two days including meeting my 1,000 word goal for today. Karen kicked serious word-heiny again today--visit her LJ here to read about her progress. Chandra is also doing well, although I don't know whether or not she hit her goal today. She has a nifty writing accessory, though, which you can read about here. I haven't heard from Jon today so I have no idea how he's doing.
I've realized that for the most part, I am not writing in rough draft form. I tend to edit as I go, which makes for a better first draft but also a slower first draft. I wish I could tell how many words I write then replace with other words. I bet I've actually been doubling my word count goals! ;) Part of me wishes I could turn off the internal editor so I can just push forward with getting the story out on paper (so to speak) but part of me is just so darned pleased with the quality of what I'm writing that I feel like I can't complain. *shrugs*
The space bar on my keyboard is going. And my laptop weighs 7.5 lbs., which has had me whining about how heavy it is for months now. I finally decided it was time for a new one since it's essentially taking the place of my husband and all my friends this month. Tonight I took a break at the 750 word mark and Ben and I went to look at a Mac Book. It only weighs 5 lbs.! Whoo-hoo! I'm very excited. He's ordering it for me online and I should have it by mid-week. Hopefully my space bar will hold out that long. I have a Dell laptop right now and have never used a Mac before so there will certainly be an adjustment period, but I'm looking forward to it.
One last note before I go. You may notice that despite my rockin' word count today, my overall word count for The Gatherer has actually gone *down*. This is because there are multiple places to view word count in Liquid Storybinder, the fabulous FABULOUS program I write in, and the one I had been previously using was incorporating the word counts of the notes I had in addition to the chapters I was writing. So I've found the real word count number now, which is just looking at the counts from the individual chapters, not the additional notes and references I've got going in the various documents.
Ok, I'm off to get some sleep. Tomorrow I have a house errand to do and then I'm hoping to write 1500-2000 words.
Sweet dreams everyone...
2 comments:
Wow!! Renee, you kicked major butt yourself, yesterday! Sorry I didn't comment on this at the time (darn that pesky time difference - I always go to bed thinking, I wonder how Renee and Co. are doing?). I'm writing this comment at 10am Sunday morning.
I think you're fine writing in your own way - the way you feel most comfortable - with the editing as you go. I'm definitely a natural edit-as-you-go-girl, too, but am making a HUGE effort to stop that this time. I am still doing a bit of tweaking, here and there, but not as much as usual.
Seriously, this is a great forward step. You're on target and have the weekend to do a bit more extra work if you can manage it. :)
yea for the macbook! You are going to love it. Looks like you're off to a great start. I can't wait to read all this stuff you write, it's going to be fabulous to go to the book store and say "I know her!"
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