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spanky1
01/06/20 11:05:56 AM
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I forget who all were in the previous topics except for @Romes187. December was not a productive month for me due to all the partying and benders I went on. I do feel like I could finish my book up in a good week of writing, though. What's your progress, Romes?

Writers post here to talk about junk you're writing currently
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Romes187
01/06/20 11:44:19 AM
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Nice

yeah Ive basically not touched my writing this holiday season. Im like 8 chapters away from my revision being done. Then Im gonna read it to my wife once in done with WoT book 1

tagging and hopefully will get motivated sooner than later for 2020. Still the break has been a nice refresher
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spanky1
01/06/20 8:49:54 PM
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Well I'm at 173k words. It seems like my old estimation that my book would be 200k is going to turn out exactly right. It is crazy how fast that number rises.
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Romes187
01/08/20 1:26:08 PM
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Still no time to get on my book...blah
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spanky1
01/08/20 2:10:29 PM
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Romes187
01/08/20 2:27:07 PM
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ikr

i feel ive been using all my brain power on work lately and im mentally exhausted by night. I used to edit during the day but now i am just working all day

hopefully we can sell this company soon and i can retire lmao yeah right
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spanky1
01/08/20 5:01:17 PM
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I'm basically in the middle of the emotional climax of my book, and I hate it. :|

Probably just a result of spending too much time with it. There's several different ways I could write it amd none of them are appealing to me now that I'm here.
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EverDownward
01/08/20 5:08:09 PM
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Oh, cool, there's a general!

Anyways, I've got multiple projects underway but only two with any real seriousness at the moment. One, being a Silent Hill 3 fanfic and the other being a short story about a boy that gets mugged on the eve of Christmas break at his university campus.

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Romes187
01/08/20 5:11:54 PM
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I was thinking about doing a story about a savant safe cracker that is employed by the FBI on the toughest cases where delicacy is required

but i feel like its probably been done. I listened to a podcast on safe cracking and it seems like it'd make a nice main character

no romes...focus on what you haven't finished yet.
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spanky1
01/08/20 8:23:10 PM
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EverDownward posted...
Oh, cool, there's a general!

Anyways, I've got multiple projects underway but only two with any real seriousness at the moment. One, being a Silent Hill 3 fanfic and the other being a short story about a boy that gets mugged on the eve of Christmas break at his university campus.

Finish the short story!

Romes187 posted...
I was thinking about doing a story about a savant safe cracker that is employed by the FBI on the toughest cases where delicacy is required

but i feel like its probably been done. I listened to a podcast on safe cracking and it seems like it'd make a nice main character

no romes...focus on what you haven't finished yet.

Finish the book!
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spanky1
01/08/20 8:24:05 PM
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spanky1
01/10/20 1:00:52 PM
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Imma try to finish my book this weekend wish me luck
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Romes187
01/10/20 1:17:44 PM
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still needing to get over this damn work hump to have any strength left later on in the day

plus baby number 2 is coming in a few weeks so that'll delay things a bit more i'd imagine (or cause me to get off my ass haha)

its officially been 6 months since I started this project

seems longer but that's not terrible for a 330 page book. Those first three months i managed like 65k words so that helped me get ahead. Editing has been a drag...creating is much more fun :D
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spanky1
01/10/20 1:37:03 PM
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Oh and by finish I mean first draft. :P

What's the word counts on y'alls projects this far?
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spanky1
01/11/20 6:03:43 PM
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Well I got hardcore drunk last so didn't write and have a hangover today so not writing.

really gud job eberybody keep up teh good writing work
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spanky1
01/12/20 7:18:38 PM
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I have one chapter left to write. A total of 131 chapters!
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WafflehouseJK
01/12/20 7:23:16 PM
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I finished the second draft of my first feature length screenplay a couple months ago, but ever since then I've been having a hard time going full steam on a new idea. I've had a couple I've started typing up the outline too, but nothing further than that.

I'm hoping once I move here in the next couple weeks I'll be able to get back focused on my writing again.

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spanky1
01/12/20 7:25:06 PM
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DuranOfForcena posted...
131 chapters, sounds epic, way to go!

is it chronologically the last chapter or did you skip a chapter you dreaded having to write and put off until the end like GRRM with the Red Wedding

It's chronologically the last chapter.
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spanky1
01/12/20 9:59:49 PM
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Done!

Final word count: 181,414

I'll just call it a 180k novel. I started in December of 2018, so it took me basically a little over a year to complete. There were a couple big chunks of that time where I didn't do anything, though. I'd say if I was actually working the whole time, it'd probably take me a total of about 6 months to write.

And now for the editing and second draft. :|
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Romes187
01/14/20 4:49:27 PM
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I have a plane flight tomorrow. I might try and just bang out the rest of my edits then.

Reading WoT is definitely a bad idea when I'm writing a quick thriller...I suddenly feel as though my descriptions are subpar and everything needs more fleshing out

but I think thats just Robert Jordan...and the genre
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spanky1
01/14/20 8:00:28 PM
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I definitely suggest not reading wheel of time if writing a thriller!
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EverDownward
01/19/20 10:47:38 PM
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Just started up a new story from an idea I had, and really surprised at how much I'm enjoying it.

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EverDownward
01/19/20 11:14:54 PM
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I might actually finish this tonight, that's how impressed I am with what I've put down so far and how its come out.

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EverDownward
01/20/20 12:21:21 AM
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I did it. Wow. I can't believe what I managed tonight. I'm really, really pleased.

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MrMallard
01/20/20 12:23:43 AM
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I've had the writing bug lately, but I don't have any space in my life where I can feel productive. Room's super cluttered, and there's no other rooms in the house where I feel comfortable.

I might write some fanfiction on my phone or something when I'm in bed.

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EverDownward
01/20/20 12:45:36 AM
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Any, uh, anybody wanna help me with a title? I'm done with the content, and then went over and proofread it. It's ready to go, but I can't think of a title. Could I get some help?

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deanshow
01/20/20 1:03:47 PM
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I currently wrote a few episodes for my audio drama that I'm producing, it's been a fun experience, to finally write ideas down and get hear my dialogue come to life

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deanshow
01/20/20 4:28:11 PM
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DuranOfForcena posted...
sounds like a cool project. is it like a podcast or an audiobook or something?
I dunno more like an old school radio drama. I can PM you what Ive done so far

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deanshow
01/21/20 1:28:09 PM
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DuranOfForcena posted...
@deanshow sorry i didn't get to your radio drama yesterday, i was too into Kingdom Come: Deliverance i guess. i'll try to get around to it today, but tbh what is that URL? it looks kinda sketchy lol. 1drv.ms? i've never heard of it.
Its 1 Drive, its for Windows its nit sketchy at all. Most of my actors send me their lines there

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spanky1
01/23/20 10:28:32 AM
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Thank you for your work mysterybumper lol

Almost halfway done with my revision job. When I was writing the end of the book, I started hating it because I had spent too much time with it. Now that im reading through it though it aint all that bad.
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