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Progress of a sort
Nov. 19th, 2011 10:52 pmI've been deleting, rewriting, and writing new scenes for this latest draft of Skywatch, and unfortunately my mass-delete (which brought me from dvii's 54k words to dviii's beginning stat of 47k words) did not provide a quite adequate enough cushion: I'm back up over 50k. Over 51k, actually.
( Wordcount blithering )
All bitching about my wordcount aside, I did add a fantastic new scene that I didn't even plan before hand. It was an instance where my notes said I needed Eshe to get a glimpse of the antagonist to up the tension, and then suddenly I kept writing and she was following and there was an extra thousand-word scene of awesome where I hadn't planned to put one. Nevertheless, scene of awesome tops nit-picky wordcount goals, so I didn't stop myself from writing it. And I am very glad I did it.
Just, y'know. I'm a little neurotic about wordcount, it's how I gauge my writing. Besides, if I get to not be teased about wordcount obsession any month of the year, November is it. Good luck to anyone tackling NaNoWriMo!
( Wordcount blithering )
All bitching about my wordcount aside, I did add a fantastic new scene that I didn't even plan before hand. It was an instance where my notes said I needed Eshe to get a glimpse of the antagonist to up the tension, and then suddenly I kept writing and she was following and there was an extra thousand-word scene of awesome where I hadn't planned to put one. Nevertheless, scene of awesome tops nit-picky wordcount goals, so I didn't stop myself from writing it. And I am very glad I did it.
Just, y'know. I'm a little neurotic about wordcount, it's how I gauge my writing. Besides, if I get to not be teased about wordcount obsession any month of the year, November is it. Good luck to anyone tackling NaNoWriMo!