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Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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:toxx: for Feb


Sitting Here posted:

:toxx: for January

A short story draft between 5K and 10K words, to target BCS

Ditto. SH and I are gonna try to BCS together, pew pew.

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Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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Checking in as I’ve been traveling. My would-be BCS story currently sits at this length:



However I am pausing it to work a brawl story for Thunderdome with a 5k-10k limit, so it looks like I’ll end up writing two 5k-ish pieces this month.

Second story currently sits here, so as of today I’m within 20 words of my goal.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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My thing that was at 680 is now:



Goal - smashed!

Clocked in at just under 8k instead of 5k.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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:toxx: for this month:

- Finish at least one of the stories I started in Feb.
- One new story in the 4k-ish bracket.

I’m not super big on trying to guess exact word counts atm because my stuff’s been coming out shorter than I anticipate. So I’ll say minimum of 6k more words but the real toxx goal is two finished stories, regardless of wordcount.

I have a whole shelf of perfectly serviceable fiction. I write at a high enough level. I should have more credits than I do and the only reason I don’t is because I’m extremely lazy once I get my first drafts finished. This ends in 2019!

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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Anomalous Blowout posted:

:toxx: for this month:

- Finish at least one of the stories I started in Feb.
- One new story in the 4k-ish bracket.

I’m not super big on trying to guess exact word counts atm because my stuff’s been coming out shorter than I anticipate. So I’ll say minimum of 6k more words but the real toxx goal is two finished stories, regardless of wordcount.

I have a whole shelf of perfectly serviceable fiction. I write at a high enough level. I should have more credits than I do and the only reason I don’t is because I’m extremely lazy once I get my first drafts finished. This ends in 2019!

Accountability post.

Finished story #1.



Gonna let it percolate for a couple weeks, then edit the heezy out of it and try to sub it to some magazines.

Also, instead of working on short fiction I decided to go off the rails and start a new novel, because it felt like the right time. This has proven to be a good decision. I started this baby on the 8th of March and…



So I’ve hit over 20k for the month, which is… moderately astounding. I guess I do good work when my husband is away.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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Did this in addition to my 8600 word story:



March goal = smashed.

Gonna take a day to think about April goals since I have not been in a good brain space lately and I don’t want to shackle myself to a goal that’s gonna make me feel worse.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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Anomalous Blowout posted:

Did this in addition to my 8600 word story:



March goal = smashed.

Gonna take a day to think about April goals since I have not been in a good brain space lately and I don’t want to shackle myself to a goal that’s gonna make me feel worse.

Brain got worse and pretty much everything on my to-do list crashed and burned but the book is progressing nicely.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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:toxx: 60k total on book manuscript by end of month

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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:toxx:

15,000 words on novel by month’s end. Current word count is 50,400 because I cut a couple chapters last month.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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Anomalous Blowout posted:

:toxx:

15,000 words on novel by month’s end. Current word count is 50,400 because I cut a couple chapters last month.

Quoting here because I got sick and have totally stumbled on this.

Current word count is 56,693 and absolutely give me the stone cold stunner if I don’t deliver on my 15k. I gotta put in the time.

8707 words to go.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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Haven’t pasted it into the Scrivener doc yet but that’s another 3 chapters on Book 1 and 2 chapters in Book 2.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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:toxx: 20k on this project by end of month.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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Scrivener decided not to recognise my license after the last update so I can’t get a screenshot but I pulled off a whopping 21900 words.

Will pop a screen in when I can.

Starting a new job so only :toxx: for 10,000 Oct.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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I got over 12000 or so. Tech Gremlins are preventing my device from accessing both the internet AND other devices so have a photograph of my screen taken with someone else's phone. This was a collaborative effort.

https://postimg.cc/WdZb5g2C

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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:toxx: on my WIP, The Boy With the Broken Jaw. Currently at 74,500. Toxxing to either hit 100k or finish the book by end of Jan.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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That’s loving fantastic, dude.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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Dunno wtf happened to that screenshot but I am too lazy to fix it. 100k!

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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In for March for 10k baybees :toxx:

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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Forgot to post here, but:

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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:toxx: for 10k on my gangster book in June.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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I haven't forgotten my post but I had to move house and then un-move house and had a very chaotic sleepless week and I straight up do not know where my writing tablet is. I think I left it at somebody's house lol. Will provide screenshot this weekend but I got to 11k and some change plus did three Thunderdomes.

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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10k in January on a project that isn’t my serial or my novel revisions. :toxx:

Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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sebmojo posted:

blowout, did you make this nut?

I nutted so hard in Jan! I got 22k even.

:toxx: for 15k in April. Revising the novel in earnest now and I need to cut a bunch but also add a bunch. We’ll see if 15 gets us over the line.

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Anomalous Blowout
Feb 13, 2006

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It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars.

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Didn’t quite need 15k to get to the target I needed so I’m calling this one a win - after all, the goal was to revise my book so it’s shorter. :P





:toxx: to finish this draft in May.

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