Well I did it (go me!), 50K words in a month. This is a task I’ve manged before, but never as a conscious act. Before, the few times I’ve been this productive, I’ve had a muse with a whip chasing me. This time I literally started completely cold. All I had was an idea that occurred to me on Oct 31, so I had no outlines laying about, no long-deferred story ideas that had been waiting for me. Thirty days later, I have fifty-thousand words, most of which I think are usable in some form.
Some things I might cut; dream sequences I wrote to get out of a block (though their back-story might survive a rewrite) and the smoking hot sex scene that may be out of place in a YA novel.
Now I let it cool for a bit and go on to a proposal I was working on before I started this. After that’s to bed, I think I may go back and finish this thing, once I outline the second half of it.
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Graham Clements · December 1, 2010 at 12:35 am
well done. 50,000 words in a year, that’s more my challenge.
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