When She Calls...at 48hrs on the marathon
Jul. 17th, 2006 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marfiskWell, it's been an interesting couple of days. This was a marathon weekend and because of how the timing worked out I realized a 15k 48hrs was within reach for the first time this year. Yep. I went for it. Finished with 9 minutes to spare and 15654.
What does this mean for the story? A lot. I've passed through the tragedy and am in to the next phase which should be full of frustration but no more grand losses...well, unless you consider personal freedom sacrificed to a greater ideal a loss (as Andon does :)).
Another big change that anyone actually watching the stats might have noticed. The novel length is no longer at question. It's is well within the limits of editing into the 90k-120k range. If you're curious about how this came about, let me just say I'm falling on bad habits. Way back in the beginning, I believed myself to be an organic writer. It wasn't true, but that's what I believed.
The truth was that I worked on one project at a time with complete focus. This allowed me to maintain the outline in my head with very little loss. I still maintain most of my world building in my head...that's how I work and otherwise I believe things are written down which haven't been. However, I do keep outlines because they serve to remind me of which collection of world building I need to use for that particular story or scene. What had happened here was that I added a character thread (or rather one grew organically from a simple scene to show that Andon had no sense of propriety). All this time, I thought at least sketches of those added scenes existed in the outline and had expected them to get me clearly into the 90k range. So here I am with less than 25k to go on the novel according to my outline and it just didn't make sense. Scanned ahead and oops! Those scenes just weren't there. The scene count went up by quite a few and now the outline better reflects the story...again. Could it be I'm too distracted to write this novel? Nah :D.
And stats:
New Words: 6036 words
66 scenes
40 complete - 61% of the novel
26 Scenes remain
35049 Remaining word count
88970 Estimated length - with an average of 1348 words per scene.
53921 Current Total
What does this mean for the story? A lot. I've passed through the tragedy and am in to the next phase which should be full of frustration but no more grand losses...well, unless you consider personal freedom sacrificed to a greater ideal a loss (as Andon does :)).
Another big change that anyone actually watching the stats might have noticed. The novel length is no longer at question. It's is well within the limits of editing into the 90k-120k range. If you're curious about how this came about, let me just say I'm falling on bad habits. Way back in the beginning, I believed myself to be an organic writer. It wasn't true, but that's what I believed.
The truth was that I worked on one project at a time with complete focus. This allowed me to maintain the outline in my head with very little loss. I still maintain most of my world building in my head...that's how I work and otherwise I believe things are written down which haven't been. However, I do keep outlines because they serve to remind me of which collection of world building I need to use for that particular story or scene. What had happened here was that I added a character thread (or rather one grew organically from a simple scene to show that Andon had no sense of propriety). All this time, I thought at least sketches of those added scenes existed in the outline and had expected them to get me clearly into the 90k range. So here I am with less than 25k to go on the novel according to my outline and it just didn't make sense. Scanned ahead and oops! Those scenes just weren't there. The scene count went up by quite a few and now the outline better reflects the story...again. Could it be I'm too distracted to write this novel? Nah :D.
And stats:
New Words: 6036 words
66 scenes
40 complete - 61% of the novel
26 Scenes remain
35049 Remaining word count
88970 Estimated length - with an average of 1348 words per scene.
53921 Current Total
