Seeing Is Believing Update
Aug. 21st, 2007 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marfiskI haven't given an update on Seeing Is Believing for a while and there's a very good reason...I haven't had much to update :p.
However, I am actually nearing the end of this novel, which has taken much longer than I am comfortable with. I like to complete a novel in a 3-4 month span. This one is heading into its 6th month and I'd had high hopes of finishing it before the end of August so I could participate in another writing challenge for a new work. Honestly, I don't think that's going to happen without a scary push that'll exhaust me. Besides, I started Seeing with March Madness oh so long ago and it's taken me this long to get toward the end. If I start another novel now, what are my chances to participate in NaNo with a clean slate?
With regards to the story, I think I started writing before I had the shape of the novel fixed in my head, or maybe it's because this novel has fought me much of the way. I don't think this will turn out to be one of my more coherent drafts, though I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Still, I like the characters and I can feel for the push pull struggle Brian finds himself in, unsure what to believe and what to do as he works his way through the puzzles. With any luck, this will turn out to be a good, strong piece once I'm done editing it.
And stats:
New Words: 1,414 words
69 scenes
59 complete - 86% of the novel
10 Scenes remain
13,646 Remaining word count
94,157 Estimated length - with an average of 13,65 words per scene.
80,511 Current Total
However, I am actually nearing the end of this novel, which has taken much longer than I am comfortable with. I like to complete a novel in a 3-4 month span. This one is heading into its 6th month and I'd had high hopes of finishing it before the end of August so I could participate in another writing challenge for a new work. Honestly, I don't think that's going to happen without a scary push that'll exhaust me. Besides, I started Seeing with March Madness oh so long ago and it's taken me this long to get toward the end. If I start another novel now, what are my chances to participate in NaNo with a clean slate?
With regards to the story, I think I started writing before I had the shape of the novel fixed in my head, or maybe it's because this novel has fought me much of the way. I don't think this will turn out to be one of my more coherent drafts, though I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Still, I like the characters and I can feel for the push pull struggle Brian finds himself in, unsure what to believe and what to do as he works his way through the puzzles. With any luck, this will turn out to be a good, strong piece once I'm done editing it.
And stats:
New Words: 1,414 words
69 scenes
59 complete - 86% of the novel
10 Scenes remain
13,646 Remaining word count
94,157 Estimated length - with an average of 13,65 words per scene.
80,511 Current Total
