WC: 613 words.
An odd, quirky thing that helps me with my word count each day is vowing to not drink or even touch a caffeinated beverage (I’m addicted, you see. I have to have a soda at some point every single day) until I’ve reached 250 words.
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The first scene I was writing ended at exactly 251 words. It was tempting to stop there, but I didn’t feel accomplished. I moved on to the next scene to get Cirellio and Cauinn out of Javo and into the next part of the story, bringing me to 613.
Packsister’s been pep-talking (pestering? lol) RG and I to push our daily word counts higher. I guess I’ll try for more, but the main goal of this exercise is to train ourselves to add to our tomes every day—or at least more often.
200-1000 words every two weeks just wasn’t cutting it for me. Still, a little friendly competition can’t hurt. Though I must admit I’m at a slight disadvantage by posting my word count first each day ;)
Tomorrow will be the first official tally of our progress. RG Sanders made a nice graphic for it. (Thanks again!)
Oh yes, and…
The forums. If you’d like to, come on in and register and discuss things. There’s two categories: General Chat and a Testing Zone. There’s only one discussion up: What categories should we have? I’ve a few in mind myself but would like to hear your opinions as well.
::will look at said forums after he has, what’s that thing… oh yeah, written::
Comment by RG Sanders — March 4, 2009 @ 3:49 pm
However I’ve a free day tomorrow, so my word count will definitely be over 1000. Hehe. Just wanted to say it, :) You’re doing very well yourself, though!
Comment by packsister — March 4, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
Comment by Nick Enlowe — March 4, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
Comment by packsister — March 4, 2009 @ 4:09 pm
(I was just trying to be silly with the ‘who posts first’ thing.)
Comment by Nick Enlowe — March 4, 2009 @ 4:10 pm
Comment by packsister — March 4, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
… I knew I forgot something in my About the Author page.
Comment by Nick Enlowe — March 4, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
Comment by packsister — March 4, 2009 @ 4:18 pm
The devil is in the details: what the characters say, what exactly gets done in a given scene, what is and isn’t described, and when some information needs to be doled out in order for everything coming to make sense. As a result, I’m being very careful going forward with each scene.
Comment by Nick Enlowe — March 4, 2009 @ 5:29 pm