Skywatch update!
May. 10th, 2010 02:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anthimeriaI've been whining a lot about Skywatch lately, so I figured I should share my happiness!
For all the trials and tribulations this books is putting me through, it's still a ton of fun to write. I just had a good writing day. Sanya usurped a big section, but she let me play with Eshe's reaction to her, which let me do some interesting things with Eshe's character (Eshe's the POV character; Sanya and a boy named Julien are her best friends).
Since I've picked it back up I've had a really hard time being consistent with the number of words I write per day (which is odd! When I wrote The Novel's rd, hitting 1,500 words a day at least four days a week wasn't hard at all), but I think I'm generally writing good stuff. I can usually sort of tell what's going to need work in the drafting process, but that's what editing is for. I'm keeping notes.
It looks like Draft I/the rough draft is only going to be 35-40k words long. Yesterday I thought for sure only 35k, but then I wrote 1,500 words today and am less sure. I'm at 29k words and the beginning of act three (I generally write my outlines in the three-act structure, familiar to Western storytellers mostly though film, but I like it and it works for me), and since it's act three of The Novel that slipped out of my control, I'm don't think I should even try to predict how writing act three of Skywatch will go.
I would be really surprised if I had to write an entirely new ending this time, though. It being a mystery, and all.
(See how I can't help predicting anyway? It's a thing! I think about my writing all the time, I can't help it.)
In other awesome news, I am going to attend WisCon this year! WisCon, for those who don't know, is a feminist science fiction/fantasy literature convention in Madison, Wisconsin. I've never been, but everything I've heard is fantastic.
WisCon also has a Writer's Workshop, which sped my little workshopper's heart. I haven't participated in a proper workshop since I graduated, so I'm looking forward to it--and all my fellow group members are spec fic novelists, which is something I never had at Knox.
Exciting things afoot!
(PS: had to return Leviathan to the library, so a thorough rec will have to wait till I can check it out again. But I did enjoy it!)
For all the trials and tribulations this books is putting me through, it's still a ton of fun to write. I just had a good writing day. Sanya usurped a big section, but she let me play with Eshe's reaction to her, which let me do some interesting things with Eshe's character (Eshe's the POV character; Sanya and a boy named Julien are her best friends).
Since I've picked it back up I've had a really hard time being consistent with the number of words I write per day (which is odd! When I wrote The Novel's rd, hitting 1,500 words a day at least four days a week wasn't hard at all), but I think I'm generally writing good stuff. I can usually sort of tell what's going to need work in the drafting process, but that's what editing is for. I'm keeping notes.
It looks like Draft I/the rough draft is only going to be 35-40k words long. Yesterday I thought for sure only 35k, but then I wrote 1,500 words today and am less sure. I'm at 29k words and the beginning of act three (I generally write my outlines in the three-act structure, familiar to Western storytellers mostly though film, but I like it and it works for me), and since it's act three of The Novel that slipped out of my control, I'm don't think I should even try to predict how writing act three of Skywatch will go.
I would be really surprised if I had to write an entirely new ending this time, though. It being a mystery, and all.
(See how I can't help predicting anyway? It's a thing! I think about my writing all the time, I can't help it.)
In other awesome news, I am going to attend WisCon this year! WisCon, for those who don't know, is a feminist science fiction/fantasy literature convention in Madison, Wisconsin. I've never been, but everything I've heard is fantastic.
WisCon also has a Writer's Workshop, which sped my little workshopper's heart. I haven't participated in a proper workshop since I graduated, so I'm looking forward to it--and all my fellow group members are spec fic novelists, which is something I never had at Knox.
Exciting things afoot!
(PS: had to return Leviathan to the library, so a thorough rec will have to wait till I can check it out again. But I did enjoy it!)