I Worked on My WIP Today

#271 - August 17, 2010, 03:08 PM

You see, this is where I have a ridiculous problem. In the 1990's I wrote stories about a series of stories who not anthropomorphic, but fruit and my cousins as well as any other child loved them, which is why I dumped them. I got it into my mind that if children liked them, publishers would not go near them. They were ALL under 700 words and I have never been able to achieve that since. Besides, I was always terrified they would be too much like someone else's work.
It makes me want to BLARGH!

#272 - August 17, 2010, 05:18 PM

I snipped away at the first thirty pages of my WIP again.

I am refusing to look at my word count I do not want to know what it was or how much I cut. All I know is it is beginning to sound a lot better. Read a lot better. Oh heck, you know what I mean. Do I know what I mean?

#273 - August 17, 2010, 05:27 PM

Only a few lines today, but at least there's forward momentum.

#274 - August 17, 2010, 05:34 PM

Forward momentum is ALWAYS good! Especially over summer vacation.

#275 - August 17, 2010, 05:35 PM

I didn't work on my WIP today.

I critiqued a PB for a crit partner, tho. That should count as work. (for you too, Jen!!)

I guess I should say I didn't work on my WIP today...yet. I still have time!!

#276 - August 18, 2010, 01:57 AM

I didn't work yesterday either, because I was entertaining my father who was giving me his annual visit from Spain. We went to a wildlife reserve but the usual torrent of questions he asked about why I am not published made me want to

him. He is an English teacher, he should know better.
Today I am visiting my mother who has just returned from spreading my grandmother's ashes so I won't be writing today either.

Oh, and the cat is drinking my coffee again.
I might get around to scribbling a few lines on the bus out to my mum's house.
I know all of this should be in another thread, but it is all sort of related to my w.i.p. Perhaps you can forgive me and I might work tonight under dim light.

#277 - August 18, 2010, 06:56 AM

I know this thread is about *gasp* words, but as an author/illustrator I switch between the two creative focuses. So while no words were written yesterday I did rough out a pencil sketch and send it to an editor for approval. Does that count?

Waiting to hear back from crit partner on PB text before moving into dummy stage. I think I can take out a few more sentences by drawing what they say in the illustration.

#278 - August 18, 2010, 09:16 AM

hehe Lyon, I asked the same question and was told it counts!!

So I'm there with you. I have a dummy I'm working hard to finish, and two other mss that I'll be starting to dummy soon.

#279 - August 18, 2010, 09:32 AM

I did a little more smoothing and the story is really starting to take shape. Tomorrow I plunge ahead into a new chapter. I am so glad to have this thread to report my progress. It just gives me that extra push to make progress.

#280 - August 18, 2010, 09:44 AM

awesome, Michelle!

#281 - August 18, 2010, 10:50 AM

Hey Everyone,

I'm joining the club

even if I just write a sentence or two I will be happy. I have way too many excuses, some are legit, others are selfish (my DVR is both my enemy and my friend). This place is great!

#282 - August 18, 2010, 10:59 AM

Welcome, Michelle J.! Every sentence counts...even the ones you edit out.

#283 - August 18, 2010, 11:18 AM

Quote from: Artemesia on August 18, 2010, 09:16 AM

I have a dummy I'm working hard to finish, and two other mss that I'll be starting to dummy soon.

I know what this means, but it struck me so funny. All I could think of was I am the dummy in my mss.

#284 - August 18, 2010, 11:22 AM

Quote from: lizstraw on August 18, 2010, 11:18 AM

I know what this means, but it struck me so funny. All I could think of was I am the dummy in my mss.

OMG ME TOO!!

#285 - August 18, 2010, 12:00 PM

Quote from: Marissa Doyle on August 18, 2010, 10:59 AM

Welcome, Michelle J.! Every sentence counts...even the ones you edit out.

I'm so glad to hear that, because I delete a lot!

#286 - August 18, 2010, 04:26 PM

We all deserve a big hand, chocolate and your favorite beverage of choice.

I am happy I just sent in the final art for the spot art I was working on. *starts handing out warm brownies*

#287 - August 18, 2010, 04:47 PM

Five hundred and four words so far today. Now if I can only retrain myself not to keep checking email, etc. a dozen or more times a day, I might get more like 2500 done.

#288 - August 18, 2010, 05:55 PM

Oh, I am so there for warm brownies!!! can we put whipped cream and caramel sauce on top?

Go Marissa!! and um...ditto about the email, etc...

#289 - August 18, 2010, 07:09 PM

Surprisingly I was able to pump out 600 plus words today (a total fluke). Normally I'm in the same email boat as Marissa and Artemesia. And don't get me wrong I LOVE this forum but checking the new posts can be a but addictive as well.

#290 - August 18, 2010, 08:08 PM

Yes, I often struggle to get out 500 words at a time. But yesterday I did over 800! But I'm taking forever to finish the dang chapter I'm in (I'm doing the slash-and-burn first draft, so it's not like I'm even fine-tuning AT ALL. Still just figuring out how the heck to get from A to B to C in each of my scenes.

I put the cart before the horse and treated myself to chocolate already, having not yet written today. Will now try to be motivated by guilt!

#291 - August 18, 2010, 09:35 PM

OK - got about 805 words done tonight, finished that chapter.

Hope everyone's having a great writing night!

#292 - August 19, 2010, 06:31 AM

I got a severe dose of insecurity on Tuesday before I turned off the laptop and met my Dad. I looked at my w.i.p and thought have I really written that carp? Haven't started yet today, but maybe I will be a little more positive.

Apologies for moaning, I have severe insecurity issues currently. Unsupprotive family members don't help.

Artemesia,
Thanks for your support. Always appreciated. I took my work in with me to my coffee haunt and did some serious work which I was pleased with. I'm now at home & Moggy is beside me, looking severely jealous of my laptop. Actually, I have just had to bribe him off my lap with a treat. That should keep him busy for a while.

Looks like everyone is forging ahead. Well done.

#293 - August 19, 2010, 06:51 AM

I'm a new member of this club! I've waited to post here; I told myself that I'd do this once I'd managed a solid week of working on revising my current WIP. I hope I'll be able to do this regularly over the next month...

#294 - August 19, 2010, 08:53 AM

Hey Mary! Nice to see you here!!

Fiona, sorry about the off day.

Awesome Tinamarie and Michele J!

#295 - August 19, 2010, 09:26 AM

Atemesia - warm brownies with caramel sauce are the best, but I'll probably pass on the whip cream.

I can relate to the feelings of insecurity. Even as I work on my WIP, I ask myself if anyone other than me will want to read it. Part of this is the pacing. The story is slow to develop. I keep wondering how it will fare in today's fast-paced world.

That said, I finished the chapter I wanted to work on today, and it does exactly what it needs to. I rearranged a few scenes and they fell so neatly into place, you'd think I had planned it that way all along. I love it when that happens.

#296 - August 19, 2010, 09:36 AM

I like my brownies with coffe ice cream.

Hey Mary, good to see you here!

#297 - August 19, 2010, 12:18 PM

The kids are back in school which means I finally have time to write again. Oh, it feels so good to have that time be mine again. Today I got to work for 3 hours uninterrupted! I've been working on this story for a year now and the end is in sight. I can feel it in my bones. I will finish it this fall! Yay!

#298 - August 19, 2010, 04:01 PM

I revised the ms for the dummy I'm working on. I hadn't read it in entirety in a while since I've been doing the artwork, and I opened it yesterday and decided it needed an ax taken to it.

I think it's pretty tight now.

awesome, amykated! I'm eagerly awaiting the first day of school, which in Canada isn't until Sept 7th or 8th...gonna throw a party when they go back!!

#299 - August 19, 2010, 04:55 PM

I worked on mine today, on the deck with my laptop. I could barely see the screen which I found to be great because I got so many words down! Of course most are misspelled but it was a productive process.

#300 - August 20, 2010, 02:34 AM

Shanny,
You sound quite productive. Furry laptop is annoying me again but in between peeling him off the keyboard and trying to type, I think I have achieved a miserly fifty words.
That will change later. Plus, I think the end is near.

I've finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As you can probably gather, I am rather happy about it.

I Worked on My WIP Today

Discussion started on

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Tinamarie

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Tinamarie

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

MaryWitzl

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

amykated

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Re: I Worked on My WIP Today

Members: