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First for real Friday check-in: 1,379 words so far. Some family interference, but mostly summer cleaning. I've got a mountain of paperwork I need to individually sort through to determine what can be recycled and what has to be shredded. Fortunately this weekend should provide ample opportunity to punch out some words.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wMyg5Zwd6ebbqp8Krfem-Oo7-Z-dMtw3cfHVelXBz0I/edit?usp=sharing Story for 7/15, 1935 words. Ironic Twist fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Jul 16, 2015 |
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Jul 16, 2015 04:14
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3,123 words. Could be better. Wasted a lot of time.
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Jul 18, 2015 07:58
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Might as well do this now - 6544 words so far, goal met. 2nd draft (all written this month), magical realism (?) piece:  1st draft, fresh, fantasy:  Would anybody be interested in swapping crits? I'd love a crit of the second-draft piece, since I know the next draft needs a lot of change but I'm too close to the story to see where. Am happy to swap and crit a long-rear end story in return.
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Jul 20, 2015 11:28
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I'm still working on my goal, but I'll be happy to crit either of your pieces.
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Jul 20, 2015 12:07
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Thank you, painted bird! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z7X7JYrfarFlWRmUTfS6-BBL5YxNKoQ2V7wU4PWhT6I/edit?usp=sharing Hit 'request access' and I'll grant - don't want to make it public since I plan to send it off to a couple of mags once it's eventually done.
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Jul 20, 2015 12:32
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week two goal since i forgot to upload it last night
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Jul 21, 2015 02:08
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After tapping away at a keyboard for the past two hours, I managed to make my intermediate goal of 3000 words! And they're distinctly more coherent than last month's. 
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Jul 21, 2015 07:38
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About 1k but have set aside time to jam out the next 5k and submit.
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Jul 21, 2015 07:51
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I'm probably gonna eat the toxx this month. My laptop broke, and that's slashed my writing time totally to shreds.
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Jul 22, 2015 21:13
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:I'm probably gonna eat the toxx this month. My laptop broke, and that's slashed my writing time totally to shreds. If this were thunderdome I'd be at your throat. But it's not, so my sympathies, and I hope you find your way through this time without too much hassle
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Jul 22, 2015 23:37
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Story for 7/22: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BDNhlvw02PPjvBZWbn-Rb4hAcKnlo8u__blbVYfO0AE/edit?usp=sharing This is an old one I reworked from the ground-up.
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Jul 23, 2015 03:02
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Yeah it's not looking too good for me this month. Goodbye cruel forums, probably.
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Jul 23, 2015 04:19
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 12k words. gotta write 48k words in like.... a week. haha. hahahah. sad thing is I haven't totally admitted defeat yet.
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Jul 23, 2015 04:26
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crabrock posted:
i belief in u crab
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Jul 23, 2015 04:39
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6,402 words. Better get crackin'.
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Jul 25, 2015 08:00
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Finished my 5k word toxx with two stories. First one is this weird rear end train one idk wtf it is but i kinda like it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12QjZ3oGqozcjleCpJcvtY3a75QWXUvrU5zfuW_ByI9E/edit?usp=sharing - 3734 words Next one is this really stupid story that is extremely rough but also i kinda like it too. It was supposed to be this TD week's submission though I'm a judge. But I wrote it anyways and I went over the word count so I'm considering it non-TD: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lTNDPehztiQs76LXk29SAousQVwHYvWgNHVTEujXqPs/edit?usp=sharing - 1624 words Total Word Count: 5358 words. flerp fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Jul 27, 2015 |
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Jul 27, 2015 02:35
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I'm going to try to finish, but this month has been a shitshow. If I don't report by the deadline... I'll be back.
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Jul 27, 2015 16:33
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I'm going to have company the next few days so I won't be around much, so I'll just say goodbye now. Goodbye goons. Got 15k written, but it just wasn't enough! Life threw me some curveballs and unfortunately writing isn't a priority for me right now.
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Jul 29, 2015 06:49
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crabrock posted:I'm going to have company the next few days so I won't be around much, so I'll just say goodbye now. Goodbye goons. Got 15k written, but it just wasn't enough! Life threw me some curveballs and unfortunately writing isn't a priority for me right now.  I have right around 7K to write this week. I feel like I'm going to meet the toxx, but I'm going to have to do some terrible, terrible things to my novel in the process.
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Jul 29, 2015 07:01
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Story for 7/29: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1miNEnx9pfjUxi9Xlh5FYhjzp_c85IbvkCndaleo0ww4/edit?usp=sharing All told, it's 8,058 words total.
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Jul 30, 2015 04:16
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gently caress it, why not? I was kinda bailing because I have a YLLS toxx I was also about to fail hard, but then I had a fitness breakthrough and suddenly 1) I feel awesome 2) that's one toxx down 3) I don't wanna get banned Two days 8000 words This July, Muffin writes like he's got the devil breathing up his rear end in a top hat.
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Jul 30, 2015 05:13
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Write hard peoples I don't want to ban you all
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Jul 30, 2015 07:02
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I got 5 k on the, uh, 7th? This is where I've been sitting since then, out of utter lazy: 
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Jul 30, 2015 13:48
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I have only 3800 words to go, we're good
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Jul 30, 2015 13:53
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I haven't tallied yet but I feel pretty safe - 2 short stories, couple of chapters, each pulling in around 2k words. Going to finish up today's work and post screens tomorrow edit: posting proof: just over 10k. Definitely lagged in the middle of the month and cranked out some words in the last few days that will have to be revised. http://imgur.com/a/8RZ5p Canadian Surf Club fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jul 31, 2015 |
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Jul 30, 2015 19:15
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8K of pure garbage written in about three hours comin right up ding ding ding bitches the toxx fairy can't touch me
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Jul 31, 2015 05:42
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this is the worst poo poo I've ever written and it's all getting deleted as soon as the month is over 
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Jul 31, 2015 05:45
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are you sure that's writing? it looks like math.
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Jul 31, 2015 14:08
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 All words for the month in a single document. It was... close.
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Jul 31, 2015 20:01
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 National Guard annual training the next two weeks, still gonna  to get up to 75k for August thoughno specific word count for the month, just 80k on the novel period, so even if I cut anything from this month it's still 75k
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Jul 31, 2015 22:26
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/15CQyz9AecgDGdSEzLmrbeksBsCovNwXkzimj9sjKi9w/edit?usp=sharing 8326/8000, including a first version of an outline for a novel alongside a dozen or so sets of character notes. Probably not going to go in August; I want to get to where I'm actually writing the thing before going again and there's about a month or so worth of tinkering with the outline and figuring out characters before that can happen.
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Jul 31, 2015 22:46
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Almost forgot about this! Words: (~3.5k are Dome stuff, which I'm not counting)  Submissions: 
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Aug 1, 2015 03:36
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20K goal met. Novel starting count was 47,434. Current count is 59,673. Total words: 12,239.  And 8K words on an untitled for-fun project that I started working on because my novel was making me a little crazy. 
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Aug 1, 2015 04:40
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Bad Seafood posted:So earlier this month I made a GorfZaplen posted:A man goes to the funeral of his grandfather that he has never met, and finds that his grandfather is a bear. That is my prompt for you. 
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Aug 1, 2015 06:56
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Just about made it! I'm pretty happy with how much I've written this month. I mean, it's not like it's double-digit numbers or anything, but still. It's better than before.
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 That's just for my Long Walk Project, I had about 3k for another thing too. AFTER ACTION REPORT: I made heavy use of both Scrivener's tools and pomodoro timing (using http://www.tomighty.org/ which is a good app for that, thanks whoever linked me originally). I put more (see: any at all) effort into consciously constructing scenes instead of just typing ideas until things seemed like they were good to move on. This really helped me whittle poo poo down to "what am I trying to convey", which has always been a problem, instead of having a lot of meandering trash that never quite reaches a coherent point. We'll see if Clarkesworld notices my efforts to improve. If not I have one other publication lined up, and then I guess I can toss it on Amazon? What're people's angles for doing for that sort of "make-money-from-this" action these days?
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I think the general consensus for short fiction is "you don't." Basically, send it out to Clarkesworld / BCS / anyone else who will take a story that fits the length / genre you've got and pays at a pro rate. If nobody bites, then decide whether or not you want to try semi-pro markets, which basically equates to beer money. You can try self-pubbing, but I've never heard of individual stories getting any traction. Collections are hard enough to move as it is, especially by a single author. Basically, the outlook is pretty grim for making money off of short fiction beyond "hey I can order a pizza tonight I guess" unless you are Jhumpa Lahiri.
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 Only 5k and a bit of those were from this month but I can't figure out how to make Scrivener display the word count for only a particular section rather than the whole document.
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prooooooompt
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