The (quarter) million word march
The other day I calculated that I've written 222, 000 words this year--by far my most productive year ever. Yay! These are all first-draft words, not revisions, although I do count significant additions to later drafts (such as the three poker scenes added to Bad Company in the second draft).The breakdown:
Voice of Crow: 113K
Bad Company: the final 68K (begun in 2005)
Angel's Gambit Book One: the final 26K (begun in '03, continued in '04)
"The Wild's Call": 15K
Which leaves 28K to hit the quarter-million word mark by the end of the year. This normally wouldn't be a problem (I usually about 2K/day when I'm in full first-draft mode), except that I'll have revisions to Voice of Crow (which don't count toward the total, remember, unless I add scenes) and will probably only include one chapter in my Wings of Crow proposal.
But I will make the 250K mark, even if it means cranking out the first 100 pages of Wings of Crow or Angel's Gambit Book Two in the last week of December.
It's good to have goals, however random. Anyone else have end-of-the-year goals or unfinished New Year's 2006 resolutions?
Labels: craft, vampire series, Voice of Crow, Wings of Crow, YA series
8 Comments:
-Catie
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CE Murphy at 11/29/2006 10:43 AM
Cecilia
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Anonymous at 11/29/2006 3:51 PM
P.S. This is Kathy but I'm posting under my mom's stuff because I had to temporarily take my computer apart. We have people coming in tomorrow to install new windows and a new patio door so I had to move my computer out of the way. My mom has a portable laptop.:-)
Posted by:
LindaJ at 11/29/2006 9:32 PM
I even put something about your books in my new blog (not that anyone reads it yet since it's new, but it's the thought that counts right?!?) check it out sometime..
http://dragonsjoye1.blogspot.com/
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Anonymous at 11/30/2006 9:07 AM
Catie's too modest to say it, but she's working on 400K. She's a machine!! A cute, funny machine that/who writes great books.
Oh, and I discovered that for me, in MS Word, 27K is more like 135 pages. Gulp. I am so screwed.
Cecilia, you could start with "All work and no play makes Jill a dull girl." Hmm, maybe that's what I'll do.
Kathy, good luck with the new windows and door. Hopefully they'll keep out the cold winter air.
Jess, thanks! I'm sure your friends already know you're nuts--lol. And I'll add your blog to my roll and be sure to stop by often to keep up with you.
Posted by:
Jeri at 12/04/2006 9:10 AM
-Catie
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CE Murphy at 12/08/2006 9:20 AM
No panic: I'll get it all done in the last two weeks of December. I've got a proposal due December 15 (which should be worth 5-7K), then it's bugger all the promo, blogging, appearances, etc. Time to turn back into an actual writer again.
For two glorious weeks I'll write pieces of anything, whatever I feel like. Roughly 10 pages a day if I take off Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Posted by:
Jeri at 12/08/2006 10:17 AM
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Jeri at 12/08/2006 10:17 AM
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