Con Shirt post LOL

[marfisk]

So for those of you wondering, yes, I did start Con Shirt for the Labor of Love challenge at Forward Motion. I can't tell you what a wonderful feeling it was to do a single focus concentrated writing binge :). No, it wasn't remotely easy, and yes, I started dragging after the first day, but I still managed just under 34k in four days. How neat is that :)? And I might have gotten a sight closer to the 40k I was shooting for, but a couple of emergencies hit at the same time (the big one being the apparent collapse of Jatol) and my single focus went through a prism and shattered into a billion little color streams :).

So anyway, the story is now playing around at 69k and has 65 scenes all told. The scene length average is low mostly because I've got some really short snippets for scenes, especially in the villain's head. Yes, I can expose the reader to a brutal, pointless murder in 488 words, and maybe even make you feel sympathy for the corpse...or at least so it seemed for me.

This continues to be a stretch novel for me, but that hasn't made it impossible to write by any means. It'll be interesting to see how it all hangs together.

My favorite scenes? Between Rochelle and Mario hands down, though the scene with her sister comes close. It's the relationships that draw me on in this novel. At the same time, the horrifying scenes are quite powerful and cannot be written after dark so people who love horror might find something to appeal in this novel as well.

It's hard to accept the estimated length when I see all the threads that are weaving together to create this novel, and I'm still adding a scene here or there to flesh things out, but bizarrely, I think this will fall on the shorter end of my novel scale (excluding YA). I guess that's a good thing since I tend to go long...at least I hope so.

Anyway, the goal from this moment on is to get Con Shirt done with enough time to relax a bit before NaNo...for which I still don't know what I'm going to write.

And stats:
New Words: 0 writing words today
65 scenes
33 complete - 51% of the novel
32 Scenes remain
34073 Remaining word count
69211 Estimated length - with an average of 1065 words per scene.
35138 Current Total

Comments

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

34k is awesome! Great work!

[marfisk]

Thanks :). Still kinda dazed about it and it's saving my week because I can look back and say I wrote about 15k. Even though that was in the first two days of the week, it's still accomplishing something big :D.

:)

[crimson-angel.livejournal.com]

Congrats on so much progress!!!


CA

Re: :)

[marfisk]

Thanks :). It was the one shining moment in this crazy week.