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anthimeria) wrote2011-05-16 12:44 am
anthimeria) wrote2011-05-16 12:44 am
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Skywatch div (draft four, not an abbreviation of divination. I like Roman numerals, okay?)
Word count when I started this afternoon: 47,163
Word count when I finished just now: 47, 897
Scenes deleted: 3
Scenes added: . . . I'm not actually sure. Several? More than 3.
Total new words written today: ~1300
The word count is inching ever so slowly closer to 50k, which was my original word count goal for this book. When I finished the bloody rough at ~44.5k, I was convinced the damn thing was never going to get there. Now I'm thinking it'll get pretty damn close.
Also, if anyone can think of a suitably steampunk version of the word "helicopter" that doesn't make ears accustomed to American English bleed, I will love you forever and put your name in the acknowledgments. Apparently helicopter twigs as too modern (every reader I've had thus far has commented on it). Language-of-origin options include: English, French, Dutch, Cantonese, Hindi, Arabic, Swahili, Greek and, of course, Latin.
Word count when I finished just now: 47, 897
Scenes deleted: 3
Scenes added: . . . I'm not actually sure. Several? More than 3.
Total new words written today: ~1300
The word count is inching ever so slowly closer to 50k, which was my original word count goal for this book. When I finished the bloody rough at ~44.5k, I was convinced the damn thing was never going to get there. Now I'm thinking it'll get pretty damn close.
Also, if anyone can think of a suitably steampunk version of the word "helicopter" that doesn't make ears accustomed to American English bleed, I will love you forever and put your name in the acknowledgments. Apparently helicopter twigs as too modern (every reader I've had thus far has commented on it). Language-of-origin options include: English, French, Dutch, Cantonese, Hindi, Arabic, Swahili, Greek and, of course, Latin.
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