vg_ford | Entries tagged with insanity

Well, I finished the plotting form for Seasons. Now I need to get cracking on the outline, as in right now (as soon as I finish this entry, in fact), because I have just realized that I have 10 weeks to write:

- 1 100k book (Seasons)
- 1 80k rough draft (Treaty)
- 1 8k nonfiction chapter (on magical beasts)
- 1 8-12k short story (Sacrifice)

To make the 180k in 9 weeks (since this week is outlines and stuff), I'll need to do 3k a day on the books. I'd like to finish up the chapter early (just have to do some research, which isn't bad), and the short should only take me a week or so. So if you see me online, tell me to write! :)

I'll put up the plotting form in a later post - if you have questions about it, go ask

domynoe, as she's the genius behind it. I'll also have copies of the form at Writer's Group this weekend.

Edit to add: Okay, got 50+ scenes down. Tomorrow, during work, I'll put them in the right order and start outlining. Whee!

Current Mood: it hasn't sunk in yet
Current Location: home office
Current Music: Icicle by Tori Amos

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Starting word count is 50220. Goal: Finish the damn book.

Will update as I go tonight.

First word count:

Only 776 words so far, but I've booked a conference in May. :p Yeah, I know, I know.

Current Mood: determined
Current Location: home
Current Music: random mix

Tags:

goals,
insanity

Whew! I got a lot of words done!

Not as many as I wanted, of course, but a lot, nonetheless. Here's all the gory details:

Belladonna Dreams

Word Goal for the day: 750 - made 1586

Starting line: “Good question. And Claire doesn’t want me anywhere near it.” I took a sip of soda. “She was very clear about that.”

Ending line: A nurse hurried by me, and it was almost as if I could see the blood rushing through her skin, which got less transparent the farther she went.

Darling: No birds chirped, and even in the midst of a bright, warm late autumn afternoon, cold shadows lay heavy over the entire clearing. Dark trees hunched over pieces of broken wall, glowering natural gargoyles. I had wondered, briefly, whether it had been this depressing when it was operational.

Then I had Changed, and so had the entire world.

38,369 / 100,000
(38.4%)

Broken Wings - Donovan's character sheet finished.

Race the Ninja! (due 1/22/07)

10,718 / 12,000
(89.3%)

Race mimerki! (due 2/10/07)

2,576 / 20,000
(12.9%)

novel_in_90 (due 4/6/07)

12,182 / 67,500
(18.0%)

And just because, here's January's total:

17,888 / 50,000
(35.8%)

And the YTD total:

17,888 / 600,000
(3.0%)

Insanity beckons, and off I go!

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: heading to bed
Current Music: The Highwayman - Loreena McKinnett

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I'm now involved in three word challenges: a race against

irishninja for 12,00 words by January 22nd; one against

mimerki for 20,000+ by February 10th; and, of course, I'm involved in

novel_in_90. So I'll still be posting darlings and things like that, but I'll also be posting word counters for each of them.

Today, my to-do list looks like this:
- write up my bid for Yule 2007 (yes, I want to get this done today so I can have

dorio look at it before I submit it and forget something important)
- write at least 1k on Dreams at 1500 and still going
- write up Donovan's character sheet for Wings
- give up and start writing plot notes for the yet unnamed Sleeping Beauty plot bunny that refuses to die
~~- go to Eragon with the hubby and Donna (and Chinese food first! Yum!)~~
- design a Stonemarche bookmark for hubby for Birka
- crit the latest stuff I got from adr_forte

Here are my current word counters:

Race the Ninja! (due date Jan. 22)

8,142 / 12,000
(67.8%)

Race

mimerki! (we need a snappy title for this one too) (due by Feb. 10th)

0 / 20,000
(0.0%)

novel_in_90 (due April 6th)

10,596 / 67,500
(15.7%)

Dude, I'd better get busy!!!

ETA #1: Well, Eragon was pretty, and several of my fav actors (Rachel Weisz and Jeremy Irons) were in it, so I liked it. It was too fast, though. I have to read the book now. And back to writing!

Current Mood: crazy
Current Location: writing!
Current Music: something weird

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A Light Through the Darkness

Of course I hit like a girl. Now take it like a man.

I am soo doomed.

The insanity that is my goal this weekend

Word counts for tonight

So I am officially insane.

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